Faculty

Our award-winning faculty are leaders in research and scholarly publishing, recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Getty Research Institute, the Social Sciences Research Council, the McKnight Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation, among other national and international institutions. They specialize in an array of historical periods, geographic regions, methodologies, and research questions.

We are expert teachers committed to helping students meet the world.

Faculty

Name Contact Specialty
Jane Blocker
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
346 Heller Hall
612-625-1549
block023@umn.edu
Contemporary art and theory
Emily Capper
Assistant Professor
362 Heller Hall
ercapper@umn.edu
Modern and contemporary art, social and intellectual history, film and media
Sinem Casale
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
423 Heller Hall
612-301-1563
sinem@umn.edu
Islamic art
Michael Gaudio
Professor
364 Heller Hall
gaudio@umn.edu
Visual arts in the early modern Atlantic world
Daniel M. Greenberg
Assistant Professor
421 Heller Hall
612-625-8336
gree2948@umn.edu
East Asian art
Laura Kalba
Associate Professor
352 Heller Hall
612-624-5595
kalba009@umn.edu
Modern European art and visual/material culture
Jennifer Marshall
Chair
Professor
372 Heller Hall
612-625-7120
marsh590@umn.edu
Arts and visual/material culture of the United States
Steven Ostrow
Professor
405 Heller Hall
612-626-2878
ostro133@umn.edu
Early Modern European Art, 1600-1750
Anna Lise Seastrand
Assistant Professor
417 Heller Hall
612-625-6384
seast003@umn.edu
South Asian art
Robert Silberman
Associate Professor
310 Heller Hall
612-624-1672
silbe001@umn.edu
Film studies and history of photography

Affiliate Faculty

Name Contact Specialty
Robert Cozzolino
Independent Curator
  American art
Karen Mary Davalos
Professor
Chicano & Latino Studies
kdavalos@umn.edu Chicana/o art and culture; Latina/o spirituality; museum studies; midwestern Latino ethnography; oral history and the archive; feminist theory and editorial praxis; community-based learning and decolonial methods; arts organizations and artist collectives
Diane Mullin
Curator
Weisman Art Museum
dmullin@umn.edu
612-625-9650
Modern and contemporary art
JB Shank
Professor
History
922 Heller Hall
612-624-7323
jbshank@umn.edu
Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, History of Science
Katherine Solomonson
Associate Professor
School of Architecture
145F Rapson Hall
612-624-5565
solom003@umn.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape, modern architecture

Faculty Emeriti

Name Contact Specialty
Karal Ann Marling
Professor Emerita
  American art and culture
Robert Poor
Professor Emeritus
poorx001@gmail.com East Asian art, Bronze Age archaeology
Michael Stoughton
Professor Emeritus
stoug001@umn.edu Italian Baroque art
Gabriel Weisberg
Professor Emeritus
348 Heller Hall
612-624-0323
weisb001@umn.edu
19th-century art, decorative and graphic arts

Visiting Faculty

Name Contact Specialty
Jennifer Awes Freeman
Visiting Assistant Professor
350 Heller Hall
612-626-5283
jawesfre@umn.edu
Medieval art