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The Institute of Fine Arts Faculty
Academic Administration
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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 |
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Matthew Hayes Assistant Professor of Paintings Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Lisa Conte Assistant Professor of Paper Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Robert Slifkin Deputy Director; Director of Graduate Studies; Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts Fields of study: Contemporary art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art |
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Hsueh-Man Shen Director of Masters Studies; Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in World Art Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian art |
Faculty in the History of Art and Archaeology |
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Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen Assistant Professor Field of study: Nineteenth-century art |
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Thomas Crow Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art Fields of study: Contemporary Art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art; Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art |
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Catherine Quan Damman Linda Nochlin Visiting Assistant Professor until 8/31/2025; Valeria Napoleone Linda Nochlin Professor; Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art as of 9/1/2025 |
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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 |
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Jonathan Hay Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts Field of study: Chinese art history; Historiography |
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Kathryn Howley Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian art; Archaeology |
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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 |
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Erich Kessel Assistant Professor Fields of study: Black diaspora and African-American art and visual culture; contemporary art; critical theory and method |
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Dipti Khera Associate Professor of Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences Fields of study: Art of South Asia and Indian Ocean World |
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Clemente Marconi (on sabbatical fall 2024) James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; Architecture; Archaeology |
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Robert A. Maxwell Sherman Fairchild Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art |
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Prita Meier |
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Anthony Meyer (as of 9/1/2025) Assistant Professor Fields of Study: Indigenous Arts of the Ancestral and Early Modern Americas |
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Philippe de Montebello Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums Fields of study: Curatorial and museum studies |
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Alexander Nagel (on sabbatical fall 2024) Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts Field of study: Renaissance art |
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Christine Poggi (on sabbatical fall 2024 and spring 2025) John L. Loeb Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, contemporary art |
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Hsueh-Man Shen Director of Masters Studies; Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in World Art Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian art |
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Robert Slifkin Deputy Director; Director of Graduate Studies; Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts Fields of study: Contemporary art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art |
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Edward J. Sullivan
Helen Gould Shepard Professor 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 |
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Thelma K. Thomas Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art |
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Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt (not currently teaching) Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Science Fields of study: Architecture; Renaissance art |
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Katherine Welch Associate Professor of Fine Arts; Deputy Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias Fields of study: Architecture; Archaeology |
Conservation Center Faculty |
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Lisa Conte Assistant Professor of Paper Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Christine Frohnert Director of the Time-based Media Program; Conservator of Time-based Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohner, LLC Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Matthew Hayes Assistant Professor of Paintings Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Michele D. Marincola (on sabbatical Fall 2024) Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
Associate Faculty |
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Emilie Boone Assistant 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 |
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Dennis V. Geronimus Professor of Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences |
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John Hopkins Associate 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 |
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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 |
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Carol Herselle Krinsky Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Fields of study: 20th century architecture and planning; 15th century painting |
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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 |
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Michele Matteini |
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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 |
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Kenneth Silver Silver Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Fields of study: Modern and contemporary art, design, and culture |
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Kathryn A. Smith Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Fields of study: Early Christian and medieval art; illustrated Gothic manuscripts |
Emeritus Faculty |
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Jonathan J. G. Alexander Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art; Renaissance art |
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Norbert S. Baer Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Conservation Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Colin Eisler Robert Lehman Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts Field of study: Renaissance art |
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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 |
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Günter H. Kopcke Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; Architecture |
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Thomas F. Mathews John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art |
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Dianne Dwyer Modestini Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Paintings Conservation, Emerita Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts |
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Hannelore Roemich Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emerita of Conservation Field of study: Conservation of Works of Art and Artifacts |
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Patricia Rubin Professor Emerita of Fine Arts Field of study: Renaissance art |
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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 |
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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 |
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