BARNARD COLLEGE
ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT
FALL 2014 GUIDE
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THE BARNARD ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT FALL 2014
Art History, which is devoted to the study of all the visual arts, is one of the broadest
fields in the humanities. It is concerned not only with the nature of works of art- their
form, style, and content - but also with the social, political, and cultural circumstances that
shape them. Introductory level courses encourage a basic and lifelong understanding and
appreciation of works of art. The rest of the curriculum offers a more advanced and
specialized knowledge of art, which can lead to many kinds of careers, including teaching,
museum administration and curating, business positions in galleries or auction houses,
publishing, criticism, collection advising, and conservation, as well as creative careers in
any medium. Students in many fields may also find that art history is relevant to their
studies. The department, fortunate in being located in New York City, one of the world’s
great art centers, takes full advantage of the rich resources of the city’s museums and
galleries.
Please refer to the Barnard College Art History website ww.barnard.edu/arthist
for up to date information on the latest Art History department news, events,
requirements, courses, faculty hours, links, and more. Please feel free to contact the
department if you have any questions.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN ART HISTORY
The Department offers both a major in Art History and a major in Art History with a
concentration in the Visual Arts. In each case, the student chooses a faculty adviser who
assists her in planning a program incorporating personal interests while meeting
departmental requirements. A minimum of 12 art history courses are required:
1. BC1001 and 1002 Introduction to Art History. This two-course sequence is required.
2. BC3970 Methods and Theories of Art History. To be taken during the junior or senior
year.
3. BC3959x and/or BC3960y Senior Research Seminar.
Students write their senior thesis in conjunction with the Senior Research Seminar.
(Please see description of the senior thesis below). Students will develop, research, and
write their thesis project in consultation with an individual faculty member in Art
History. They will also attend and participate in group seminars convened during the
academic year in which all students will present their work. Students who plan to study
abroad during their senior year and those who expect to graduate early must begin the
senior research seminar sequence in the second semester of the junior year.
4. Two Seminar Courses in Art History (may also be counted toward the historical and
regional distribution requirement.)
5. Seven elective courses, with the following requirements:
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Lecture or seminars courses can be used to fulfill the seven elective requirements. BC1001
and 1002 or any other broad survey can not be used to fulfill this requirement. Courses in
film are accepted toward the major requirements; studio courses are not.
Students must take at least one course in three of four historical periods:
Ancient (up to 400 CE/AD), 400-1400, 1400-1700, 1700-Present
*These chronological divisions are approximate. In case of
ambiguities about the eligibility of a course to fill the
requirement, please consult the department chair or your
advisor.
An additional two courses must also be drawn from at least TWO DIFFERENT world
regions, as listed below:
Africa, Asia and the Indigenous Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean/Indigenous
Americas, Middle East
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR IN ART HISTORY
The minor in Art History consists of five lecture courses, including BC1001, BC1002, and
three courses in the following areas of which students must have at least one be NonEuropean.
European and American: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern
Non-European: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, African, Meso-American, and Native
American
ART HISTORY SENIOR THESIS REQUIREMENTS
Description: All art history majors write a substantial research paper in their senior year.
There are two options for fulfilling this requirement: Seniors have the option of doing a
year-long thesis, or reworking and developing a seminar paper into a thesis through a onesemester participation in the Senior Thesis Seminar. The Senior Thesis Seminar would
function for those interested in working on a thesis over the course of a year, but those
deciding for the option of expanding a seminar paper would only join the course in the
second semester. The one-semester option is for students who prefer to take another
course rather than devote a year to one project.
Senior Thesis Options:
1. Students interested in participating in the year-long Senior Thesis Seminar should
write a brief (one-page) description of their thesis topic and submit it to the appropriate
adviser within the first two weeks of the fall semester. The potential adviser will
determine the feasibility of the study in question and accept or decline to become the
student’s adviser. Such a thesis should be approximately 30-50 pages long.
2. Students interested in expanding and enhancing a seminar paper will find a faculty
adviser, preferably the professor with whom they wrote the original paper, willing to
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help them in its transformation into a thesis. They will then join the Senior Thesis in the
spring semester of their senior year. In this context they will have an opportunity to
present their ideas to the
rest of the graduating class as well as members of the faculty so as to receive comments
and suggestions as to how to develop their arguments. One-semester theses should be
approximately 30 pages long.
Grades: Two grades will be awarded in connection with your work on the finished thesis.
