Full Directory
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Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- cary.adams@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
Ashenfelder, Stephanie
- Director, Digital Media Studies
Academic Director, Studio Arts
- stephanie.ashenfelder@rochester.edu
- 206 Morey Hall
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Berlo, Janet Catherine
- Professor Emerita
- jberlo@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 513 Morey Hall
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
Bollmann, Marc
- Senior Library Assistant, Art and Music Library
- mbollmann@library.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9277
- G136 Rush Rhees Library
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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
- peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
- 516 Morey Hall
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
Collier, Martin
- Administrator, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- marty.collier@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7451
- 506 Morey Hall
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Duro, Paul
- Professor Emeritus
- paul.duro@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 514 Morey Hall
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
- jenck@ur.rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
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
- sfrontz@library.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4476
- G135 Rush Rhees Library
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Gennari, Carolyn
She/Her/They/Them
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Interests: Archives, memory, and historiography; Museum studies; Interdisciplinary art and artistic research; Community art practices; Site-specificity; Artist as curator; Sculpture; Video arts and projection; Performance and the body; Visual culture, perception, and histories of media
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Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor of Art History
- rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
- 506A Morey Hall
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
Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
- 521 Morey
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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Layton, Heather
- Associate Professor of Art
- heather.layton@rochester.edu | (585) 755-6819
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art
Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne
- Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
- evelyne.leblanc-roberge@rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
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
Leonard, Michael
- Studio Arts Manager, Sage Art Center
- michael.leonard@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3730
- 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
- lmaier@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 506 Morey Hall
Metté, Megan
she/her/hers
- Art New York Associate Director
Departmental Curator
Lecturer
- megan.mette@rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
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Remmel, Rachel
- Assistant Dean and Director, Teaching Center
- rachel.remmel@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4367
- 208A Lattimore Hall
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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Sayadi, Nader
he/him/his
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- nsayadi@ur.rochester.edu
- 522 Morey Hall
Interests: Themes: Power and agency; Modes of production and consumption; Transmission of knowledge; Orientalism; Nationalism, and Historiography.; Topics: Architecture and city (patronage, spaces of manufacturing, landscapes of borderlands); Pre-industrial manufacturing (know-how of making things (mainly textiles), chaîne opératoire, and their social relations); Textiles and dress (social and political implications of fibers and dyes, weaving techniques and technologies, design, and pattern making).; Contexts: West and South Asia, Islamic World, Indian Ocean; 17th- 19th centuries.
Seiberling, Grace
- Associate Professor
- grace.seiberling@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4169
- 523 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
Shin, Mizin
- Assistant Professor of Art
- mshin13@ur.rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
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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Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
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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Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
- 517 Morey Hall
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
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Xu, Tingting
- Assistant Professor of Art History
- tingtingxu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0169
- 519 Morey Hall
Interests: Early Chinese photography and media studies; Theories and historiography of Chinese painting; Formats of East Asian pictorial arts in cultural exchange; Antiquarianism and visual technology; Folding and folds; The unspoken and the unspeakable