Faculty

  • Rebecca Bedell

    Associate Professor of Art

    B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

    Wellesley alumna; research explores the relations between art and science, and the place of sentimentalism in American art.

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  • Patricia Gray Berman

    Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art

    B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

    Art historian specializing in the art and visual culture of the late 19 th, 20 th, and 21 st centuries.  Chair of the Art Department.

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  • Margaret Deutsch Carroll

    Professor of Art

    B.A., Barnard College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Primary research in the field of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, with specialized work on Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, and Rembrandt.

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  • Kimberly Cassibry

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.A., Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge); M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Art historian focusing on cross-cultural connections in the ancient Mediterranean

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  • Alice T. Friedman

    Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art; Professor of Art

    A.B., Radcliffe College; M.Phil., University of London; Ph.D., Harvard University

    Interested in building an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to architecture through research, teaching, and public education.

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  • Nikki A. Greene

    Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and Art

    B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware

    Art historian examining African American and African identities, the body, feminism, and music in twentieth-century and contemporary art.

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  • Candice Ivy

    Visiting Lecturer and Director of the Jewett Galleries, 2012- 2013

    B.F.A., Coker College; M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University

    Multi-media artist.

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  • Steffani Jemison

    Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art and Cole Fellowship Coordinator

    B.A., Columbia University in the City of New York; M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    Visual artist and writer whose media include acetate, projection, and text.

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  • David Kelley

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.A., Trinity College; M.F.A., University of California (Irvine)

    Artist doing work at the intersection of photography, performance, video, and critical studies.

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  • Heping Liu

    Heping Liu

    Associate Professor of Art

    B.A., Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages (China); M.A., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

    Asian art historian and specialist in Chinese painting of the Song dynasty (960-1279).

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  • Barbara Lynn-Davis

    Barbara Lynn-Davis

    Visiting Lecturer in Art

    B.A., Brown University; M.A., Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art; Ph.D., Princeton University

    Research focuses on how Venetians experienced, represented, and imagined the natural world.

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  • Meredith Martin

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Specialist in 18 th -century French art and architecture; also teaches and writes about 19 th -century European and contemporary art.

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  • Phyllis McGibbon

    Professor of Art

    B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    Visual artist working in a range of graphic media, i.e. prints, drawings, artist books, photomontages, and installations.

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  • Martha McNamara

    Director of New England Arts & Architecture Program

    Expert in New England art and architecture. Co-directs the architecture program.

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  • Salem Mekuria

    Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies ; Professor of Art

    B.A., Macalester College; M.A., San Francisco State University

    Independent film producer, writer, director and video installation artist who teaches film history and video production.

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  • Andrew Mowbray

    Visiting Lecturer in Art

    B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art

    A visual artist interested in the tangibility of materials, the aesthetics and functionality of objects and the performance process of their creation and use.

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  • Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

    Professor of Art

    B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.

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  • Jay Oles

    James Oles

    Senior Lecturer in Art

    B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

    Specialist in Latin American art, focusing on modern Mexican art and architecture, through museum as well as academic projects.

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  • Dave Olsen in studio

    David Olsen

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.F.A., University of Washington (Seattle); M.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    New media artist interested in collaborative and interactive experiences using both traditional and experimental visual techniques.

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  • Daniela Rivera

    Daniela Rivera

    Assistant Professor of Art

    M.F.A., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

    Visual artist doing work that attempts to understand the object quality of images.

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  • Ruth Rogers

    Curator of Special Collections

    B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Simmons College

    Book and manuscript studies, visual communication in all media, contemporary artists' books.

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  • Katherine Ruffin

    Katherine M. Ruffin

    Book Arts Program Director

    A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.F.A., University of Alabama

    Expert in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and and papermaking, combined with various aspects of the liberal arts.

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  • Betsy Lin Seder

    Visiting Lecturer

    B.A., Brown University; M.P.S., New York University; M.F.A., University of California (Irvine)

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  • Sergei Tsvetkov

    Sergei Tsvetkov

    Visiting Lecturer in Art

    M.F.A., The Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, former USSR

    Visual artist working in graphic media, i.e. prints, drawings, mixed media and painting.

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  • Margaret Rose Vendryes

    Margaret Vendryes

    Visiting Lecturer in Art

    B.A. Amherst College; M.A. Tulane University; Ph.D., Princeton University

    Independent scholar and artist. Visual art and writing are focused on African Diaspora identities and representations.

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  • Francine Weiss

    Francine Weiss

    Visiting Lecturer

    B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Boston University

    Wellesley alumna; art historian specializing in the history of photography, American art, and visual culture of the 20th century.

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Faculty Emerita

  • Lilian Armstrong

    Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art, Emerita

    B.A. Wellesley College, M.A. Radcliffe College, Ph.D. Columbia University

    Retired from teaching, but continues work on book history, focusing on Italian Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books.

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