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History of Art and Architecture

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
1234 Arts Building
Telephone: (805) 893-2417
Undergraduate Advising: ug-arthi@arthistory.ucsb.edu
Graduate Advising: gd-arthi@arthistory.ucsb.edu
Website: www.arthistory.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Laurie Monahan


 
Faculty
Heather Badamo, PhD, University of Michigan, Associate Professor (East Christian and Byzantine Art; Global Middle Ages; Mediterranean studies; visual manifestations of exchange)
Alicia Boswell, PhD, University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor (Pre-Columbian art and archaeology; cultural heritage; conservation; cultural landscapes; culture contact; frontiers; metalworking and ancient technology; craft production)
Swati Chattopadhyay, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (modern architecture and urbanism; British empire; postcolonial and critical theory)
Nuha Khoury, PhD, Harvard University, Associate Professor (Islamic art and architecture; medieval Islamic iconography; modern Arab art; critiques of the field)
Maria Lumbreras, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor (16th- and 17th-century Spanish and Latin American art; interactions of art, science, and archaeology; early modern art theory; historiographies of art)
Mark Meadow, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (15th-, 16th- and 17th-century Northern European art; histories of rhetoric and collecting)
Laurie Monahan, PhD, Harvard University, Associate Professor (20th-century and contemporary European art and American art, feminist theory, continental theory, sexuality and representation; visual culture)
Claudia Moser, PhD, Brown University, Associate Professor (Roman archaeology; Roman Republican sanctuaries; altars; ancient rituals; cults and burial practices)
Sylvester Ogbechie, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (classical African art; modern and contemporary African art; arts of the African diaspora; contemporary African visual culture; African film; theory and methodology of art history; cultural patrimony research)
Carole Paul, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Continuing Senior Lecturer (17th- and 18th-century art and architecture in Italy; history of collecting and museums)
Gabriel Ritter, Associate Professor (Contemporary art; Japanese art (1868 to present); Global Surrealism; Museum Studies)
Jenni Sorkin, PhD, Yale, Professor (Contemporary art; material culture, craft, and design; art criticism; feminist historiographies and theory; art school pedagogies; queer culture and theory)
Peter Sturman, PhD, Yale University, Professor (Early to modern Chinese painting and calligraphy; Japanese art) Joint Appointment: EALCS
Volker M Welter, PhD, University of Edinburgh, Professor (modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism since the 19th-century, history and theory of architecture)
Jeremy White, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Continuing Senior Lecturer (modern landscape, urbanism and the architecture of the United States)
Richard Wittman, PhD, Columbia University, Associate Professor (early modern and modern architecture, theory and town planning)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Ann Jensen Adams, PhD, Harvard University
C Armi, PhD, Columbia University
Ann Bermingham, PhD, Harvard University
Herbert Cole, PhD, Columbia University
Mario Del Chiaro, PhD, UC Berkeley
Ramon Favela, PhD, University of Texas, Austin
Ulrich Keller, PhD, University of Munich
Jeanette Peterson, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Edward Robertson, PhD, Yale University
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, PhD, City University of New York
Miriam Wattles, PhD, New York University
Fikret Yegul, PhD, Harvard University

 
Affiliated Faculty
Gerardo Aldana, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Bhaskar Sarkar, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Sven Spieker, DPhil (Germanic and Slavic Studies)