Art History Faculty

Meet Our Art History Faculty

The accomplished art history faculty brings a wide array of expertise. That means you study with and get mentored by scholars with deep knowledge of their specialties.  

  • Roman Art and Archaeology 
  • Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art 
  • Italian and Southern Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture 
  • Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art, and the History of Printmaking 
  • Islamic Art and Architecture 
  • Queer Culture and Contemporary Art Theory 
  • Digital Humanities and the Ancient Near East 
  • North American Art and the History of Photography 
  • Art of the African Diaspora 
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  • Mariola Alvarez sits on a chair inside Tyler School of Art & Architecture, smiling and looking away from the camera.

    Mariola Alvarez

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Mariola Alvarez is a historian of Latin American art of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specialization in the history of abstraction in Brazil.  Contributing to a larger interest in interdisciplinarity and the relationship of art to…

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  • Susan Cahan stands in front of a multicolored wall with her arms crossed, smiling at the camera.

    Susan Cahan

    Dean and Professor of Art History

    Susan E. Cahan is an art historian, curator and educator who specializes in contemporary art and the history of museums. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and artistic change and the confluence of factors that shape the way…

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  • Tracy Cooper looking at the camera.

    Tracy Cooper, PhD

    Professor

    Tracy E. Cooper specializes in Venetian and early modern cultural history and theory, with particular interests in architecture and urbanism, space and circulation and patronage and collecting studies. As a member of the board of directors for…

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  • Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

    Jane DeRose Evans

    Professor and Chair of Art History

      Jane DeRose Evans can be found excavating in and studying coins from areas across the Mediterranean basin conquered by the Romans. Her work has taken her to southern France, Israel, Jordan and most recently Turkey, where she is the coin…

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  • Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver smiling and looking at the camera.

    Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver studies the archaeologies, landscapes, and arts of the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on the hybrid material practices created on the borderlands of Bronze and Iron Age empires. Her research and publications to…

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  • Marcia Hall, PhD

    Marcia Hall

    Laura H. Carnell Professor Emerita of Renaissance Arts

    Marcia Hall is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art. She is a teacher and scholar of Italian Renaissance painting who has written widely on painting in the sixteenth century, Raphael, Michelangelo and those who followed them…

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  •  John Hatfield looking at the camera with a rainbow-colored wall behind him.

    John Hatfield

    Professor of Practice and Director of Arts Management Track

    John Hatfield has over 30 years’ experience with art organizations including as Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park, NY for 10 years, Deputy Director and various positions at the New Museum, NY for 17 years and served as Asst. Vice…

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  • Richard Hylton

    Richard Hylton

    Associate Professor

    Richard Hylton’s research interests focus on Black British Art, African American Art in a Global Context, historical recovery and cultural memory and restitution, contemporary art, and ethnography. Richard Hylton was born in London, England and…

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  • Joseph Kopta behind a medieval art piece

    Joseph Kopta, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Joseph R. Kopta, PhD (he/they) is an art historian of the medieval world, with particular expertise in the visual and material culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. His intellectual interests are informed by issues of materiality, phenomenology of…

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  • Sarina Miller

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sarina Miller teaches and develops courses in art and design history that incorporate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary elements. A primary component of her holistic pedagogical method involves visual literacy and thematic teaching. She is the…

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  • Emily Neumeier sitting outdoors on a step

    Emily Neumeier, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Emily Neumeier is a historian of Islamic art and architecture who studies the visual and spatial cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Her research and teaching cover a wide range of material to address…

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  • Portrait of Matthew Palczynski wearing a blazer and a plaid shirt

    Matthew Palczynski

    Adjunct Faculty

    www.arthistorylecturer.com Matthew Palczynski’s research focuses on vanguard art since ca. 1900, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between painting and architecture. One of his primary goals is to use art in unexpected ways,…

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  • Alpesh Kantilal Patel smiling at the camera.

    Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD

    Associate Professor

    ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they/he) art historical scholarship, curatorial projects, and art criticism reflect their queer, transcultural, and decolonial approach to global contemporary art as evidenced by their…

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  • Erin Pauwels looking at the camera.

    Erin Pauwels, PhD

    Associate Professor of Art History and Undergraduate Advisor

    ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Erin Pauwels is an historian of modern and contemporary art in the Americas with special interest in photography, Indigenous Studies, and ecocritical approaches to visual culture. Her research explores the…

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  • Portrait of Alice Price smiling at the camera

    Alice Price

    Adjunct Faculty

    Price received a Ph.D. in art history from Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Price and Emily C. Burns are the editors of Mapping Impressionist Painting in a Transnational Context (Routledge 2021). Burns and Price’s next…

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  • Ashley West smiling at the camera.

    Ashley West, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Ashley West is an art historian of the early modern period, 1400-1700, with a particular expertise in the history, practice, and theories of printmaking. Her interest extends to cross-cultural encounters between the Holy Roman Empire and its…

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