Faculty

Associate Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 307
860-685-3682

kkuenzli@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA University of California
PHD University of California

ARHA110 - 01
Introduction to Western Art

ARHA339 - 01
Wagner and Modernism

Personal Web Site:
http://kkuenzli.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment, office 307 in the Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Scholarly Keywords:
European modernism

BA Beloit College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

CHUM330 - 01
Facts(?) in Renaissance Art

ARHA110 - 01
Introduction to Western Art

ARHA224 - 01
16C Italian Art/Architecture

ARHA402 - 04
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

ARHA404 - 02
Dept/Program Project or Essay

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesdays, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment, office 309 in the Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Prof. Nadja Aksamija teaches a range of courses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architectural history. Her primary research interests revolve around villa architecture, literature and ideology during the Counter Reformation, but she also works on late Renaissance sacred landscapes more broadly. She has examined them in a series of articles in the context of emblematics, cartography, garden design and landscape painting. Her first book, An Adriatic Renaissance: The Culture and Ideology of the Villa in Sixteenth-Century Dubrovnik, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. A major study of Pope Gregory XIII's Sala Bologna at the Vatican, which she co-edited, was published by Marsilio in 2011. The Sala Bologna research project also resulted in the production, by Factum Arte, of a facsimile of the monumental map of Bologna for the new Museo della Storia di Bologna. Prof. Aksamija's work has been supported by numerous awards, such as the Getty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collaborative Grant. In 2012-13, she will be a fellow at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, where she will complete a book on the visual and textual rhetoric of the villa in late sixteenth-century Bologna.

Scholarly Keywords:
Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture

BA Earlham College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University

ARHA180 - 01
Great Traditions Of Asian Art

ARHA287 - 01
East Asian Painting

ARHA180 - 01
Great Traditions Of Asian Art

ARHA283 - 01
The Traditional Arts Of Japan

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesday 4:00-5:00 or by appointment jbest@wesleyan.edu ext. 3025, office 310 in the Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Jonathan Best received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976; unusual for its time it was a joint degree from the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations. Subsequently he has taught East Asian art history at the University of Virginia and Wesleyan University, but his research and publications-all focused on early Korea-have addressed religious history, diplomatic and political history, as well as art history. His current research centers on the critical historiographic analysis of the Samguk sagi, the oldest surviving history of Korea. Initiating what promises to be a long-term, multi-volume project is his monograph, A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche-together with an annotated translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2006).

Scholarly Keywords:
East Asian art history, early Korean and Japanese Buddhist art and cultural history

Associate Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 307
860-685-3682

kkuenzli@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA University of California
PHD University of California

ARHA110 - 01
Introduction to Western Art

ARHA339 - 01
Wagner and Modernism

Personal Web Site:
http://kkuenzli.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment, office 307 in the Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Scholarly Keywords:
European modernism

Kenan Professor of the Humanities
860-685-3024

Professor of Art History
Davison Art Center 204
860-685-3024

Faculty Fellow, College of the Environment
284 High Street 203
860-685-2084

Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-2084

Chair, Archaeology Program
860-685-3024

Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-2084

cmaines@wesleyan.edu

BA Bucknell University
MA Pennsylvania State University
PHD Pennsylvania State University
MAA Wesleyan University

ARHA401 - 04
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

ARHA403 - 04
Dept/Program Project or Essay

ARHA402 - 02
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

ENVS387 - 01
Water's Past--Water's Future

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Thursdays, 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. or by appointment, Office 203 in the College of the Envirmonment.  Students are encouraged to email for appointments rather than to call.

Scholarly Keywords:
Medieval archaeology, Medieval architecture and art, monastic life

BA Harvard University
MA Syracuse University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University

AFAM409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

ARHA293 - 01
Art in Africa and Diaspora

AFAM310 - 01
Iberian Expansion into Africa

AFAM410 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial

ARHA299 - 01
African History And Art

Office Hours:
By Appointment

Research Interests:
I am currently completing a book that traces seventeenth-century Jewish and New Christian traders from Portugal to Amsterdam and thence to West Africa.

Scholarly Keywords:
History of West Africa, European-African contact from the Renaissance African art African-American Art

Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 304
860-685-3148

Professor, American Studies
41 Wyllys Ave
860-685-3148

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3148

Chair, American Studies

emilroy@wesleyan.edu

BA Queens University
MA Williams College
PHD University of Pennsylvania

AMST205 - 01
Managing the Past

AMST409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial

ARHA270 - 01
Rebellion & Representation

ARHA409 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial

AMST402 - 15
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

AMST404 - 02
Dept/Program Project or Essay

AMST412 - 01
Group Tutorial, Undergraduate

ARHA276 - 01
The First Gilded Age

ARHA410 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

ARHA412 - 01
Group Tutorial, Undergraduate

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesdays, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment, Office 304 in the new Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Elizabeth Milroy teaches the history of art and material culture in North America. Her courses range from general surveys of art in the United States and Canada from First Contact to 1945, to courses treating the history of sculpture and courses in the history of cultural landscapes and historic preservation to advanced seminars in cultural institutions and exhibitionary practices as well as the work of individual artists such as Thomas Eakins and Georgia O'Keeffe. She also teaches a junior colloquium on material culture studies for the America Studies program. A specialist in the history of cultural institutions and cultural landscapes in the United States, in particular those in Philadelphia, she has organized exhibitions and has published numerous articles and catalogue essays. Her most recent publications include "For the like Uses, as the Moore-Fields: The Politics of Penns Squares,"in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2006); "Repairing the Myth and Reality of Penn's Squares: 1800-1850," in Change Over Time (2011). Her essay, "Pro Bono Publico: Ecology, History and the Creation of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System" is forthcoming in Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds, edited by Michael Chiarrappa and Brian Black (University of Pittsburgh Press; for 2012). Her current book project is "The Grid and the River: A History of Philadelphia's Green Spaces, 1682-1882."

Scholarly Keywords:
American Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Canadian Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Cultural Landscape Studies Material Culture Studies

Academic Associations:
College Art Association American Studies Association American Society for Environmental History Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Historical Society of Pennsylvania External Examiner, Sotheby's Institute of Art (University of Manchester, UK), 2007-10 Winterthur Portfolio Editorial Board

Grants:
NEH Research Fellowship, 2002 Project Grant, Wesleyan University, 2001 Pedagogical Grant, Wesleyan University 1997/98 Keck Mentorship Grant. Wesleyan University 1997 Charles Peterson Fellowship in Architectural History. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1996/97 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1996 Mellon Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia 1995 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1992 Mellon Residential Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society 1992 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 1992 NEH Summer Stipend 1992 NEH Travel to Collections Grant 1992 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Grant 1991 NEH Exhibition Planning Grant 1989 Penfield Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1983

Winterthur Portfolio

Change Over Time

Curator, Davison Art Center
Davison Art Center
860-685-2966

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
860-685-2966

crogan@wesleyan.edu

ARHA265 - 01
Dialogue with Photography

ARHA265 - 02
Dialogue with Photography

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment, Office 123 in the Davison Art Center

Research Interests:
Prints, drawings and photographs, European art and visual culture, 1848-1945, queer visual studies, museum studies

BA Princeton University
MAR University of Pennsylvania
PHD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAA Wesleyan University

AMST407 - 01
Senior Tutorial

ARHA258 - 01
Contemporary Architecture

ARHA258 - AU01
Contemporary Architecture

ARHA409 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial

UNIV407 - 01
Senior Tutorial

ARHA254 - 01
Architecture of 20th Century

ARHA404 - 01
Dept/Program Project or Essay

ARHA410 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. or by appointment, Office 302 in the new Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Joseph Siry is professor of modern architectural history. His books are Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store (Chicago, 1988); Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, 1996); The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago, 2002), which won the 2003 Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for best book by a North American scholar; and Beth Sholom: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture (Chicago, 2012). He also published book chapters, and articles in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Art Bulletin, the first of which won College Art Association's 1991 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for the outstanding article by a younger scholar. He was given Wesleyan's Binswanger Award for Teaching Excellence in 1994. His work has been funded by the N.E.H., the Getty Research Institute, the Mellon Foundation, and the Graham Foundation.

Scholarly Keywords:
Modern and American architectural and urban history

Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 311
860-685-3779

Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779

pwagoner@wesleyan.edu

BA Kenyon College
PHD University of Wisconsin

ARHA181 - 01
Mughal India:Intro Art History

ARHA286 - 01
Empire And Erotica

ARHA409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial

ARHA410 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: On Sabbatical

Research Interests:
Phillip B. Wagoner's research focuses on the cultural history of the Deccan region of South India, primarily in the late medieval and early modern periods (1200-1600). His primary interest is in the historical interactions between the region's established Indic culture and the Persianate culture that arrived when the Delhi Sultanate annexed the region in the early fourteenth century. To study the dynamics of this process, he relies on a broad range of literary, epigraphic, architectural, and archaeological evidence, gathered over the course of numerous trips to the field since the early 1980s. Since 1987, he has been associated with the Vijayanagara Research Project, an international team of scholars in different disciplines dedicated to documentation and interpretation of the site of Vijayanagara, capital of the state that dominated the southern part of the Indian peninsula between the 1340s and 1565. This work has led to the publication of two books; one on late sixteenth-century understandings of Vijayanagara based on a Telugu historiographic text written in the region some 35 years after the collapse of the state (Tidings of the King: a Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1993), and the other a 3-volume work presenting comprehensive architectural documentation of the over 400 temples and other structures preserved in one key zone of the site (co-authored with George Michell,Vijayanagara: Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and Manohar, 2001). He has also published numerous articles on various topics relating to Vijayanagara, including the pre-Vijayanagara history of the site, the reuse of architectural components retrieved from earlier buildings, the system of elite dress at the Vijayanagara court, the ability of political elites to move between the Indic and Persianate worlds, and the significance of Sanskrit historiographic traditions that represent Vijayanagara as a successor state to the Delhi Sultanate. Since 2000, his work has increasingly focused on Persianate Islamic architecture in the Deccan, and his articles have dealt with topics ranging from the first appearance of Sultanate style architecture in the region in the early fourteenth century, to the founding and design of Hyderabad, laid out as a new capital by the Qutb Shahi sultans in the late 16th century. He is currently completing a book, co-authored with historian Richard M. Eaton, titled Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600.