One will evaluate the way in which you have fulfilled the requirements of the Senior
Research Seminar. That is, your participation and attendance in the Thesis Colloquium, the
energy you have put into the research, the effort you have made in producing an original
and challenging ar- gument as well as a solidly constructed and polished piece of prose.
Since the course is yearlong, students will receive a grade of Y (indicating year long
course) for the fall semester and will receive their grade at the end of the spring term for
the year. This grade will be assigned in the usual A through F spectrum. The other grade
will be awarded on the basis of the evaluation of the thesis itself. This evaluation will
consider whether or not the aims of the project were met: was the research sufficient
to warrant the conclusions, is the argument of the thesis original as well as coherent and
convincing, was the writing adequate to the ideas that had to be expressed? Very often the
instructor will ask another member of the faculty to comment on the paper as well. This
grade will either be a Pass with Distinction, a Pass or a Fail.
Note on Senior Thesis for Double and Combined Majors:
Please note the distinctions between the Double Major, the Double Major with a Single
Essay, and the Combined Major. In the Double Major students will do all of the required
course work for both majors and write two different Senior Essays that fulfill the
requirements of each department. In the Double Major with Single Essay students do all
of the required course work for the two majors and write only one essay read by an
adviser in each major field. In the Combined Major students follow the requirements for
coursework for a combined major and write a single senior essay also read by an adviser
in each major field.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN ART HISTORY WITH CONCENTRATION IN VISUAL ARTS
A minimum of twelve courses is required for the major in Art History with concentration in
the Visual Arts. Please note there is a max. of 30 studio credits including studio courses in
other subjects.
1. Seven Art History courses including:
BC 1001 and 1002 Introduction to Art History
One course in 19th or 20th Century Art
BC3031 Imagery and Form in the Arts (spring)
One seminar in art history
2. Five Studio courses including
BC3530 Advanced Studio (fall)
BC3959 Visual Arts Senior Research Project (spring)
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SENIOR PROJECT FOR THE VISUAL ARTS CONCENTRATION
Art History Majors concentrating in Visual Arts may elect to substitute the
Senior Thesis for the Senior Project. To do this they must:
1. Notify their adviser of their intention to do so by the end of their junior year.
2. Take Methods and Theories of Art History (BC3970) & the Sr. Research Seminar
(BC3959 and BC3960)
Description: The Senior Project in the Art History Visual Arts Concentration is usually
scheduled in the last year of the major. By that time you will have taken a variety of Art
History and studio courses, and will have some idea as to what direction your work
should take. Each student is responsible for the installation and dismantling of her own
Senior Project in the Senior Exhibition.
BC3999 Independent Project (Visual Arts senior thesis project) provides the time to
accomplish a senior project. The Senior Project is expected to be a cohesive body of work
based on original concepts and executed with some technical proficiency. An artist
statement and project description approximately seven to ten pages in length will
accompany the Senior Project outlining your artistic ambitions. This should include an
account of the kind of meaning you hope your work will have for the viewer as well as a
description of the artistic tradition on which your work is based.
Procedures: When you prepare to fulfill the Senior Project requirement meet with your
Visual Arts advisor. This is done the fall semester of your senior year in conjunction with
the Advanced Senior Studio course (BC3530). The content of your Senior Project should be
agreed upon by the Visual Arts instructors and yourself.
Grades: Two grades will be awarded in connection with your work on the Senior Project.
One will evaluate the way in which you have fulfilled the requirements of the Senior
Project course, that is, the regularity of your meetings and the effort you have made in
producing an original, cohesive, and well-executed Senior Project. This grade will be
assigned in the usual A through F spectrum. The other grade will be awarded on the basis
of the evaluation of the Senior Project itself. This evaluation will consider whether or not
the aims of the project were met: a pass with distinction, a pass or a fail.
REGISTERING FOR BARNARD ART HISTORY COURSES
All Barnard Art History undergraduate seminars (AHIS BC prefix) are limited to 15
students and require an application. BC AH applications are due in the Barnard art
history office, 500E Diana Center no later than Friday, April 4 at noon. The Art History
Department will post rosters outside the Barnard Art History department office, 5th floor
Diana Center. Please find the application at http://www.barnard.edu/arthist
The following Fall 2014 BC AH seminars require an application for admission.
