Faculty
Carolyn Dean
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America. Inka (Inca) visual and performance culture before and after Spanish colonization, 1400–1825 CE.
T. J. Demos
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Porter College
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
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).
Maria Evangelatou
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
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
Nicole Furtado
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Indigenous Futurisms, Oceanic Digital Art, Virtual Art, Science & Technology Studies, Cyberfeminisms, Indigenous Virtual Reality/AI, Speculative Aesthetics, Digital Ontologies, Performance Theory, Affect, & Ephemera
Jennifer A Gonzalez
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
Stacy L Kamehiro
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Visual cultures of the Oceania; (inter)nationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; museums, collecting, and exhibition.
Rosaline Kyo
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
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
Boreth J Ly
- Title
- Associate Professor in History of Art and Visual Culture
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
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.
Derek Conrad Murray
- Title
- Professor, History of Art & Visual Culture
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visualy-Based Research, Identity and the Ethics of Representation, Media Studies, Film and Culture.
Albert Narath
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Modern and Contemporary architecture and design; environmental history; theories of technology; historiography of modernism; architecture and photography
Kyle Parry
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
art, digital media, and visual culture; data, technology, and environment; critical theory; history and theory of photography
Kailani Polzak
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
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.