Research Interests
- Early Modern Italy
- Borderlands and Mediterranean Studies
- History of Cartography
- Art Collecting and Sales
Research Interests
- Postwar and contemporary art
- American art and visual culture
- New media practices
- Media theory
Research Interests
- Media theory and history
- History of science and technology
- Psychoanalysis
- Cinema
- New media
Research Interests
- European Avant-Gardes
- Modern Art and Architecture
- Public Space
- Radicalism and the Arts
- 20th-Century French Intellectual and Cultural Politics
Pamela G. Smart
Associate Professor Art History/Anthropology
Art History
Research Interests
- Anthropology of Artworlds
- Museums
- Critical Aesthetics
- Affective Modalities of Experience
John Tagg
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History
Art History
Research Interests
- History and theory of photography
- Cultural politics and critical theory
- History of art history
Nancy A. Um
Professor and Associate Dean
Art History; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Visual culture, built environment, urbanism, and material exchange around the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean littoral
- Islamic Art and Architecture
- Yemen
- Early Modern Commerce and Cross-Cultural Exchange
- Domestic and Commercial Architecture
- Digital Art History
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism
- architectural theory
- social and political memory in postwar German visual culture
Andrew R. Walkling
Dean's Professor; Dean's Professor; Director of Graduate Programs
Art History; English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Theatre
Research Interests
- Seventeenth-Century British History
- Visual Culture
- Literary Studies
- Performance Studies
- Musicology
Research Interests
- Critical theory, particularly that of Adorno and Benjamin and the historical avant garde
- film noir
- German Expressionism and Weimar cinema
- paracinema
- Marxism
- psychoanalysis and phenomenology
