Meet Our
Art History Faculty
Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology and Chair of Art History
Art History
Jane DeRose Evans, PhD
- Email: jevans@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9738
- Office: Tyler 210P
- Website: http://sites.temple.edu/janederoseevans/
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 specialist for the Harvard-Cornell Expeditions to Sardis.
Evans has been teaching at Tyler for more than twenty years, exploring the art and material culture of the Roman provinces, Rome itself and the ethical issues surrounding cultural heritage.
She serves as Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, a board member of the American...
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Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and Director of Graduate Studies
Art History
Mariola Alvarez, PhD
- Email: mariola.alvarez@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9172
- Office: Tyler 201M
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 postwar modernity, her book, The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954-1964 (University of California Press 2023) examines Neoconcretism, a Brazilian group composed of artists and poets from the 1950s and 1960s. Her second research project will examine the art of the...
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Professor of Practice, Director of Arts Management Track
John Hatfield
- Email: john.hatfield@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9722
- Office: Tyler 201G
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 President for Memorial and Cultural Planning, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York State and City agency empowered to memorialize, recover, and rebuild lower Manhattan following the events of 9/11. His work has been dedicated to leading and managing arts...
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Professor of Art History and Dean
Art History
Susan E. Cahan
- Email: susan.cahan@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9710
- Office: Tyler 210C
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 culture is imagined, discussed and advanced.
Cahan served as dean for the arts at Yale College from 2009–2017. Prior to this she was the Des Lee Professor in Contemporary Art and an Associate Dean at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. From 1994–2003, she was a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard...- Read More
Professor of Italian and Southern Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
Art History
Tracy E. Cooper, PhD
- Email: tracy.cooper@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9165
- Office: Tyler 201C
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 Save Venice, Inc. she is actively involved in conservation efforts and directs the research track Women Artists of Venice. She is best known for her award-winning book, Palladio’s Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic (Yale University Press]), which has had major interdisciplinary impact and been widely reviewed...
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Assistant Professor Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia and Digital Humanities
Art History
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver
- Email: mugedurusu@temple.edu
- Phone: 215 777 9788
- Office: Tyler 201F
- Website: https://temple.academia.edu/MugeDurusu
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 date concentrated on the Hittite Empire, with a specific emphasis on the imperial strategies of the center that can be traced in material culture and artistic production, as well as the responses of the border regions to Hittite imperialism. Müge is an active field...
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Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies
Painting, Art History
Philip Glahn, PhD
- Email: phglahn@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9176
- Office: Tyler 300B
ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025
Philip Glahn’s research and teaching focus on the histories, theories and practices of art as technology, labor and activism. His writings on the legacies of avant-garde strategies, the politics of drawing, digital media and new social formations, radio and the public sphere, as well as other topics have appeared in publications including Art Journal, Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, Parallax, Panorama and PUBLIC, as well as several anthologies.
His research has been supported by several grants including a Fulbright...
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Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art
Art History
Marcia Hall, PhD
- Email: marciahall713@gmail.com
- Phone: 215-777-9736
- Office: Tyler 201K
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. She began her career studying the Counter-Reformation at a time when it was a neglected subject and continues to contribute with books authored and edited as well as professional lectures and graduate seminars. Her other particular interest is technical art history, especially the way painters used color. She has studied artists’ techniques using...
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Assistant Professor of Instruction, Global Medieval Art
Art History
Joseph Kopta, PhD
- Email: joseph.kopta@temple.edu
- Phone: 215 777 9177
- Office: Tyler 201J
- Website: http://temple.academia.edu/JosephKopta
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 vision, pre-modern gender, and networks between Byzantium, Africa, Venice, and caliphal courts. As a manuscript specialist, their research engages with the intersections of traditional art history and new technologies of scientific investigation and conservation that permit the identification of precise materials in works of art and processes of...
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Associate Professor of Visual Studies
Visual Studies, Art History
Leah Modigliani, PhD
- Email: lmodigliani@temple.edu
- Office: Tyler 201B
- Website: www.leahmodigliani.net
Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. Modigliani’s work represents the liberatory potential (right to the city) and neoliberal revanchism (displacement, punitive laws) of urban experience. In artwork she has dwelled upon eviction ("How long can we tolerate this? An incomplete record from 1933-1999," 2016-2017); cities destroyed by war ("The City in Her Desolation,"...
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Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Art History
Emily Neumeier
- Email: neumeier@temple.edu
- Phone: 215 777-9228
- Office: Tyler 201E
- Website: https://temple.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier
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 issues of architecture and urbanism, cultural heritage and antiquarianism, Islamic calligraphy and the arts of the book, and transnational networks of mobility and exchange. She is currently preparing a book-length study that will present an alternative history of Ottoman architectural patronage from the borderlands of empire during the Age of...
