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Adams, Cary
Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
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Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
Ashenfelder, Stephanie
Director, Digital Media Studies
Academic Director, Studio Arts
- Office Location
- 206 Morey Hall
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Berlo, Janet Catherine
Professor Emerita
- Office Location
- 513 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: Native American art and visual culture; The politics of representation; Museum studies and critique; Quilt, craft, and “folk art”; History and historiography; Issues of materiality both old and new
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Chiarenza, Carl
Professor Emeritus
Artist in Residence
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- (585) 442-1751
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Christensen, Peter
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Art and Art History
Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
- Office Location
- 212C Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7173
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Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities
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Duro, Paul
Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 514 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing
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Enck, Joshua
Lecturer
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
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Interests: Abstract sculpture; architectural design and drawing; furniture design and woodworking; metalworking; recent Fulbright Scholar in India researching traditional metal vessel making techniques
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Gennari, Carolyn
She/Her/They/Them
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
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Interests: Archives, memory, and historiography; Museum studies; Interdisciplinary art and artistic research; Community art practices; Site-specificity; Artist as curator; Sculpture; Video arts and projection; Performance and the body; Visual culture, perception, and histories of media
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Haidu, Rachel
Associate Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 506A Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4112
Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies
Heuer, Christopher P.
Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 521 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6052
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement
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Layton, Heather
Associate Professor of Art
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 755-6819
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Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art
Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne
Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
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Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents
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Pilcher, Kirby
Lecturer
Interests: Photography; Artist books
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Remmel, Rachel
Assistant Dean and Director, Teaching Center
- Office Location
- 208A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4367
Interests: Architectural history; museum studies; 19th-century US art history and history; social power; institutional history; building types such as schools and houses; artistic practice; the construction of the categories of art and artist; theories about the formative power of architecture
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Sayadi, Nader
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Visiting Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 522 Morey Hall
Interests: Themes: Power and agency; Modes of production and consumption; Transmission of knowledge; Orientalism; Nationalism, and Historiography.; Topics: Architecture and city (patronage, spaces of manufacturing, landscapes of borderlands); Pre-industrial manufacturing (know-how of making things (mainly textiles), chaîne opératoire, and their social relations); Textiles and dress (social and political implications of fibers and dyes, weaving techniques and technologies, design, and pattern making).; Contexts: West and South Asia, Islamic World, Indian Ocean; 17th- 19th centuries.
Seiberling, Grace
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 523 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4169
Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums
Shin, Mizin
Assistant Professor of Art
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
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Interests: Printmaking and Digital Media; Immersive Installation; Emerging techniques in contemporary printmaking; Interdependency of societal systems; Chaos Theory; Phenomena network; Emergence
Slobogin, Christine
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Joint Appointment in Art and Art History
- Office Location
- G-7011C in Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, URMC
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Interests: The medical humanities; Visual culture of plastic and reconstructive surgery; Medical photography and photographic anonymity; Cartoons and visual humor; Ethics and emotions in medical visual culture; The body and the museum
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Topolski, Allen
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- Office Location
- Sage Art Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5994
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Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.
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Willis, Sharon
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 517 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5757
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature
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Xu, Tingting
Assistant Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 519 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0169
Interests: Early Chinese photography and media studies; Theories and historiography of Chinese painting; Formats of East Asian pictorial arts in cultural exchange; Antiquarianism and visual technology; Folding and folds; The unspoken and the unspeakable