Joanne Allen Sr Professorial Lecturer CAS - Art
Joanne Allen is Professorial Lecturer of art history; she teaches General Education courses as well as more specialized courses on Medieval art, Renaissance art, and the history of architecture, with …
Art History Faculty
Art History Program Director: Andrea Pearson
Juliet Bellow Associate Professor CAS - Art
Juliet Bellow’s research centers on visual artists' experimentations with intermediality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the P…
Kim Butler Wingfield Associate Professor CAS - Art
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 t…
Nika Elder Assistant Professor CAS - Art
Nika Elder specializes in North American art from the colonial period to the present, including African-American art and the history of photography. Her current research and courses examine the mutual…
Andrea Pearson Professor CAS - Art
Dr. Andrea Pearson specializes in the visual culture of late medieval and early modern northern Europe, with research interests pertaining to women, gender, and sexuality in the southern Low Countries…
Ying-Chen Peng Assistant Professor CAS - Art
Dr. Peng specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese art history with a focus on gender issues and globalization of material culture. Before joining the American University she worked at the Natio…
Samuel Sadow Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS - Art
Sam Sadow is the Visual Resources Curator and an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Art Department of American University. His roles include managing the department's growing digital image collectio…
Adjunct
Sarah Gordon Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Sarah Gordon specializes in the history of photography and American art. Her book, Indecent Exposures: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes (Yale Press, 2015), positions Muybridge’s revolution…
Anne Richter Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Anne Nellis Richter's field of specialization is British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the art of the Romantic and Realist periods, and has a longst…
Emerita
Norma Broude Professor Emerita CAS - Art
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, Ca…
Mary Garrard 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 …
Helen Langa Associate Professor CAS - Art
Professor Helen Langa teaches a sequence of courses on American Art from the colonial era to the late 20th century with an emphasis on issues related to national identity, politics, race, gender, and …