Faculty in Art History
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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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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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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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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 R. Rogers
Curator of Special Collections
B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Simmons College
Book and manuscript studies, text and image, contemporary artists' books.