AHIS BC3926
Sacred Landscapes/Ancient Americas
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AHIS BC3950
AHIS BC3968
AHIS BC3985
Photo and Video in Asia
Art/Criticism I
Intro to Connoisseurship
Columbia Art History undergraduate seminars are also due April 4th in the CU AH office in
Schermerhorn Hall. For further information and to download their application, visit
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/undergraduate/forms.html.
Note the Art History Senior Research Seminar and the Visual Arts Senior Project
Seminar are open to seniors and do not require an application. Methods and
Theories of Art History also does not require an application.
NEED A FORM SIGNED BY THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR OR PROGRAM DIRECTOR?
Please obtain the appropriate form (for example: major or minor form, change of advisor
form, study abroad form etc.) from the Registrar’s office. Fill out the form and drop it off in
the Art History office for either the department chair or program director to sign. It takes
approx. 2-3 days turnaround time for the form to be signed. Students are responsible for
picking up forms and depositing them with the registrar. If you have any questions, please
don’t hesitate to contact the office at arthistory@barnard.edu
ART HISTORY COURSE LISTINGS Fall 2014
All courses listed below are subject to change. Please confirm course information
(day/time/location), by going to the online course directory at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/.
For Further information on Columbia Art History Courses contact the Columbia Department of
Art History at 212-854-4505 or http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory.
ART HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE LECTURES FALL 2014
AHIS BC1001 INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY I
Attempting to offer an introduction to artistic creation on a global scale, this course is team-taught by
specialists in a number of different cultural and historical traditions. In the fall semester we will
discuss the art of Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan, and China, in periods ranging from the
Paleolithic to the Renaissance. Teaching assistants run weekly sections to supplement the lectures.
Museum trips are an integral part of the course.
Call Number: 01791 Points: 4
Day/Time: MW 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: 304 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Megan O’Neil
AHIS C3001 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE: WESTERN ARCHITECTURE
Satisfies the architectural history/theory distribution requirement for majors, but is also open to
students wanting a general humanistic approach to architecture and its history. Architecture
analyzed through in-depth case studies of major monuments of sacred, public, and domestic space,
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from the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia to Fallingwater and the Guggenheim.
Call Number: 45999 Points: 3
Day/Time T/TH 1:10-11:25 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Francesco Benelli
AHIS V3201 THE ARTS OF CHINA
An introduction to the arts of China, from the Neolithic period to the present, stressing materials
and processes of bronze casting, the development of representational art, principles of text
illustration, calligraphy, landscape painting, imperial patronage, and the role of the visual arts in
elite culture.
Call Number: 72826 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 10:10am -11:25am Location: To be announced
Instructor: Robert Harrist
AHIS V3248 GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek world during the archaic, classical, and
Hellenistic periods (11th-1st centuries B.C.E.).Discussion Section Required.
Call Number: 17107 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 11:40-12:55 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
AHUM V3340 ART IN CHINA, JAPAN, AND KOREA
Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea—their similarities and
differences—through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting,
sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/Time: M/W 10:10-11:25 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Dawn Delbanco
AHIS W3600 NINETEENTH CENTURY ART
This course studies the European visual arts of the long nineteenth century. Beginning with the
radical changes of the Enlightenment and ending with the glamorous portraits of the Belle Epoque,
AHIS W 3600 covers a century of rapid stylistic, political and technological changes. The careers and
works of individual artists, formal innovation, invention of new media, materials, institutional
structures and ideological functions will all be considered in relation to each other. The emphasis of
the course will be on the patterns of visual culture and the ways in which those patterns change over
time.
Call Number: Points: 3
Day/Time: M/W 1:10-2:25 Location: TBA
Instructor: Anne Higonnet
AHIS V3673 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This course will survey selected social, cultural and aesthetic or technical developments in the history
of photography, from the emergence of the medium in the 1820s and 30s through to the present day.
Rather than attempt comprehensively to review every aspect of photography and its legacies in the
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will instead trace significant developments
through a series of case studies. Some of the latter will focus on individuals, genres or movements, and
others on various discourses of the photographic image. Particular attention will be placed on
methodological and theoretical concerns pertaining to the medium. - N. Elcott
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Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 1:10-2:25 Location: TBA
Instructor: Noam Elcott
AHIS BC3682 EARLY MODERNISM AND THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION
This course studies the emergence and development of Modernism in all of its complexity. Particular
attention will be paid to the ways in which Modern artists responded to the dramatically changing
notions of space, time and dimension in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. What impact
did these dramatic changes have on existing concepts of representation? What challenges did they
pose for artists? To what extent did Modernism contribute to an understanding of the full
consequences of these new ideas of time and space? These concerns will lead us to examine some of
the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts as they were developed between the
1860s and the 1920s. - A. Alberro
Call Number: TBA Points: 3
Day/Time: T/Th 2:40-3:55 Location TBA
Instructor: Alexander Alberro
ART HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE BRIDGE LECTURES FALL 2014
Please note: 4000 level lectures are known as “BRIDGE LECTURES” and are introductory graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates.
