Emeriti Faculty
Harry Berger, Jr. , 1924 – 2021
Renaissance and Baroque art and pictorial theory
Raoul Birnbaum
Buddhist studies and Chinese religions, from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China.
Email: rbirnb@ucsc.edu
Elisabeth L. Cameron
Visual cultures of Central Africa; issues of gender, colonialism, post-colonialism and iconoclasm.
Email: ecameron@ucsc.edu
John Hay
Visual and conceptual representation in premodern China, especially landscape/painting; Asian art history.
Donna Hunter
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice; portraiture.
Email: dhunter@ucsc.edu
Virginia Jansen
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture, campus planning and architecture.
Email: goth@ucsc.edu
Nan Rosenthal, 1937 – 2014
Modern and contemporary art
Nan Rosenthal was the first Professor of Art History at UCSC, teaching from 1971-1985 (officially resigning two years later). In 1971 she was hired in the art department as there was no separate art history then.
Catherine M. Soussloff
European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; performance studies; early modern Italian art; media history including film; Jewish identity and representation.
Email: catherine.soussloff@ubc.ca
