Art History | Faculty & Staff

Manager of Visual Resources

Kathe Hicks Albrecht is the visual resources curator in the Department of Art. She is a long-term member of the Visual Resources Association, the pre-eminent international organization of visual resources professionals and image managers, and recentl... [More]

Assistant Professor

Juliet Bellow’s current research centers on the relationship between art and dance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde, published in 2013 by Ashgate Press, analyzes s... [More]

Professor Emerita

A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in nineteenth-century French and Italian painting, Norma Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Degas, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Seurat, and the Italian Macchiaioli. With M... [More]

Associate Professor

Professor Butler (PhD with distinction Johns Hopkins University 2003, BA with honors, Harvard University 1992) is Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History in American University in the Art Department. Having completed a book manuscr... [More]

Adjunct Instructor

Lynn Clement is an adjunct professor of Art History at American University and teaches two courses: “Art; the Historical Experience” and “Modern Art.” An alumna of the Art History Masters program at American University, her scholarly research focuses... [More]

Professor Emerita

Best known for her groundbreaking feminist scholarship, Garrard has drawn on feminist theory and activism to illuminate and reinterpret art of the Italian Renaissance-Baroque period. Her publications include two books and other writings on Artemisia ... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Sybil Gohari (BA ’98) is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation examines the influence of race and gender on the reception of Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas, Norman Lewis, and Mark Tobey. Sybil’s paper, “Helen... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Kunimoto is interested in Asian art, photography, the concept of orientalism, gender, and the relationship between American Art and the Arts of Asia. Her research focuses on the visual arts in 1950s and 1960s Japan, with particular emphasis... [More]

Associate Professor

Professor Helen Langa teaches Art. The Historical Experience, Modern Art, American Art, and Contemporary Art, with an emphasis on issues related to politics, race, gender, and cultural studies. After two years as Chair of the Art Department (Art Hist... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Professor Pearson is a specialist in northern Renaissance art, with research interests in women, gender, and sexuality in the southern Low Countries. Her book, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resista... [More]

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