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Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Adams, Cary

Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

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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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Peter Christensen

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
Web Address
Website

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
Web Address
Website

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

Web Address
Website

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

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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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Heather Layton

Layton, Heather

Associate Professor of Art

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 755-6819
Web Address
Website

Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art

Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge

Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne

Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Web Address
Website

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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Maier, Lorna

Administrative Assistant, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
506 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9249

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Radlo-Dzur, Alanna Simone

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Assistant Professor of Art and Art History

Office Location
513 Morey Hall

Interests: Native American and Indigenous studies; Mesoamerican art and cultural studies; Museum studies and critique; Latin American histories and historiography Indigenous epistemes and ways of knowing The sensorium and phenomenology; Indigenous epistemes and ways of knowing; The sensorium and phenomenology; The sensorium and phenomenology; Histories and materialities of the book, printing, writing, and mark-making; Early Modern circulation of art and ideas; Invention of race, colonialisms, nationalisms; Gender, sexuality and the social construction of identities; Storytelling, performance, and ethnohistory; Fakes, forgeries, the antiquities market, and tourism; Photography, moving image art, and Indigenous Futurisms; Translation, multilingual communication, and the digital humanities; Indigenous languages and their revitalization

Rachel Remmel.

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.

Grace Seiberling

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

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Shin, Mizin

Assistant Professor of Art

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Web Address
Website

Interests: Printmaking and Digital Media; Immersive Installation; Emerging techniques in contemporary printmaking; Interdependency of societal systems; Chaos Theory; Phenomena network; Emergence

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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
Web Address
Website

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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Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Associate Professor

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

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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Sharon Willis

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