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Faculty

	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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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