Art History Faculty
David Castriota
Courses: Christianity and the Roman Empire, Christianity and the Roman Empire, Ancient Albion–Art and Culture in the British Isles from Stonehenge to the Viking Invasions
B.A., New York University. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interests in Greek art of the classical and Hellenistic periods, Roman art of the late republic and early empire, and the art of prehistoric Europe; author of Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens, The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art, and a critical commentary on Alois Riegl’s Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament; editor of Artistic Strategy and the Rhetoric of Power: Political Uses of Art from Antiquity to the Present; recipient of fellowships from the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Early Christian and Byzantine Art and the Society of Fellows of Columbia University and of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. SLC, 1992-Ruben Cordova
Courses: Early Modern Art, Mexico: Art and Culture
B.A., Brown University. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Special interests include Mexican and Chicano art, popular traditions such as Day of the Dead in Mexico and the U.S., Primitivism in 20th Century Art, and Cubism. Has curated or co-curated 16 exhibitions treating Latin American, Mexican, Latino, and U.S. art. Articles published in Artlies and Aztlán, entries in Encyclopedia Latina, catalogue essays on Latin American and Chicano art. Forthcoming work includes The Con Safo Art Group and the Politics of South Texas. Grants include NEH. SLC, 2007-
Eva Diaz
Courses: Critical Models in Art and Theory, 1965 to the Present
Lee MacCormick Edwards
Courses: Revolution to Romanticism: Art in the Era of Napoleon
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interest in the art and social history of the nineteenth century; author of Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910 and Herkomer: A Victorian Artist; articles published in The Burlington Magazine, Arts Magazine, The Art Book, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Studies Bulletin, and The American Art Journal; author of numerous catalogue essays and contributor to The New Dictionary of National Biography, The Dictionary of Art, and Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia.Henry-Russell Hitchcock Best Book Award; Visiting Mellon Fellow, Yale Center for British Art. SLC, 2000-
Joseph C. Forte
Courses: World Architecture and Urban Design: 1945-Present: Postwar, Postmodern, Post-Theory, The Art and Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
B.A., Brooklyn College. M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interest in art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and the seventeenth century, the history of architecture, and art and architectural theory; author of articles on Italian sixteenth-century drawings, French painting of the seventeenth century, and American nineteenth-century architecture. SLC, 1978-
Michelle Gilbert
Courses: African Art: Images of Transformation
B.A., University of California-Los Angeles. M.A., Northwestern University. M.A., New York University. Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Special interest in African art and architecture; religion, political power, and divine kingship in Ghana; author of Hollywood Icons, Local Demons: Popular Art in Ghanaand articles on royal art, popular theatre, religious pluralism, and chieftaincy in Akuapem, Ghana. Fellowships from NEH, Mellon, SSRC, CSWR Harvard Divinity School, and Overseas Ministries Study Center for Mission History. SLC, 2004-
Judith Rodenbeck
Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History
Courses: First-Year Studies: Thinking Art/Works
B.A., Yale University. B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art. Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interests in art since 1945; in intersections between modernist literature, philosophy, and the visual arts; and in intermedia. Currently serving as editor-in-chief of the Art Journal.SLC, 2000-
