The Institute of Fine Arts Faculty

NYU Affiliated Faculty

Miriam Basilio

Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU

Mosette Broderick

Clinical Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, NYU

Joan Breton Connelly

Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, NYU Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School, Cyprus

Jordana Mendelson

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU

Ara H. Merjian

Professor of Italian Studies, Arts and Science, NYU

Jon Ritter

Clinical Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, NYU

Ann Macy Roth

Clinical Professor, Art History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies, Department of Art HIstory, NYU

Lillian Tseng

Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Deborah Willis

University Professor, Photography & Imaging and Social & Cultural Analysis, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Christopher Wood

Professor, German Department; Chair, Humanities Chairs, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU

Contributing Faculty and Collaborating Scholars

• Jennifer Ball
  Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

• Kim Benzel
  Curator in Charge, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Monika Bincsik
  Diane and Arthur Abbey Assistant Curator of Japanese Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• John T. Carpenter
  Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Blair Fowlkes Childs
  Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts

• Francesca Ferrari
  Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts

• Juliet Fleming
  Associate Professor of English, NYU

• Marc LeBlanc
  Associate Director, Academic Affairs, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

• Mark McDonald
  Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts; Curator, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, and early French prints and illustrated books, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Patricia Norby
  Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts (as of Spring 2025); Associate Curator of Native American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Nadine M. Orenstein
  Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts; Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Michael Seymour
  Assistant Curator, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Freyda Spira
  Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at Yale University Art Gallery

• Linda Wolk-Simon
  Frank and Clara Meditz Director and Chief Curator, Fairfield University Art Museum

• Beryl Barr-Sharrar
  Research Affiliate in Greek and Roman Art

• Paul Stanwick
  Research Affiliate in Egyptian Art

• Laurel Bestock
  Associate Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology, Brown University; Executive Director of Excavations at Abydos, Egypt and Visiting Research Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

• Kathryn Howley
  Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art; Field Director, Excavations at Sanam in Sudan

• Clemente Marconi
  James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor; Project Director, IFA Excavations at Selinunte, Italy

• Roland R. R. Smith
  Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford; Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias

• Bonna D. Wescoat
  Professor of Art History, Emory University; Director, Excavations in Samothrace

Foreign Language Instructors

• Uwe Bergermann
  Teacher of German Reading Comprehension since 2000

• Rosalia Pumo
  Teacher of Italian Language Comprehensive since 2009

• Heidi Ziegler
  Teacher of French and German Reading Comprehension since 2000