Faculty | Art History Department | The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities

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Core Faculty

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Faculty Contact Information		Position	Area
	Persis Berlekamp 773.702.0250 berlekam@uchicago.edu	Assistant Professor of Art History and the College	Islamic Art
	Charles E. Cohen 773.702.0619 cac5@uchicago.edu	Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College	Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art
	Jas' Elsner 773.702.7946 jas.elsner@corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk	Visiting Professor of Art History, Spring 2007 - 2013	Roman and early Christian art, viewing and viewer-response in art, pilgrimage, the receptions of antiquity including the history of collecting and the musuem, art and text including ekphrasis.
	Darby English 773.702.0262 denglish@uchicago.edu	Associate Professor of Art History and the College	Modern and Contemporary American Art, Cultural Studies, Art Theory and Criticism
	Ping Foong 773.702.0256 pfoong@uchicago.edu On leave 2008-2009.	Assistant Professor of Art History, the College, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations	Chinese Art & Archaeology
	Chelsea Foxwell chf2003@columbia.edu	Joining us as an Assistant Professor of Art History and the College	Japanese Art & Architecture
	Cécile Fromont fromont@post.harvard.edu	Joining us as an Assistant Professor of Art History and the College	African Art & Architecture - Art and Architecture of the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic
	Tom Gunning 773.702.0264 tgunning@uchicago.edu	Professor of Art History, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, and the College	Cinema & Media Studies
	Elizabeth Helsinger 773.702.7918 ehel@uchicago.edu	John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of English Language and Literature, Art History, and the College	19th Century Britain
	Matthew Jesse Jackson 773.702.5134 mjjacksn@uchicago.edu	Assistant Professor of Art History, the Department of Visual Arts, and the College	Contemporary, postwar European and Soviet Art
	Aden Kumler 773-702-0266 akumler@uchicago.edu	Assistant Professor of Art History and the College	Western medieval art and architecture.
	Christine Mehring 773-702-0253 mehring@uchicago.edu On leave 2008-2009.	Associate Professor of Art History and the College	20th century art, contemporary art, art theory and criticism.
	W.J.T. Mitchell 773.702.8475 wjtm@uchicago.edu On leave 2008-2009.	Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English Language and Literature, Art History, Committee on Art and Design, and the College; Editor, Critical Inquiry	Theory & Criticism
	Richard Neer 773.702.5890 rtneer@uchicago.edu	David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities, Art History and the College	Ancient Greek Art & Architecture; 17th century French painting; critical theory & aesthetics.
	Verity Platt 773.702.0270 vjplatt@uchicago.edu	Assistant Professor of Art History and the College	Ancient Greek & Roman Art & Architecture
	Joel Snyder 773.702.9497 jsnyder@uchicago.edu	Professor of Art History, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, Department of Visual Arts, and the College	History and theory of photography, critical theory, history and theory of perspective.
	Katherine Fischer Taylor 773.702.0255 k-taylor@uchicago.edu	Associate Professor of Art History and the College	19th & 20th Century Architecture & Urbanism
	Yuri Tsivian 773.702.0254 ytsivian@uchicago.edu	Professor of Art History, Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, and the College	Russian Cinema
	Ralph Ubl 773.702.8496 rubl@uchicago.edu	Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Visual Art in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Art History, and in the College
	Martha Ward 773.702.6590 mmward@uchicago.edu	Department Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Arts, and the College	19th & 20th Century Art
	Wu Hung 773.702.0274 hungwu@uchicago.edu	Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia; Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art	Early Chinese Art
	Rebecca Zorach 773.702.0268 rezorach@uchicago.edu On leave 2008-2009.	Associate Professor of Art History and the College	Late Medieval & Renaissance Art, Gender Studies, and Theory & Criticism

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Core Faculty