Scholarly Keywords:
South Asian and Islamic art history, South Indian cultural history, buildings archaeology and urbanism, Telugu language and literature

BA Princeton University
MAR University of Pennsylvania
PHD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAA Wesleyan University

AMST407 - 01
Senior Tutorial

ARHA258 - 01
Contemporary Architecture

ARHA258 - AU01
Contemporary Architecture

ARHA409 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial

UNIV407 - 01
Senior Tutorial

ARHA254 - 01
Architecture of 20th Century

ARHA404 - 01
Dept/Program Project or Essay

ARHA410 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. or by appointment, Office 302 in the new Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Joseph Siry is professor of modern architectural history. His books are Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store (Chicago, 1988); Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, 1996); The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago, 2002), which won the 2003 Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for best book by a North American scholar; and Beth Sholom: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture (Chicago, 2012). He also published book chapters, and articles in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Art Bulletin, the first of which won College Art Association's 1991 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for the outstanding article by a younger scholar. He was given Wesleyan's Binswanger Award for Teaching Excellence in 1994. His work has been funded by the N.E.H., the Getty Research Institute, the Mellon Foundation, and the Graham Foundation.

Scholarly Keywords:
Modern and American architectural and urban history

Kenan Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus and Professor of Art History, Emeritus

jpaoletti@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University

Office Hours:
Emeritus jpaoletti@wesleyan.edu

Research Interests:
John Paoletti taught the history of Italian Renaissance art and of the art of the twentieth century from 1972 to 2009. He was a William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities from 2005 until his retirement. He received the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wesleyan in 1997 and the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association in 2003. He was a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton in the spring of 2001 and Visiting Professor at the Villa I Tatti, Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, in the late fall of 2008. He is currently serving as a member of the Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York. From 1996-2000 he was the editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin, the journal of record in art history in the United States. He served as guest curator for exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Yale Center for British Art, as well as at Wesleyan. In a number of these exhibitions, students served with him as co-curators and co-authors of the catalogue material He is the co-author with Gary Radke of Art in Renaissance Italy, now in its fourth edition. With Roger Crum he is the co-editor of and contributing author to Renaissance Florence: a Social History, (New York, 2006). He has contributed catalogue essays for exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the National Gallery of Art and the Nurnberg Kunsthalle. He is currently at work on a monograph on Michelangelo's David, a study of Medici patronage during the fifteenth century, and a monograph on Georg Baselitz.

Scholarly Keywords:
Art of the Italian RenaissanceArt in Europe and the United States after 1945

Academic Associations:
College Art Association(former Editor-in-Chief of The ArtBulletin, published by the CAA)

BA Yale University
MT Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

CCIV201 - 01
Bronze Age Mediterranean

CCIV409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial

GRK101 - 01
Introduction to Ancient Greek

CCIV153 - 01
Single Combat in Ancient World

CCIV410 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial

GRK102 - 01
Introduction to Ancient Greek

Personal Web Site:
http://wesleyan.academia.edu/KathleenBirney

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesdays 1-3 PM (and by appointment)

Research Interests:
I study interaction and cultural exchange between the Aegean and the Near East, both mythological and material. The bulk of my research has been devoted to the transitional Bronze-Iron Age periods, tracking Mycenaean immigrants and tribes of Sea Peoples as they move from the Aegean sphere into Anatolia, Syria, Israel and Egypt. The story of their mass migration is echoed in the works of Homer and finds its way into several Greek foundation legends - particularly that of Mopsus - and also the Old Testament. At the core of this research are a series of analyses of locally-produced Mycenaean pottery, domestic coarsewares, architecture and burial customs. Secondary research interests include infant burial and infant sacrifice in the Greek and Phoenician traditions, and in particular Philistine subfloor burials of infants in southern Israel, and their relationship to Mycenaean and Egyptian treatment of infants and children. I have also worked on material from the 'Tophet', the Phoenician infant sacrifice cemetery at Carthage.

Scholarly Keywords:
Archaeology and History of the Ancient Aegean, Near East and Egypt

Academic Associations:
<p>American Institute of Archaeology<br />American Schools of Oriental Research<br />Society for Biblical Literature<br />American Anthropological Association<br />Society for Humanitarian Archaeological Research and Exploration<br />American School of Classical Studies at Athens</p>

Lab URL:
http://ashkelon.site.wesleyan.edu/

Publications:
http://wesleyan.academia.edu/KathleenBirney

My research and teaching interests also overlap significantly with those of the department of Art History and the Middle Eastern Studies Certificate.

Society for Humanitarian Archaeological Research and Exploration

BA Grinnell College
MA University of Iowa
PHD Duke University

CCIV223 - 01
Survey of Roman Archaeology

LAT201 - 01
Latin Prose: Roman Letters

CCIV328 - 01
Roman Urban Life

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesdays 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, and by appointment

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