The Institute of Fine Arts Faculty

Academic Administration

Christine Poggi
Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, contemporary art
Matthew Hayes
Assistant Professor of Paintings Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center
Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts
Michele D. Marincola Michele D. Marincola
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Co-Chair of the Conservation Center; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts
Robert Slifkin
Director of Graduate Studies; Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Contemporary art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art
Hsueh-Man Shen
Director of Masters Studies (as of September 1, 2023); Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in World Art
Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian art

Faculty in the History of Art and Archaeology

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Assistant Professor
Fields of study: Nineteenth-century art
Thomas Crow (on leave Fall 2023, on sabbatical spring 2024)
Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art
Fields of study: Contemporary Art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art; Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art
Finbarr Barry Flood (on sabbatical spring 2024)
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
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts
Field 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
Erich Kessel
Assistant Professor 
Fields of study: Black diaspora and African-American art and visual culture; contemporary art; critical theory and method
Robert Lubar (on sabbatical fall 2023 and spring 2024)
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Latin American art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art
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
Robert A. Maxwell
Sherman Fairchild Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art

Prita Meier (on sabbatical fall 2023 and spring 2024)
Associate Professor of Art History; The Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences
Fields of study: Art and architecture of Africa and the Indian Ocean world

Philippe de Montebello
Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums
Fields of study: Curatorial and museum studies
Alexander Nagel (on leave fall 2023, on sabbatical fall 2024)
Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts
Field of study: Renaissance art
Christine Poggi
Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts

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

Hsueh-Man Shen
Director of Masters Studies (as of September 1, 2023); Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in World Art
Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian art
Robert Slifkin
Director of Graduate Studies; Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Contemporary art; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art
Edward J. Sullivan
(on sabbatical fall 2023, on leave spring 2024)
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
Thelma K. Thomas  (on leave fall 2023)
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art
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
Katherine Welch (on sabbatical fall 2023)
Associate Professor of Fine Arts; Deputy Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias
Fields of study: Architecture; Archaeology

Conservation Center Faculty

Christine Frohnert
Research Scholar; Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohner, LLC
Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts
Matthew Hayes
Assistant Professor of Paintings Conservation; Co-Chair of the Conservation Center
Fields of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts
Michele D. Marincola Michele D. Marincola
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Co-Chair of the Conservation Center; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts

Associate Faculty

Portrait of Emilie Boone Emilie Boone
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Fields of study: Art and visual culture of the African Diaspora; African American art
Dennis V. Geronimus
Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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
Headsshot of Pepe Karmel 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
Dipti Khera Dipti Khera (on sabbatical fall 2023 and spring 2024)
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Fields of study: Art of South Asia and Indian Ocean World
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
Meredith Martin Meredith Martin
Associate 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

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
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
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

Jonathan J. G. Alexander Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts
Fields of study: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art; Renaissance art
Norbert S. Baer Norbert S. 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 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
Guenter Kopcke Günter H. Kopcke
Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; Architecture
Thomas F. Mathews Thomas F. Mathews
John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art
Michele D. Marincola Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Paintings Conservation, Emerita
Field of study: Conservation of works of art and artifacts
Hannelore Roemich 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 
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