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Department of Art History and Archaeology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Robert E. Harrist Jr., Ph.D.
933 Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.8532


Director of Graduate Studies: Zainab Bahrani, Ph.D.
810 Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.5351


Director of M.A. Programs: Kaira M. Cabanas, Ph.D.
826 Schermeron Hall
Tel: 212.854.4505


Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2009: Jonathan Crary, Ph.D.
917 Schermerhorn Hall
Tel: 212.854.3194


Dissertation Sponsors

Zainab Bahrani:
Professor, Ph.D., New York, 1989
Interests: Mesopotamian and East Mediterranean art and archaeology, art and critical theory, philosophies of aesthetics and representation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Francesco Benelli:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice), 2001
Interests: Renaissance and Baroque architecture, history and theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barry Bergdoll:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: Modern architecture, in particular 19th-century French and German architectural theory and practice, key figures of early 20th-century modernism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Brilliant:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Yale, 1960
Interests: Greek and Roman arts, particularly political imagery, portraiture and narrative; antiquity and the Renaissance; historiography of art history since Winckelmann; history and theory of art history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jonathan Crary:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1987
Interests: Visual culture, 19th-century art, film, technology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Francesco de Angelis:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2003
Interests: Roman and Etruscan art and archaeology, ancient art theory and criticism, monuments and cultural memory, perceptions and functions of architectural space
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Vidya Dehejia:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1967
Interests: South Asian art
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dawn Delbanco:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1981
Interests: East Asian art
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Vittoria Di Palma:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Modern European architecture and landscape
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Noam M. Elcott:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2009
Interests: Modern and contemporary art and media
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Freedberg:
Professor, D.Phil., Oxford, 1973
Interests: Art and the neurosciences; Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian painting of the 16th and 17th centuries; 16th- and 17th-century history of science; theory and criticism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cordula Grewe:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 1998
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century art and art theory; German art and culture; visual piety
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert E. Harrist Jr.:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1989
Interests: Chinese art
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anne Higonnet:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Art of the United States, Native North American art, the visual culture of colonialism and globalization
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth W. Hutchinson:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1999
Interests: North American art to 1914; feminist and cultural theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kellie Jones:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1999
Interests: African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American Art
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Natalie Kampen:
Professor Emeritus (Barnard), Ph.D., Brown, 1976
Interests: Roman art; feminist theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Holger A. Klein:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, 2000
Interests: Byzantine, Early Christian and medieval western art and archaeology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rosalind Krauss:
University Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1969
Interests: Modern art; theory and criticism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Matthew McKelway:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Japanese art of the Muromachi, Momoyama, and Edo period (14th - 19th c.)
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robin D. Middleton:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1958
Interests: 18th- through 20th-century European architecture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Keith Moxey:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Chicago, 1975
Interests: Northern Renaissance art; social history, critical theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen Murray:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1973
Interests: Medieval art; Gothic architecture; social and cultural history and the application of the digital media to art history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Esther Pasztory:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Pre-Columbian art history; Andean art and architecture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John Rajchman:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Theory and criticism; 20th-century art and philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jonathan Reynolds:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1991
Interests: History of Japanese architecture and visual culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Rosand:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1965
Interests: The Renaissance tradition; Venice; drawings and prints; theory and criticism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Simon Schama:
University Professor, M.A., Cambridge, 1969
Interests: 17th-century Dutch art, 18th-century French painting and politics; 16th–21st century British visual culture; landscape and environmental history; 20th- and 21st-century land and earth art; modern Western Europe, early modern Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Zoë Strother:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1992
Interests: Arts of Africa, 20th century and contemporary
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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