History of Art Faculty and Staff

DEPARTMENT FACULTY

NAME	FIELD OF EXPERTISE	DEGREE	EMAIL	INFO
Babaie, Sussan Assistant Professor	Islamic Art and Architecture	Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NY.
Biro, Matthew Associate Professor	Modern and contemporary	Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Bissell, R. Ward Professor	Baroque painting and sculpture	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Brusati, Celeste Professor	Renaissance and Baroque	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Carr, Kevin Assistant Professor	Japanese Visual Culture	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Doris, David Assistant Professor	African and Visual Cultures	Ph.D., Yale University
Francis, Jacqueline Assistant Professor	Twentieth-century African-American and American	Ph.D., Emory University
Gazda, Elaine Professor	Ancient Roman and Graeco-Roman	Ph.D., Harvard University
Herwitz, Daniel Professor	European Avant-Gardes	Ph.D., University of Chicago
Holmes, Megan Associate Professor	Italian Renaissance	Ph.D., Harvard University
Lay, Howard Associate Professor	Modern art and nineteenth-century French painting	Ph.D., Harvard University
Nair, Stella Assistant Professor	Latin American Visual Cultures	Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley
Nevett, Lisa Associate Professor	Classical art and archaeology	Ph.D., University of Cambridge (U.K.).
Powers, Martin Professor	Warring States through Song dynasty Chinese art	Ph.D., University of Chicago
Potts, Alex Chair, Professor	Modern Sculpture	Ph.D., University of London
Root, Margaret Professor	Ancient Near East and Persian	Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Sears, Elizabeth Professor	Medieval manuscript illumination	Ph.D., Yale University
Siegfried, Susan Professor	Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French Painting	Ph.D., Harvard University
Silverman, Raymond Professor	Africa and Museum Studies	Ph.D., University of Washington
Simons, Patricia Associate Professor	Renaissance and Baroque art, gender studies	Ph.D., University of Melbourne
Thomas, Thelma Associate Professor	Medieval early Byzantium and late Roman	Ph.D., New York University / Institute of Fine Arts
Timmermann, Achim Assistant Professor	Medieval art and architecture	Ph.D., University of London (Courtauld Insitute of Art)
Willette, Thomas Lecturer III	Italian Renaissance and Baroque	Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Zurier, Rebecca Associate Professor	Modern nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art and architecture	Ph.D., Yale University

AFFILIATED FACULTY

NAME	FIELD OF EXPERTISE	DEGREE	EMAIL	INFO
Beach, Milo Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution	Indic and Islamic	Ph.D., Harvard University
Genne, Beth Associate Professor, School of Music	Nineteenth- and twentieth-century collaborative dance, cinema, music, scenic art productions	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Herbert, Sharon Professor and Chair, Classical Studies Professor, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology	Greek and Hellenistic Near East archaeology	Ph.D., Stanford University
Senkevitch, Anatole Associate Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning	Modern architecture and the Avant-Garde theory and history	Ph.D., Cornell University
Sharf, Elizabeth Horton Lecturer, History of Art	Japanese medieval and early modern art	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Soo, Lydia Associate Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning	Renaissance Architecture and Baroque Architecture	Ph.D., Princeton University
Steward, James Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art	Eighteenth-century European art	D.Phil., Oxford University

EMERITI FACULTY

NAME	FIELD OF EXPERTISE	DEGREE	INFO	EMAIL
Arnheim, Rudolf Professor	Psychology of the Arts	Ph.D., University of Berlin
Edwards, Richard Professor	Chinese art	Ph.D., Harvard University
Eisenberg, Marvin Professor	Medieval and Renaissance art	Ph.D., Princeton University
Forsyth, Ilene H. Professor	Early medieval art, with emphasis on the liturgical art	Ph.D., Columbia University
Isaacson, Joel Professor	Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century European art, particularly Realism through Cubism	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Kirkpatrick, Diane Professor	Modern twentieth-century art, photography, and new media	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Miesel, Victor Professor	Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century art	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Sawyer, Charles Professor	Modern Art	L.H.D., Amherst College, Clark University
Spink, Walter Professor	Indian art, particularly early Buddhist and Hindu architecture, sculpture, and painting	Ph.D., Harvard University
Whitman, Nathan Professor	Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture	Ph.D., Harvard University

STAFF

NAME	POSITION	EMAIL
Bjork, Sally	Supervisor, Media Services
Duff-Silverman, Mary	Head of Visual Resources Collections
Fitch, Debbie	Student Services Coordinator
Gjukich, Mark	Media Services Specialist
Hobson, Chris	Academic Secretary III, History of Art, Main Office
Li, Susan	Project Coordinator
Mann, Liz	Department Administrator, History of Art, Main Office
Musolff, Meghan	Assistant Coordinator, Visual Resources Collections
Ramsey, Allison	Teaching Collections Assistant
Raab, Karen	Financial Clerk
Roper, Camilla	Secretary to Chair, History of Art, Main Office
Wolf, Kim	Student Services Assistant