Art & Art History Faculty

Faculty in the Department of Art & Art History either teaching or doing sustainability-related research.

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

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

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

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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

Heather Layton

Layton, Heather

  • Associate Professor of Art

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

Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

  • Associate Professor
  • Chair, Department of Art and Art History

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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.