Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College, Department Chair, Modern Art and Aesthetics

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Professor Pop is interested in narrative art, the relation between thinking and imaging, and between subjectivity and reality in art of the modern period. He is particularly interested in the aesthetics of ugliness and symbol-making.

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Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Department Chair            

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Joseph Koerner teaches the history of art and architecture from the late Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on Northern Renaissance art, as well as on Dutch seventeenth-century, European Romanticism, and German and Austrian Modernism.

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Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Professor Atkinson’s research focuses on public space, urban history, soundscapes, geography and travel as well as the architecture and urbanism of late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, and explores the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in the construction of pre-modern urban societies. 

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Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture & Director of Graduate Studies

UCLA

Professor Cohen teaches the art and architecture of medieval Western Europe.  Her research focuses on the production, use, and reception of architecture and urban spaces, as well as cultural heritage and historiography related to medieval architecture, particularly the Gothic in France.

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William Arnell and Everett Land Professor & Chair [of the History of Art]

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Professor Merback specializes in late medieval and northern Renaissance art.  His two primary scholarly focuses are the roles art objects and visual culture can play in the formation of historical subjects, and the phenomenologies of the Christian devotional image.

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Professor, Renaissance and Early Modern Art, Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art, and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies

UCLA

Professor Wilson specializes in Renaissance and Early Modern Art and her teaching explore the artistic and urban cultures of early modern Europe, with a focus on space, print, portraiture, landscape, and transcultural, material and environmental interactions.

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Professor, Diversity Champion; W.H. Collins Vickers Chair in Archaeology  

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Professor Feldman teaches both in the Departments of the History of Art and Near Eastern Studies. She has expertise in the arts of the ancient Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean from the third through the first millennia BCE.

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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art & Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Professor Wang specializes in Asian Buddhist art and Chinese art history. His research focuses on the cognitive study of art, exploring how images function as worldmaking systems and how art extends into biocosmic and psychocosmic dimensions.

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