Department · vaiu-art-arthist-*
Studio art practice (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography) together with the global history and theory of art from antiquity to the contemporary, including curatorial and museum studies.
Research areas
Faculty directory
Department chair · Renaissance & Early Modern Art
Prof. Nadia Vex
Italian Renaissance painting, Northern European art, and historiography of art history.
Professor · Painting & Drawing
Prof. Rania Pike
Oil & acrylic painting, observational and figure drawing, and color theory.
Professor · Sculpture, Printmaking & Photography
Prof. Aisha Maddox
Sculpture and installation, intaglio and relief printmaking, and analog & digital photography.
Professor · Ancient & Medieval Art
Prof. Amina Haldar
Greco-Roman art and archaeology, Byzantine and Islamic art, and medieval manuscripts and architecture.
Professor · Modern & Contemporary Art
Prof. Nadia Orrin
Modernism and the avant-gardes, contemporary global art, and critical theory and aesthetics.
Professor · Global & Non-Western Art
Prof. Sena Wren
Arts of Asia, arts of Africa and the Americas, and cross-cultural exchange and decolonial approaches.
Professor · Curation & Conservation
Prof. Lian Haldar
Exhibition design and curatorial practice, art conservation science, and museum ethics and provenance.
