Art History Faculty

BA, New York University. MA, MPhil, PhD, 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–

BA, Barnard College, MA, PhD Harvard University. Work has centered on issues of artistic interchange—in particular among Christians, Jews, and Muslims—and how groups form identities through art and architecture. Special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. Author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York and co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, among other books and publications. SLC, 2009–

BA, Brooklyn College. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and the 17th century, the history of architecture, and art and architectural theory; author of articles on Italian 16th-century drawings, French painting of the 17th century, and American 19th-century architecture. SLC, 1978–

MA, MPhil, PhD (forthcoming), Columbia University. Specialization in 20th-century African art, arts of the African diaspora, Islamic arts in Africa, and colonial period African art. Primary research based in Senegal, West Africa. Articles and reviews published in Critical Interventions, African Studies Review, and the H-Net for African Art. Additional academic interests include pre-Columbian and Latin American art. SLC, 2008–

BA, Yale University. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art. PhD, Columbia University. Teacher of art since 1945, covering intersections between modernist literature, philosophy, and visual and time-based arts. Special interest in art and technology. Author of Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings; co-author of Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts— Events, Objects, Documents; articles and reviews in Artforum, Grey Room, Modern Painters, and The Art Book. Editor-in-chief ex-officio of Art Journal. Recipient of 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. SLC, 2000–