Faculty

Patricia Gray Berman

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.

Kimberly Cassibry

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

Nikki A. Greene

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.

Steffani Jemison

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.

Heping Liu

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).

Meredith Martin

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.

Martha McNamara

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

Andrew Mowbray

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.

James Oles

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.

Daniela Rivera

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

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

Katherine M. Ruffin

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.

Sergei Tsvetkov

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.