Faculty
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Lamia Balafrej
Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., M.A., Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and University of Paris; Ph.D., University of Provence
Art historian working on the art and architecture of the Islamic world and their interweaving with global art history.
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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.
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Margaret D. 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
Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Art historian examining African and African American identities, music, the body, and feminism in 20th century and contemporary art.
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Candice Ivy
Visiting Lecturer and Director of the Jewett Galleries, 2013- 2014
B.F.A., Coker College; M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University
Multi-media artist.
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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
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
Visiting Lecturer in Art
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Williams College; 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
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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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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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
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 R. Rogers
Curator of Special Collections
B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Simmons College
Book and manuscript studies, text and image, contemporary artists' books.
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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)
Faculty Emerita
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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.
