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Christine Poggi Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art, Contemporary Art |
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Edward J. Sullivan (on sabbatical fall '22 & fall '23, on leave spring '24) Deputy Director; 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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Michele D. Marincola (on leave fall 2022) Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Chair of the Conservation Center; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra Field of study: Conservation of Works of Art and Artifacts |
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Thelma K. Thomas (on sabbatical fall 2022) Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Late Antique (East and West), Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art |
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Robert Lubar Director of Masters Studies; Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Latin American Art; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art |
Faculty in the History of Art and Archaeology |
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Jean-Louis Cohen Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture Fields of study: Architecture; Contemporary Art; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-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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Colin Eisler Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts Field of study: Renaissance Art |
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Finbarr Barry Flood (on sabbatical spring 2023) 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 (on leave spring 2022, on sabbatical fall 2022) 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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Robert Lubar Director of Masters Studies; Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Latin American Art; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art |
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Clemente Marconi (on leave spring 2022) 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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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 Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts Field of study: Renaissance Art |
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Christine Poggi Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director; Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art, Contemporary Art |
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Hsueh-Man Shen (on sabbatical fall 2021, on leave fall 2022) Ehrenkranz Associate Professor in World Art Fields of study: Archaeology; East Asian Art |
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Robert Slifkin Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Contemporary Art; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art |
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Edward J. Sullivan (on sabbatical fall '22 & fall '23, on leave spring '24) Deputy Director; 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 (on sabbatical fall 2022) Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Fine Arts Fields of study: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Eastern Christian art |
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Marvin Trachtenberg (on sabbatical fall 2021, on leave spring 2022) Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts Fields of study: Architecture; Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art; Renaissance 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 (on leave fall 2022, on sabbatical spring 2023) Associate Professor of Fine Arts; Deputy Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias Fields of study: Architecture; Archaeology |
Conservation Center Faculty |
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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 |
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Michele D. Marincola (on leave fall 2022) Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Chair of the Conservation Center; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra Field of study: Conservation of Works of Art and Artifacts |
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Hannelore Roemich (on leave fall 2021) Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation Field of study: Conservation of Works of Art and Artifacts |
Associate Faculty |
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Dennis V. Geronimus Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU |
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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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Dipti Khera 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 |
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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 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 |
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Michele Matteini |
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Prita Meier |
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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 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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Jonathan Brown Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts Fields of study: Architecture; Latin American Art, Renaissance Art; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century 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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David O'Connor Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emeritus of Ancient Egyptian Art Fields of study: Ancient Aegean, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art; Archaeology |
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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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