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Teaching Faculty
Janet Catherine Berlo
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
brlo@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4168
305 Morey HallInterests: Native American art history and museum representation of Native peoples; Plains Indian drawings; Native women and art; history of American quilts.
Elizabeth Cohen
Associate Professor of Art
elizabeth.cohen@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5998
Sage Art CenterInterests: Contemporary art and video production; critical theory; experimental film; three-dimensional media; new media production.
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
In residence fall semesters onlyInterests: Contempoary art, criticism, and theory; sexuality and representation.
Emile Devereaux
Assistant Professor of Art
emile.devereaux@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5566
Sage Art CenterInterests: Digital media production and theory; gender, technology and representation; 3-D computer modeling and animation.
Paul Duro
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
duro@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9262
425 Morey Hall
Interests: Art institutions in France; theory and practice of imitation in art; history of painting and hierarchy of genres.Rachel Haidu
Assistant Professor of Art History
rhaidu@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
421 Morey HallInterests: Postwar American and European Art, history of photography.
Heather Layton
Lecturer in Art
hlayton@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3832
Sage Art Center
Interests: Contemporary art, painting, art as activism; storytelling, magical realism, Mexican religious art; democratic dialogue, intrinsic motivation.A. Joan Saab
Associate Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
jsaab@mail..rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
423A Morey HallInterests: Twentieth-century American history, media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture.
Grace Seiberling
Associate Professor of Art History
Undergraduate Advisor for Art History
seib@troi.cc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4169
422 Morey HallInterests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; early British photography; museums.
Marni Shindelman
Assistant Professor of Art
marni.b.shindelman@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5567
Sage Art CenterInterests: Photography, digital art, urban legends and chain e-mail, gender and identity theory, and women in contemporary art.
Allen C. Topolski
Associate Professor of Art
Chair of the Department of Art and Art History
Undergraduate Advisor for Studio Art
atop@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4287
424A Morey Hall
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes.David Walsh
Professor of Art History
dwls@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4285
414 Morey HallInterests: Monastic art and archaelogy; medieval ecclesiastical architecture; the medieval house; the transmission of information in the Middle Ages; medieval church furniture; antiquarian views of medieval architecture in England.
Sharon Willis
Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
swls@mail.rochester.edu| (585) 273-5621
517 Morey HallInterests: feminist theory, film theory and visual analysis, cultural studies, modern French literature and literary theory.
Professor Emeritii
Carl Chiarenza
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History
Artist in Residence
katchi@rochester.rr.com | (585) 442-1751
http://homepage.mac.com/chiarenza/Menu2.htmlDiran K. Dohanian
Professor Emeritus of Art HistoryArch Miller
Professor Emeritus of ArtMichael Venezia
Professor Emeritus of Art
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