Full Directory
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Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
Ashenfelder, Stephanie
- Director, Digital Media Studies
Academic Director, Studio Arts
- Office Location
- 206 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
- Director, Digital Media Studies
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Berlo, Janet Catherine
- Professor Emerita
- Office Location
- 513 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: Native American art and visual culture; The politics of representation; Museum studies and critique; Quilt, craft, and folk art ; History and historiography; Issues of materiality both old and new
Bollmann, Marc
- Senior Library Assistant, Art and Music Library
- Office Location
- G136 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9277
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Chiarenza, Carl
- Professor Emeritus
- Artist in Residence
- Telephone
- (585) 442-1751
- Web Address
- Website
Christensen, Peter
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Art and Art History - Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
- Office Location
- 212C Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7173
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Collier, Martin
- Administrator, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 506 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7451
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Delehanty, Aaron
- River Campus Curator
Lecturer
- River Campus Curator
Duro, Paul
- Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 514 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing
E
Enck, Joshua
- Lecturer
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Abstract sculpture; architectural design and drawing; furniture design and woodworking; metalworking; recent Fulbright Scholar in India researching traditional metal vessel making techniques
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Frontz, Stephanie
- Art Librarian and Head of the Art/Music Library
- Office Location
- G135 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4476
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Gennari, Carolyn
She/Her/They/Them
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Archives, memory, and historiography; Museum studies; Interdisciplinary art and artistic research; Community art practices; Site-specificity; Artist as curator; Sculpture; Video arts and projection; Performance and the body; Visual culture, perception, and histories of media
H
Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 506A Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4112
Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies
Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 521 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6052
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement
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Layton, Heather
- Associate Professor of Art
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 755-6819
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art
Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne
- Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents
Leonard, Michael
- Studio Arts Manager, Sage Art Center
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3730
- Web Address
- Website
M
Maier, Lorna
- Administrative Assistant, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 506 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Metté, Megan
she/her/hers
- Art New York Associate Director
Departmental Curator
Lecturer
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Web Address
- Website
- Art New York Associate Director
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Pilcher, Kirby
- Lecturer
Interests: Photography; Artist books
R
Remmel, Rachel
- Assistant Dean and Director, Teaching Center
- Office Location
- 208A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4367
Interests: Architectural history; museum studies; 19th-century US art history and history; social power; institutional history; building types such as schools and houses; artistic practice; the construction of the categories of art and artist; theories about the formative power of architecture
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Sayadi, Nader
he/him/his
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 522 Morey Hall
Interests: Themes: Power and agency; Modes of production and consumption; Transmission of knowledge; Orientalism; Nationalism, and Historiography.; Topics: Architecture and city (patronage, spaces of manufacturing, landscapes of borderlands); Pre-industrial manufacturing (know-how of making things (mainly textiles), chaîne opératoire, and their social relations); Textiles and dress (social and political implications of fibers and dyes, weaving techniques and technologies, design, and pattern making).; Contexts: West and South Asia, Islamic World, Indian Ocean; 17th- 19th centuries.
Seiberling, Grace
- Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 523 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4169
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
Shin, Mizin
- Assistant Professor of Art
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Printmaking and Digital Media; Immersive Installation; Emerging techniques in contemporary printmaking; Interdependency of societal systems; Chaos Theory; Phenomena network; Emergence
Slobogin, Christine
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Joint Appointment in Art and Art History
- Office Location
- G-7011C in Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, URMC
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The medical humanities; Visual culture of plastic and reconstructive surgery; Medical photography and photographic anonymity; Cartoons and visual humor; Ethics and emotions in medical visual culture; The body and the museum
- Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics
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Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.
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Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 517 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5757
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
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Xu, Tingting
- Assistant Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 519 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0169
Interests: Early Chinese photography and media studies; Theories and historiography of Chinese painting; Formats of East Asian pictorial arts in cultural exchange; Antiquarianism and visual technology; Folding and folds; The unspoken and the unspeakable