Faculty

Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America. Inka (Inca) visual and performance culture before and after Spanish colonization, 1400–1825 CE.

Prof. Demos researches and writes about modern and contemporary art, activism, radical politics, and political ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017), and Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (2023).

Visual cultures of the Mediterranean with emphasis on Ancient Greek and Byzantine material. Cross-cultural interactions; continuity and change; politics and religion; gender construction and perception; word and image; ritual and the senses

Indigenous Futurisms, Oceanic Digital Art, Virtual Art, Science & Technology Studies, Cyberfeminisms, Indigenous Virtual Reality/AI, Speculative Aesthetics, Digital Ontologies, Performance Theory, Affect, & Ephemera

Jennifer Gonzalez writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space, public space, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender.

Visual cultures of Oceania; (inter)nationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; historicities; material culture studies; museums, collecting, and exhibitions.

Art and visual cultures of modern and contemporary Tibet and China; visual construction of race, ethnicity, and gender in Asia; art of the Tibetan diaspora; Chinese socialist propaganda and visual culture; politics of spatial construction in colonial contexts

Visual cultures of Southeast Asia (including diasporas and Southeast Asian American): theory of historical trauma, memory, (Post) colonial, and Cultural Studies. Issues of gender, sexuality, race, nation, critical pleasure, healing and the body.

Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visually-Based Research, Identity and the Ethics of Representation, Media Studies, Film and Culture.

Modern and Contemporary architecture and design; environmental history; theories of technology; historiography of modernism; architecture and photography

art, digital media, and visual culture; data, technology, and environment; critical theory; history and theory of photography

Art and visual culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; constructions of race; cultures of empire and colonialism; natural history illustration; print production and circulation.