Faculty in Art History

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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