AHIS W4089 NATIVE AMERICAN ART
This introduction to Native North American art surveys traditions of painting, sculpture, ceramics,
textiles, photography and architecture and traces the careers of contemporary Indian modernists and
postmodernists. It emphasizes artistic developments as a means of preserving culture and resisting
domination in response to intertribal contact, European colonization and American expansion
Call Number: 4089 Points: 3
Day/Time: T/TH 4:10-5:25 Location: TBA
Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
AHIS W4155 MESOPOTAMIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Introduction to the art and architecture of Mesopotamia beginning with the establishment of the first
cities in the fourth millennium B.C.E. through the fall of Babylon to Alexander of Macedon in the fourth
century B.C.E. Focus on the distinctive concepts and uses of art in the Assyro-Babylonian tradition. No
laptops or any other electronic devices.
Call Number: Points: 3
Day/Time: M/W 2:10-3:55 Location: TBA
Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
ART HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS FALL 2014
BARNARD ART HISTORY SEMINARS (AHIS BC PREFIX) ARE LIMITED TO 15
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND REQUIRE AN APPLICATION. APPLICATIONS ARE
DUE FRIDAY APRIL 4TH , IN THE BC AH OFFICE. Please find a pdf of the application to print
out on the bc ah website: www.barnard.edu/arthist.
COLUMBIA ART HISTORY SEMINARS ALSO REQUIRE AN APPLICATION. CU AH SEMINAR
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE IN THE CU AH OFFICE IN SCHERMERHORN BY April 15th – PLEASE
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SEE THEIR WEBSITE.
AHIS BC3926 SACRED LANDSCAPES of the ANCIENT AMERICAS
This seminar will examine conceptions of sacred or otherwise revered landscapes and how artists and
architects worked to capture, frame, or emulate landscape features in order to venerate and harness
the potency of these features and associated deities. We will study concepts and theories concerning
sacrality and sacred landscapes and explore select sites in North, Central, and South America as case
studies, looking both at patterns and differences in sites and cultures across the Americas.
Call Number: Points: 4
Day/Time: W 10-11:50 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Megan O’Neil
AHIS C3948 19TH CENTURY CRITICISM
Selected readings in 19th-century philosophy, literature and art criticism with emphasis on
problems of modernity and aesthetic experience. Texts include work by Diderot, Kant, Coleridge,
Hegel, Emerson, Flaubert, Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.
Call Number: TBA Points: TBA
Day/Time: T 10:10 am-11:25 am Location: To be announced
Instructor: Jonathan Crary
AHIS BC3950 PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO IN ASIA
East Asia is now perhaps the world's most dynamic region, and its dramatic social and economic
transformation has been mirrored in the work of a host of startlingly original and innovative visual
artists. The class will explore the ideas and visual idioms that inform the leading contemporary
photo artists in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will begin with a historical survey
of the development of photography in East Asia since the mid-19th century, but we will concentrate
on the period from 1960 to the present. Figures whose work will be explored include such Japanese
artists and photographers as Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Tomatsu Shomei, Miyako Ishiuchi,
Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, Moriko Mori, Naoya Hatakeyema, and Tomoko Sawada.
From China, we will examine the work of artists like Zhang Huan, Hong Hao, Yang Fudong, Lin
Tianmiao, and Xing Danwen, while Korean artists to be covered include Atta Kim and Yeondoo Jung.
Since many of these artists work regularly in video as well as photography, there will be regular
video screenings throughout the semester.
Call Number: 04024 Points: 4
Day/Time W 6-8 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Christopher Phillips
AHIS BC3959 SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Course open to Barnard Art History majors only. Independent research for the senior thesis.
Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in
art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.
Call Number: Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10 pm-8:00 pm Location: To be announced
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
AHIS BC3968 ART/CRITICISM I
Contemporary art criticism written by artists in the post war period. Such criticism differs from
academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a
point of engagement. It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art
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market activity and more concerned with polemics. The course will trace the course of these
developments by examining the art and writing of one artist each week. These will include Brian
O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland, Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson, Art &
Language, Dan Graham, Adrian Piper, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Judith Barry and Andrea Fraser.
