Department Chair

Joseph Alchermes, Associate Professor of Art History, Director of Architectural Studies

Joseph Alchermes

Associate Professor of Art History, Director of Architectural Studies

Late Roman art • Early Christian art • Byzantine art • Medieval architecture


Faculty

Kit Coty, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

Kit Coty

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History


Karen Gonzalez Rice, Associate Professor of Art History

Karen Gonzalez Rice

Associate Professor of Art History

Contemporary art (1945-present) • Experimental art • Performance studies • Contemporary art and the body • American studies; contemporary art in America • Religion in contemporary art • Trauma studies • Art and ethics


Di Luo, Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Di Luo

Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Chinese Art • Chinese Architecture • Architectural History • Architecture • Asian Art • World Art • Digital Humanities


Christopher B.  Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program

Christopher B.  Steiner

Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program

History of Photography • African Art • Offbeat Museums and Visionary Art • Stereotypes in Art and Visual Culture • Art Market and Collecting • Kitsch and "Bad" Art


Anna Vallye, Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Anna Vallye

Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

(On Sabbatical 2023-2024 Academic Year)

History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture


William Pollack

Adjunct Instructor of Art History

Associated Faculty

Yibing Huang, Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection

Yibing Huang

Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art, and culture • Modernism and postmodernism • Chinese American literature and art • Indigenous poetics and global modernity • Cultural translations between Chinese and American poetry


Sabrina Notarfrancisco, Associate Professor of Theater, Chair of the Department of Theater

Sabrina Notarfrancisco

Associate Professor of Theater, Chair of the Department of Theater

Costume design • Costume construction • History of Western Fashion • Wearable Politics • International Design


Robert Baldwin, Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History

Robert Baldwin

Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History

Late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Post-Impressionist art, Mercantile culture in European art and literature (1300-1700) • Landscape in European art and literature (1350-1920) • Music in European art, literature, and society (1400-1920) • Gender and art (1300-1920)


Abigail Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emeritus of Art History

Abigail Van Slyck

Dayton Professor Emeritus of Art History

American architecture • Gender issues in architecture • Vernacular architecture and cultural landscape studies • Spaces of childhood • Library architecture


Barbara Zabel, Professor Emeritus of Art History

Barbara Zabel

Professor Emeritus of Art History

American art • European modernism • Gender issues in the Machine Age • Portraiture in the 20th century


In Memoriam

John H. B. Knowlton

Professor Emeritus of Art History