Faculty

Joan Kee

Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: modern and contemporary art, East and Southeast Asian art, art and law

Prita Meier

Deputy Director; Professor of Art History; The Institute of Fine Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences

Fields of study: Art and architecture of Africa and the Indian Ocean world

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Associate Professor

Field of study: Nineteenth-century art

Thomas Crow

Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2026); Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art

Fields of study: Contemporary Art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art; Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art

Finbarr Barry Flood

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, the Institute of Fine Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences

Fields of study: Archaeology; Art of the Middle East and South Asia

Jonathan Hay

Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2027); Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Chinese art history; Historiography

Kathryn Howley

Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art

Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian art; Archaeology

Joan Kee

Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: modern and contemporary art, East and Southeast Asian art, art and law

Erich Kessel

Assistant Professor

Fields of study: Black diaspora and African-American art and visual culture; contemporary art; critical theory and method

Dipti Khera

Associate Professor of Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences; Chair, Public Engagement Committee

Fields of study: Art of South Asia and Indian Ocean World

Robert Maxwell

Director of Masters Studies; Sherman Fairchild Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art

Prita Meier

Deputy Director; Professor of Art History; The Institute of Fine Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences

Fields of study: Art and architecture of Africa and the Indian Ocean world

Anthony Meyer

Assistant Professor

Fields of Study: Indigenous Arts of the Ancestral and Early Modern Americas

Alexander Nagel

Placement Director; Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts

Field of study: Renaissance art

Christine Poggi

John Langeloth Loeb Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, contemporary art

Hsueh-man Shen

Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in the Art of Maritime Afro Asia

Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian art

Robert Slifkin

Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Contemporary art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art

Thelma Thomas

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art

Katherine Welch

Associate Professor of Fine Arts; Deputy Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias

Fields of study: Architecture; Archaeology

Christine Frohnert

Time-based Media Art Program Director and Adjunct Instructor

Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Matthew Hayes

Associate Professor of Paintings Conservation

Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Emilie Boone

Associate Professor of Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

Fields of study: Art and visual culture of the African Diaspora; African American art

Dennis Geronimus

Professor of Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

John Hopkins

Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: Archaeology; Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; Architecture

Pepe Karmel

Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: Picasso, Pollock, Cubism, abstract art, Minimalism, global contemporary art, critical theory

Meredith Martin

Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art

Michele Matteini

Associate Professor of East Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: East Asian art

Shelley Rice

Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: Photography and multi-media art

Zohreh Soltani

Assistant Professor; Department of Art History and The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Fields of study: Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism of West Asia

Jonathan Alexander

Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art; Renaissance art

Norbert Baer

Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Conservation

Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Colin Eisler

Robert Lehman Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts

Field of study: Renaissance art

Margaret Holben Ellis

Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita of Paper Conservation; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra

Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Günter H. Kopcke

Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities

Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; Architecture

Michele Marincola

Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor Emerita of Conservation

Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Thomas Mathews

John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art

Dianne Dwyer Modestini

Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Paintings Conservation, Emerita

Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Philippe de Montebello

Fiske Kimball Professor Emeritus in the History and Culture of Museums

Fields of study: Curatorial and museum studies

Hannelore Roemich

Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emerita of Conservation

Field of study: Conservation of Works of Art and Artifacts

Patricia Rubin

Professor Emerita of Fine Arts

Field of study: Renaissance art

Priscilla P. Soucek

John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emerita in the History of Art

Fields of study: Architecture; Art of the Middle East and South Asia

Edward J. Sullivan

Helen Gould Shepard Professor Emeritus in the History of Art; The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

Fields of study: Latin American (including Brazilian) and Caribbean art, 17th century to present; Latinx art; art of the Iberian peninsula; contemporary art

Marvin Trachtenberg

Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emeritus of the History of Fine Arts

Fields of study: Architecture; Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art; Renaissance art