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 [email protected] |
Contemporary art and theory |
| Emily Capper Assistant Professor |
362 Heller Hall [email protected] |
Modern and contemporary art, social and intellectual history, film and media |
| Sinem Casale Associate Professor |
423 Heller Hall 612-301-1563 [email protected] |
Islamic art |
| Michael Gaudio Professor |
364 Heller Hall [email protected] |
Visual arts in the early modern Atlantic world |
| Daniel M. Greenberg Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Professor |
421 Heller Hall 612-625-8336 [email protected] |
East Asian art |
| Laura Kalba Associate Professor |
352 Heller Hall 612-624-5595 [email protected] |
Modern European art and visual/material culture |
| Jennifer Marshall Professor |
372 Heller Hall 612-625-7120 [email protected] |
Arts and visual/material culture of the United States |
| Anna Lise Seastrand Associate Professor |
417 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 [email protected] |
South Asian art |
| Robert Silberman Associate Professor |
310 Heller Hall 612-624-1672 [email protected] |
Film studies and history of photography |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Cozzolino Independent Curator |
American art | |
| Karen Mary Davalos Professor Chicano & Latino Studies |
[email protected] | 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 |
[email protected] | Contemporary Native American art |
| Katerina Korola Assistant Professor German Studies |
[email protected] | European modernism |
| Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. Assistant Professor Philosophy |
[email protected] | |
| Jessica Lopez Lyman Assistant Professor Chicano & Latino Studies |
[email protected] | Contemporary Chicana and Latinx art, Women of Color performance |
| Diane Mullin Curator Weisman Art Museum |
[email protected] 612-625-9650 |
Modern and contemporary art |
| Cristin McKnight Sethi Director of Education Textile Center |
[email protected] | History of textiles, craft-based media, South and Southeast Asian art |
| JB Shank Professor History |
922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Early Modern European Art, 1600-1750 |
| Robert Poor Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
East Asian art, Bronze Age archaeology |
| Michael Stoughton Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] | Italian Baroque art |
| Gabriel Weisberg Professor Emeritus |
348 Heller Hall 612-624-0323 [email protected] |
19th-century art, decorative and graphic arts |
Visiting Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Awes Freeman Visiting Assistant Professor |
350 Heller Hall 612-626-5283 [email protected] |
Medieval art |