We will consider theoretical and practical implications of each artist's oeuvre.
Call Number: 07232 Points: 4
Day/Time: T 11-12:50 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Nicolas Guagnini
AHIS BC3985 INTRODUCTION TO CONNOISSEURSHIP
Course taught at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Factors involved in judging works of art, with
emphasis on paintings; materials, technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and
fakes; questions of relative quality.
Call Number: 05399 Points: 4
Day/Time: M 9-10:50 am Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Instructor: Maryan Ainsworth
AHIS BC3970 METHODS & THEORIES OF ART HISTORY
(LIMITED TO BARNARD SENIOR ART HISTORY MAJORS)
Introduction to critical writings that have shaped histories of art, including texts on iconography
and iconology, the psychology of perception, psychoanalysis, social history, feminism and gender
studies, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism.
SECTION 1 -Call Number: 08145 Points: 4
Day/Time: Th 12:10-2 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Alexander Alberro
SECTION 2 -Call Number: 06349 Points: 4
Day/Time: T 2:10-4 Location: To be announced
Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
AHIS W3XXX AFRICAN AMERICAN VISUAL AND DECORATIVE ARTS, 1650-1900
Course Description to Come
Call Number: TBA Points: TBA
Day/Time: W 11:00 am-12:50 pm Location: To be announced
Instructor: Kellie Jones
AHIS W3XXX YORUBA AND THE DIASPORA
Course Description to Come
Call Number: TBA Points: TBA
Day/Time: M 4:10-6:00pm Location: To be announced
Instructor: Zoe Strother
BARNARD STUDIO COURSES FALL 2014
Note: Barnard studio courses are limited to 15 students with instructor’s permission. Instructor decides
the roster on the first day of class. For further information please contact the Barnard Art History
Department @ arthistory@barnard.edu
AHIS BC2012 DRAWING STUDIO: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
Drawing is a foundation for all other forms of visual art. This studio course is primarily a workshop
augmented by home assignments, visiting artist lectures and museum/gallery visits. This class is
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open to all students from introductory to more advanced levels. The semester is divided into two
sections: (1) Perspective and (2) The Body. Starting with perspective, the goal is to explore the
history and contemporary importance of this form; then shift to the body, where the goal is to build
a visual language that records the human form in space and in time. This course uses the practice of
drawings as a tool to interrogate the meaning of observation in the practice of art.
Call Number: 04250 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 9:00am -12:50pm Location: 402 Diana Center
Instructor: Leslie Hewitt
AHIS BC2005 PAINTING I & AHIS BC2007 PAINTING III
This course will focus on individual and collaborative projects designed to explore the fundamental
principles of image making. Students acquire a working knowledge of concepts in contemporary art
through class critiques, discussion, and individual meetings with the professor. Reading materials will
provide historical and philosophical background to the class assignments. Class projects will range
from traditional to experimental and multi-media. Image collections will be discussed in class with an
awareness of contemporary image production.
Call Number: 05809 (I), 04593 (III) Points: 3
Day/Time: W 2:10pm -6:00pm Location: 402 Diana Center
Instructor: Joan Snitzer
AHIS BC2015 SYNTHESIS: AN APPROACH TO MIXED-MEDIA
Synthesis: the composition, combination or transformation of parts or elements to form a whole. This
studio course will explore the unique position of combining various mediums and techniques in the
visual arts platform. What does it mean to use principles of drawing in the making of a photograph?
Why explore sculptural forms through the materiality of painting? The course will look closely at a
select group of contemporary artists who move fluidly through various forms and modes of
working. The course consists of the following key areas: material, form, concept, intersection and
synthesis. Through out the studio course, students will address conceptual, formal and processoriented issues related to working across mediums in the visual arts.
Call Number: 09172 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 4:10pm -8:00pm Location: 402 Diana Center
Instructor: Leslie Hewitt
AHIS BC3003 SUPERVISED PROJECTS IN PHOTOGRPAHY
This course is designed for Barnard students to conduct independent projects in
photography. Students are required to take technical classes at ICP (International Center of
Photography) in conjunction with this class. The cost of the ICP courses will be covered for Barnard
College students only.
