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    Berlo, Janet Catherine

    • Professor Emerita
    Office Location
    513 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-9249

    Interests: Native American art and visual culture; The politics of representation; Museum studies and critique; Quilt, craft, and “folk art” ; History and historiography; Issues of materiality both old and new

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    Bollmann, Marc

    • Senior Library Assistant, Art and Music Library
    Office Location
    G136 Rush Rhees Library
    Telephone
    (585) 275-9277

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  • Carl Chiarenza

    Chiarenza, Carl

    • Professor Emeritus
    • Artist in Residence
    Telephone
    (585) 442-1751
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  • Peter Christensen

    Christensen, Peter

    • Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
      Professor of Art and Art History
    • Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
      Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
      Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
    Office Location
    212C Rush Rhees Library
    Telephone
    (585) 276-7173
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    Website

    Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities

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    Collier, Martin

    • Administrator, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
    Office Location
    506 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-7451

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    Enck, Joshua

    • Lecturer
    Office Location
    Sage Art Center
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    Website

    Interests: Abstract sculpture; architectural design and drawing; furniture design and woodworking; metalworking; recent Fulbright Scholar in India researching traditional metal vessel making techniques

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    Gennari, Carolyn

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    • Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
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    Interests: Archives, memory, and historiography; Museum studies; Interdisciplinary art and artistic research; Community art practices; Site-specificity; Artist as curator; Sculpture; Video arts and projection; Performance and the body; Visual culture, perception, and histories of media

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    Haidu, Rachel

    • Associate Professor of Art History
    Office Location
    506A Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-4112

    Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies

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    Heuer, Christopher P.

    • Professor of Art History
    Office Location
    521 Morey
    Telephone
    (585) 276-6052

    Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement

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  • Rachel Remmel.

    Remmel, Rachel

    • Assistant Dean and Director, Teaching Center
    Office Location
    208A Lattimore Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-4367

    Interests: Architectural history; museum studies; 19th-century US art history and history; social power; institutional history; building types such as schools and houses; artistic practice; the construction of the categories of art and artist; theories about the formative power of architecture

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    Sayadi, Nader

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    • Visiting Assistant Professor
    Office Location
    522 Morey Hall

    Interests: Themes: Power and agency; Modes of production and consumption; Transmission of knowledge; Orientalism; Nationalism, and Historiography.; Topics: Architecture and city (patronage, spaces of manufacturing, landscapes of borderlands); Pre-industrial manufacturing (know-how of making things (mainly textiles), chaîne opératoire, and their social relations); Textiles and dress (social and political implications of fibers and dyes, weaving techniques and technologies, design, and pattern making).; Contexts: West and South Asia, Islamic World, Indian Ocean; 17th- 19th centuries.

  • Grace Seiberling

    Seiberling, Grace

    • Associate Professor
    Office Location
    523 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-4169

    Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums

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    Shin, Mizin

    • Assistant Professor of Art
    Office Location
    Sage Art Center
    Web Address
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    Interests: Printmaking and Digital Media; Immersive Installation; Emerging techniques in contemporary printmaking; Interdependency of societal systems; Chaos Theory; Phenomena network; Emergence

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    Slobogin, Christine

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    • Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics
      Joint Appointment in Art and Art History
    Office Location
    G-7011C in Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, URMC
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    Interests: The medical humanities; Visual culture of plastic and reconstructive surgery; Medical photography and photographic anonymity; Cartoons and visual humor; Ethics and emotions in medical visual culture; The body and the museum

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  • Allen Topolski

    Topolski, Allen

    • Associate Professor
    • Chair, Department of Art and Art History
    Office Location
    Sage Art Center
    Telephone
    (585) 273-5994
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.

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  • Sharon Willis

    Willis, Sharon

    • Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
      Professor of Art and Art History
      Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    Office Location
    517 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-5757

    Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature

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    Xu, Tingting

    • Assistant Professor of Art History
    Office Location
    519 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-0169

    Interests: Early Chinese photography and media studies; Theories and historiography of Chinese painting; Formats of East Asian pictorial arts in cultural exchange; Antiquarianism and visual technology; Folding and folds; The unspoken and the unspeakable