Full-time Faculty

Alexander Alberro
Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History, Barnard
Modern and Contemporary Art; History of Photography

Zainab Bahrani
Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology and Department Chair
Ancient Near Eastern and East Mediterranean Art and Archaeology; Art Theory; Historiography; Philosophies of Representation

Francesco Benelli
Associate Professor
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture; History and Theory

Barry Bergdoll
Professor
19th- and 20th-century Architectural History; Theory and Criticism

Kaira M. Cabañas
Lecturer and Director of MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies
Modern and Contemporary Art, Europe and the Americas

Michael Cole
Professor
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

Jonathan Crary
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory
Visual Culture; 19th-century Art, Film, Technology

Francesco de Angelis
Associate Professor
Roman Art and Archaeology

Vidya Dehejia
Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art
South Asian Art

Vittoria Di Palma
Associate Professor
History and Theory of 18th- and 19th-century European Architecture; Landscape Studies

Noam M. Elcott
Assistant Professor
20th-century Art, Photography, Film

David Freedberg
Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America 
Art and Neuroscience; Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries; 16th and 17th-century History of Science; Theory and Criticism

Cordula Grewe
Associate Professor
19th-century Art and Aesthetics; Visual Piety in the Modern Age; German Art, 1750 to 1920 

Robert E. Harrist Jr.
Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History
Chinese Art

Anne Higonnet
Professor, Barnard
19th-century Arts; History of the History of Art

Elizabeth W. Hutchinson
Associate Professor, Barnard
North American Art to 1914; Feminist and Cultural Theory

Kellie Jones
Associate Professor
African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American Art

Branden W. Joseph
The Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Director of Art Humanities
Modern and Contemporary Art

Holger A. Klein
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art and Archaeology

Rosalind Krauss
University Professor
20th-century Art and Theory

Matthew McKelway
Atsumi Associate Professor of Japanese Art History
Japanese Art

Keith Moxey
Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College
Northern Renaissance Art; Historiography and Philosophy of Art History

Stephen Murray
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History
Medieval Art; Gothic Architecture; Social and Cultural History and the Application of Digital Media to Art History

Ioannis Mylonopoulos
Assistant Professor
Greek Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Esther Pasztory
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History
Art of Mesoamerica; Ancient Andes; Art Theory

Jonathan Reynolds
Associate Professor, Barnard, and Acting Chair at Barnard, Spring 2012
Japanese Architecture and Photography

Simon Schama
University Professor
17th-century Dutch Art; 18th-century French Painting and Politics; 16th-2lst-century British Visual Culture; Landscape and Environmental History; 20th and 21st-century Land and Earth Art  

Z. S. Strother
Riggio Professor of African Art and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Arts of Africa