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Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Adams, Cary

  • Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices

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Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

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Ashenfelder, Stephanie

  • Director, Digital Media Studies
    Academic Director, Studio Arts

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Berlo, Janet Catherine

  • Professor Emerita

Interests: Native American art and visual culture; The politics of representation; Museum studies and critique; Quilt, craft, and “folk art” ; History and historiography; Issues of materiality both old and new

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Blunt, Nile K.

  • Assistant Professor of Curatorial Practice
  • McPherson Director of Academic Programs, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

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Interests: Museum studies; museology; arts education; curatorial practice; issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within cultural institutions; the material and visual cultures of Early America and the British Atlantic World; and 17th and 18th century European and American decorative arts.

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Bollmann, Marc

  • Senior Library Assistant, Art and Music Library

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Carl Chiarenza

Chiarenza, Carl

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Artist in Residence

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Peter Christensen

Christensen, Peter

  • Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
    Professor of Art and Art History
  • Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
    Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities

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Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities

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Collier, Martin

  • Administrator, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

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Duro, Paul

  • Professor Emeritus

Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing

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Enck, Joshua

  • Lecturer

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Interests: Abstract sculpture; architectural design and drawing; furniture design and woodworking; metalworking; recent Fulbright Scholar in India researching traditional metal vessel making techniques

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Frontz, Stephanie

  • Art Librarian and Head of the Art/Music Library

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Haidu, Rachel

  • Associate Professor of Art History

Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies

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Heuer, Christopher P.

  • Professor of Art History

Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement

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Heather Layton

Layton, Heather

  • Associate Professor of Art

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Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art

Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge

Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne

  • Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media

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Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents

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Leonard, Michael

  • Studio Arts Manager, Sage Art Center

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Maier, Lorna

  • Administrative Assistant, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
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Metté, Megan

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  • Art New York Program and River Campus Gallery Manager

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Rachel Remmel.

Remmel, Rachel

  • Assistant Dean and Director, Teaching Center

Interests: Architectural history; museum studies; 19th-century US art history and history; social power; institutional history; building types such as schools and houses; artistic practice; the construction of the categories of art and artist; theories about the formative power of architecture

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Saab, A. Joan

  • Susan B. Anthony Professor
    Professor of Art and Art History
    Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
  • Vice Provost of Academic Affairs
    Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences & Engineering

Interests: Twentieth-century American cultural history; media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values

Grace Seiberling

Seiberling, Grace

  • Associate Professor

Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums

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Shin, Mizin

  • Assistant Professor of Art

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Interests: Printmaking and Digital Media; Immersive Installation; Emerging techniques in contemporary printmaking; Interdependency of societal systems; Chaos Theory; Phenomena network; Emergence

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Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

  • Associate Professor
  • Chair, Department of Art and Art History

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Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.

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Sharon Willis

Willis, Sharon

  • Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
    Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature