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Department of Art & Art History—Faculty

Teaching Faculty

Janet Catherine Berlo
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
janetberlo@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4168
305 Morey Hall

Interests: 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
elizabethcohen@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5998
Sage Art Center

Interests: 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 only)

Interests: Contemporary art, criticism, and theory; sexuality and representation.

Paul Duro
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Humanities Project Committee
paul.duro@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
Associate Professor of Art History
Interim Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies - Fall 2010
rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
421 Morey Hall

Interests: Postwar American and European Art, history of photography.

Rachael Hetzel
Lecturer in Art
rachael.hetzel@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
Sage Art Center

Interests: Printmaking, artist books, drawing, memory, storytelling, nostalgia
Websites: www.pistachiopress.com and www.rachaelhetzel.com

Heather Layton
Senior Lecturer in Art
heather.layton@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.

Cary Peppermint
Assistant Professor of Art
cpepperm@z.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
Sage Art Center

Interests: Exploring the convergence of ecological, cultural, and digital networks, through a post-disciplinary practice with strong ties to internet and performance art.

website: www.ecoarttech.net // vimeo: www.vimeo.com/ecoarttech // facebook: www.facebook.com/ecoarttech // twitter: www.twitter.com/ecoarttech
A. Joan Saab
Associate Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
joan.saab@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
423A Morey Hall

Interests: 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
grace.seiberling@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4169
422 Morey Hall

Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; early British photography; museums.

Marni Shindelman
Associate Professor of Art
marni.b.shindelman@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5567
Sage Art Center

Interests: 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
allen.topolski@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
david.walsh@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4285
414 Morey Hall

Interests: Monastic art and archeology; 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
Director of the Film and Media Studies Program
s.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5621
517 Morey Hall

Interests: 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
carl.chiarenza@gmail.com | (585) 442-1751
http://homepage.mac.com/chiarenza/Menu2.html

Diran K. Dohanian
Professor Emeritus of Art History

Arch Miller
Professor Emeritus of Art

Michael Venezia
Professor Emeritus of Art

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