Faculty

BA Trinity College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

Office Hours:
Fall 2012: Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., 41 Wyllys Avenue, Room 306

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

Chair, Archaeology Program
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

ARHA290 - 01
Epic and Indian Visual Culture

ARHA383 - 01
Monument, Site, and Memory

Office Hours:

Most days and times available by appointment, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Room 311

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
MAA Wesleyan University
MAR University of Pennsylvania
PHD Massachusetts Institute Techno

ARHA258 - 01
Contemporary Architecture

ARHA254 - 01
Architecture of 20th Century

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment, 41 Wyllys Avenue room 302

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
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Yale 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)

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Downey House 212
860-685-2067

Assistant Professor, Archaeology Program

kbirney@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MT Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

CCIV201 - 01
Bronze Age Mediterranean

GRK365 - 01
Hesiod's Theogony

CCIV283 - 01
Greek Vases as Art & Artifact

GRK101 - 01
Introduction to Ancient Greek

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

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Wednesdays 4-5 PM (and by appointment)

Scholarly Keywords:

Archaeology and History of the Ancient Aegean, Near East and Egypt, literary and historical interactions between Greece and the Near East

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

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

BA Grinnell College
MA University of Iowa
PHD Duke University

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Wednesdays 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, and by appointment