Call Number: 07389 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 11:00am -12:50pm Location: 402 Diana Center
Instructor: Nicolas Guagnini
AHIS BC3530 ADVANCED STUDIO
Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. An interpretive study of the
theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in
contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork
and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings.
Call Number: 01726 Points: 4
Day/Time: M 2:10pm -6:00pm Location: 402 Diana Center
Instructor: Joan Snitzer
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BARNARD COLLEGE ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT FACULTY DIRECTORY
General Office: 500E Diana Center 212-854-2118
Office Hours: 9:30 - 5:30 Monday –Friday
Department Administrator: Elisabeth Sher esher@barnard.edu
Maryan Ainsworth, Ph.D (Yale University)
Adjunct Professor
Professor Ainsworth teaches the undergraduate seminar Introduction to Connoisseurship at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Contact Information: maryan.ainsworth@metmuseum.org
Alexander Alberro, Ph.D (Northwestern University)
Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History
Professor Alberro teaches courses in modern art, contemporary art, and the history of photography.
Contact Information:
503C Diana Center
Telephone: 212-854-0311
Email: aalberro@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-3:30 or by appointment
Rosalyn Deutsche, Ph.D (CUNY)
Visiting Professor
Professor Deutsche teaches courses in modern and contemporary art, feminist theory, and urban
theory.
Contact Information:
500G Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-8485
Email: deutsche@erols.com
Office Hours: Thursdays, 10-12 or by appointment
Nicolas Guagnini, Adjunct Lecturer
Professor Guagnini teaches the Art/Criticism and Supervised Projects in Photography (Fall 2014).
E-Mail: nguagnini@barnard.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment
Leslie Hewitt, M.F.A. (Yale University)
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Professor Hewitt teaches Drawing Studio: Extended Projects and Synthesis: An Approach to Mixed
Media.
Contact Information:
500L Diana Center
Telephone: (212)-851-2963
Email: lhewitt@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
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Anne Higonnet, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Professor
Anne Higonnet teaches courses on the nineteenth century, on museums, and on the history of the
history of art.
Contact Information:
500M Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-5050
E-Mail: ahigonne@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 10-12 or by appointment
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Associate Professor
Elizabeth Hutchinson teaches courses on American visual culture from the colonial period through
the early twentieth century. Her classes focus on both fine art and mass culture and trace the
material expressions of the diverse populations of North America, including Anglo-Americans,
African-Americans and Native Americans.
Contact Information:
500L Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-5340
E-mail: ehutchin@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5 or by appointment
John Miller, M.F.A. (California Institute of the Arts)
Professor of Professional Practice
Professor Miller teaches the seminar Art Criticism, and Supervised Projects in Photography.
Contact Information:
500D Diana Center
Telephone: (212)-854-1697
Email: jmiller@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Monday 3-5
Keith Moxey, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
BARNARD ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Barbara Novak Professor of Art History
Professor Moxey teaches the history of Northern Renaissance art as well as courses dealing with
the history of art history and with issues of theory and interpretation.
Contact Information:
500R Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-5039
E-mail: kmoxey@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 4:15-5:30
Megan O'Neil, Ph.D. (Yale)
Term Assistant Professor of Art History
Profresor O'Neil teaches the history of Pre-Columbian art and architecture.
Contact Information:
503A Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 851-2963
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E-mail: moneil@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5 Wednesday 4:10-5:10
Christopher Phillips M.F.A. (RIT)
Senior Curator, International Center of Photography.
Adjunct Professor
Professor Phillips teaches an undergraduate seminar on Contemporary Asian Photography in the
fall semester.
Contact Information:
E-mail: cphillips@icp.org
Jonathan Reynolds, Ph.D (Stanford University)
Associate Professor
Professor Reynolds teaches Japanese architecture of the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries.
Contact Information:
500P Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-5396
E-Mail: jmreynol@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Monday 2-3 and Tuesday 10-11 or by appointment
Valerie Smith, Adjunct Professor
Professor Smith teaches the undergraduate seminar Curating Exhibitions that Defined a Generation,
1969 to the Present.
Contact Information:
E-Mail: vsmith@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 12-1 and by appointment
Joan Snitzer, M.F.A. (Hunter College)
DIRECTOR, BARNARD VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
Senior Lecturer
Professor Snitzer teaches visual arts and the undergraduate seminar Imagery and Form in the Arts
Contact Information:
500C Diana Center
Telephone: (212) 854-3546
E-Mail: jsnitzer@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1-2