The Steering/Core Committee, appointed by the Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, serves in an advisory capacity to the Director on a variety of matters including curriculum design, general policy, and students' progress.

The 2007-08 Committee includes:

Janet Catherine Berlo
Professor of Art History

brlo@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4168
305 Morey Hall

Douglas Crimp
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

douglas.crimp@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5622
518 Morey Hall

Tom DiPiero
Professor of French/Visual and Cultural Studies

tdip@troi.cc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4253
408A Lattimore Hall

Paul Duro
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

duro@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9262
425 Morey Hall

Robert Foster
Professor of Anthropology

rftr@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
445 Lattimore Hall

Interests: social theory, nationalism, globalization, mass consumption, mass media, commodity networks, material culture.

Rachel Haidu
Assistant Professor of Art History

rhaidu@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
421 Morey Hall

Interests: Postwar American and European Art, History of Photography

John Michael
Professor of English/Visual and Cultural Studies

john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4974
417 Morey Hall

A. Joan Saab (Chair of the Committee)
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

jsaab@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
423A Morey Hall

Sharon Willis
Professor of French/Visual and Cultural Studies

swls@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7894
414 Lattimore Hall