Faculty


                
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                Miriam Basilio
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.
 
Kathleen Weil-Garris  Brandt
Professor
Major Interests: Italian Renaissance art and culture.
 

                
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                Mosette Broderick
Clinical Associate Professor
Major Interests: 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism, America and England, 19th century social history, collecting history, and Fifth Avenue.
 

                
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                Finbarr Barry Flood
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities; Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History
Major Interests: Art and architecture of the Islamic world; Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture; Theories and practices of image-making; Technologies of representation; Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory; and Orientalism.
 

                
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                Dennis V Geronimus
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Renaissance art, crosscurrents between the art of Italy and Northern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
 

                
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                Pepe Karmel
Associate Professor; Chair
Major Interests: Picasso, Pollock, Cubism, Minimalism, Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, Art and Perception
 

                
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                Carol Krinsky
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Major Interests: 20th century architecture and planning; 15th century painting.
 

                
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                Chao-Hui Jenny Liu
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Major Interests: Tang (618-907 A.D.) Chinese art and archaeology, Art of East Asia, Art and Ritual, Silk Road Art and Archaeology
 

                
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                Elizabeth  C Mansfield
Associate Professor
Major Interests: 18th- and 19th-century European art; history of modernism; art historiography.
 

                
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                Jeanne A. Nugent
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Major Interests: 20th- and 21st-century American and European art, theory and criticism; history of photography.
 

                
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                Louise Rice
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; history of prints and print culture.
 

                
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                Shelley Rice
Arts Professor
Major Interests: Photography: History, Criticism and Theory.
 

                
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                Jon Ritter
Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow of Art History
Major Interests: 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism; public art; history of city planning and public space.
 

                
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                Julia Robinson
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Contemporary art, curatorial practices, and criticism. Score and language-based artistic strategies, performance, and the changing functions of artist and media in the present.
 

                
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                Ann Macy Roth
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology
Major Interests: Ancient Egyptian society and religion, particularly in the early periods; their expression in monumental architecture and art, including questions of gender, royalty, wealth, and rank; and the archaeology of cemeteries and the rituals and other activities that occurred there.
 

                
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                Kenneth Silver
Professor
Major Interests: French and American twentieth-century art.
 

                
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                Kathryn A. Smith
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Early Christian and medieval art; illustrated Gothic manuscripts; the roles of images in lay religion
 

                
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                Edward J Sullivan
The Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art; Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History
Major Interests: Art of Latin America, 19th, 20th century art of the Iberian Peninsula, 17th/20th century, Caribbean art.
 

Affiliated Faculty


                
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                Joan Breton Connelly
Professor; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus
Major Interests: Greek sculpture and vase painting, Greek myth and religion, Cypriot archaeology, the Hellenistic East.
 
Boris Groys
Professor
 

                
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                Eve Meltzer
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: contemporary art history, theory, and criticism;photography, material culture, psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism, and phenomenology
 
Jordana Mendelson
Major Interests: Early twentieth-century visual culture in Spain
 

                
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                Fred R. Myers
Professor; Chair
Major Interests: Research with Aboriginal people in Australia, concentrating on Western Desert people. He is interested in exchange theory and material culture, the intercultural production and circulation of culture, in contemporary art worlds, in identity and personhood, and in how these are related to theories of value and practices of signification.