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 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 Director of Undergraduate Studies 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 Professor |
372 Heller Hall 612-625-7120 marsh590@umn.edu |
Arts and visual/material culture of the United States |
| Anna Lise Seastrand Associate 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 |
| Kendra Greendeer Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions Weisman Art Museum |
krgreend@umn.edu | Contemporary Native American art |
| Katerina Korola Assistant Professor German Studies |
kkorola@umn.edu | European modernism |
| 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 |
Faculty Emeriti
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Karal Ann Marling Professor Emerita |
American art and culture | |
| Steven Ostrow Professor Emeritus |
405 Heller Hall 612-626-2878 ostro133@umn.edu |
Early Modern European Art, 1600-1750 |
| 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 |