Art History Program Director: Juliet Bellow
My research investigates the function, accessibility, and control of constantly evolving sacred spaces in medieval and early modern Italy. My book, Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Flor…
Juliet Bellow’s research centers on visual artists' experimentations with intermediality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the P…
Professor Butler (PhD with distinction Johns Hopkins University 2003, BA with honors, Harvard University 1992) is Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History in American University in t…
Nika Elder specializes in North American art from the colonial period to the present, including African-American art and the history of photography. Her current research and courses examine the mutual…
Dr. Peng specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese art history with a focus on gender issues and globalization of material culture. Before joining the American University she worked at the Natio…
Sam Sadow is the Visual Resources Curator and an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Art Department of American University. His roles include managing the department's growing digital image collectio…
Dr. Nicewinter specializes in the art and archaeology of ancient Peru, specifically the north highland Cajamarca culture during the Middle Horizon. Her research investigates the way that Cajamarca pai…
Sam Sadow is the Visual Resources Curator and an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Art Department of American University. His roles include managing the department's growing digital image collectio…
A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in nineteenth-century French and Italian painting, Norma Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Degas, Caillebotte, Ca…
Best known for her groundbreaking feminist scholarship, Garrard has drawn on feminist theory and activism to illuminate and reinterpret art of the Italian Renaissance-Baroque period. Her publications …
Professor Helen Langa (now retired) taught a sequence of courses on American Art from the colonial era to the late 20th century with an emphasis on issues related to national identity, politics, race…
Dr. Andrea Pearson specializes in the visual culture of late medieval and early modern northern Europe, with research interests pertaining to women, gender, and sexuality in the southern Low Countries…