Faculty

Malcolm Baker

Malcolm Baker
Distinguished Professor (On Research Leave 2012-13)

History of sculpture, especially in 18th century Britain, France and Germany; portraiture; 18th century British art, history of collecting and display.

(951) 827-4634
mcbaker@ucr.edu

Jonathan Green

Jonathan W. Green
Professor and Executive Director of the UCR/ARTSblock

History and criticism of photography and the practice of photography, video and MIDI composition.

(951) 827-4787
jonathan.green@ucr.edu

Jeanette Kohl

Jeanette Kohl
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor

Renaissance art with a focus on Italy; portraiture, sculpture and materiality; 
methodology, art theory, and intellectual history; additional research interests in modern and contemporary German art and art criticism.

(951) 827-5919
jkohl@ucr.edu

Liz Kotz

Liz Kotz
Associate Professor, Website Coordinator

Modern and contemporary art history; experimental film, video and performance; psychoanalysis and critical theory, media theories and media technologies.

(951) 827-4634
ewkotz@ucr.edu

Susan Laxton

Susan Laxton
Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

History and theory of photography; European avant-garde art of the 20th century, particularly its engagements with chance and psychoanalysis; critical theory.

(951) 827-4634
slaxton@ucr.edu

Patricia Morton

Patricia Morton
Associate Professor, Chair

European and American Architectural History 1880-1980; Japanese domestic architecture; Architectural, urban, and Post-colonial theory.

(951) 827-2698
patricia.morton@ucr.edu

Kristoffer Neville

Kristoffer Neville
Assistant Professor (On Research Leave 2012-13)

Early modern painting, sculpture, and (especially) architecture. Cultural contacts and cultural transfer. Northern Europe, ca 1500-1800.

(951) 827-5057
kneville@ucr.edu

Conrad

Conrad Rudolph
Professor

Medieval Art History with special interests in such topics as the social theory of medieval art, the ideological use of art, monasticism and art, the origin of Gothis art, and the art and social change.

(951) 827-4240
conrad.rudolph@ucr.edu

Jason Weems

Jason Weems
Assistant Professor (On Research Leave Winter and Spring 2013)

American art and visual/material culture from the colonial era to the present, with research emphasis on the later nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries; history of photography; art and social movements; modern design; vision and technology; critical and interdisciplinary theory.

(951) 827-5922
jweems@ucr.edu

Cooperating Faculty

Catherine Gudis, Associate Professor, Department of History
Twentieth-century U.S. cultural history; consumer culture, the history of the built environment; public history
(951) 827-5823
catherine.gudis@ucr.edu

Karl Taube, Professor of Anthropology
Cooperating faculty with Art History, specialist in Mesoamerican art and archaeology.(951) 827-3917
karl.taube@ucr.edu


Emeritus Faculty

Françoise Forster-Hahn, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
francoise.forster@ucr.edu

Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsu, Associate Professor Emeritus
ginger.hsu@ucr.edu

Dericksen M Brinkerhoff, Professor Emeritus
dericksen.brinkerhoff@ucr.edu

Thomas Pelzel, Associate Professor Emeritus

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