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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.

	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.

	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.

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

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

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

	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

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

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

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

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

	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.

	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.

	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.

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

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

	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

	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

	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

	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.