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Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Art and LGBTQIA Theory
Art History
Alpesh Kantilal Patel
- Email: alpesh.patel@temple.edu
- Phone: 215 777 9720
- Office: Tyler 201 H
- Website: www.alpeshkpatel.com
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 most recent research output: contributions to the anthologies The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History and Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (both 2023) and a peer-reviewed article on a transgender studies meets art history course they taught. Previously editor of contemporary art book...
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Associate Professor of Art History
Art History
Erin Pauwels, PhD
- Email: erin.pauwels@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9737
- Office: Tyler 201A
- Website: https://temple.academia.edu/ErinPauwels
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 politics of portraiture and placemaking, technologies of image dissemination, and intersections between theater and the visual arts.
Her first book, Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures: The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York was published by the Penn State University Press in 2024....
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Associate Professor of Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art
Art History
Ashley D. West, PhD
- Email: ashley.west@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9745
- Office: Tyler 201L
ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 & SPRING 2025
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 neighbors across Northern and Central Europe, rival empires, and outposts globally. She studies processes of cultural transmission and the dissemination of knowledge, as well as occasions for artistic exchange through travel and portable objects, pilgrimages, warfare, global trade...
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Adjunct Instructor
Art History
Sarina Miller
- Email: sarina.miller@temple.edu
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 recipient of Temple University’s 2018-2019 Part-Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Instruction Award.
MA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Associate Professor
Art History
Matthew J. Palczynski, PhD
- Email: rothko76@temple.edu
- Website: www.arthistorylecturer.com
Matthew Palczynski’s research focuses on vanguard art since 1900, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between painting and architecture. One of his primary goals is to use art in unexpected ways, including for teaching best practices in business, medical and other non-traditional genres.
PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
MA, Syracuse University
BA, Purchase College, State University of New York
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Art History
Alice M. Rudy Price, PhD
- Email: alice.price@temple.edu
- Website: www.alice-price-reframing-art.net
Alice Price studies gender and aging as it relates to the work of Scandinavian artists and designers at the turn of the 20th century. She also works on projects related to the reception and signification of image in relationship to text in the illustrated book. Alice's experience as an historian, teacher, trainer and secondary educator influence both a focus on context and identity, as well as her attention to the practice of teaching and student outcomes.
PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
MA, La Salle University
MA, American University
Professor Emeritus, Prehistoric Aegean Art and Archaeology
Art History
Philip P. Betancourt, PhD
- Email: phil.betancourt@gmail.com
Philip P. Betancourt is an archaeologist and art historian who specializes in the art and culture of the Minoans. He received a PhD in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored over 20 books and numerous articles on the art of the prehistoric periods of Greece. He is has been honored with many awards including an honorary PhD from the University of Athens and the Archaeological Institute of America’s gold medal for lifetime achievement in archaeology.
Professor Emerita, Modern and Contemporary Art
Art History
Therese Dolan, PhD
- Email: therese.dolan@temple.edu
Therese Dolan has published Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time; Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore; and Gavarni and the Critics. Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Art Bulletin, Nineteenth Century French Studies, Women's Art Journal, and La Revue de l’Art, among others. In 2002, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship to study with Carolyn Abbate at Princeton University on opera and voice. She served for two terms as chair of the Department of Art History from 1998 to 2004 and served as Interim Dean of Tyler School of Art and Architecture from January 2008 to June 2009.
PhD, Bryn Mawr College
Professor Emeritus, Modern and Contemporary Art
Art History
Gerald Silk, PhD
- Email: gsilk@temple.edu
Gerald Silk is a modern and contemporary art historian with interests in Italian modernism, technological iconography, art and controversy and the intersection of style, politics and meaning in the visual arts. His current projects cover ethics and human and non-human animals in art and the relationship between the sexual revolution and Philadelphia bicentennial public commissions in 1976.
He publishes and lectures widely and is the author of books and book chapters, catalogues, articles and reviews. His work can be found in the periodicals, Art Journal; Art Criticism...
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Professor Emeritus, Italian Renaissance Art
Art History
Jack Wasserman, PhD
- Email: wass@temple.edu
Jack Wasserman has to his credit numerous articles and reviews, as well as three books entitled, Ottaviano Mascarino, published under the auspices of the Accademia di San Luca, Rome; Leonardo da Vinci in the Abrams Library of Great Painters series; and Michelangelo’s Florence Pietà, Princeton University Press. He has had a number of research awards, including a Fulbright grant to Italy and grants from American Council of Learned Society, Samuel S. Kress Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
PhD, New York University
MA, New York University