Susan Weber Soros, Director and Founder, Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts
A.B., magna cum laude, Barnard College; M.A., Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design; Ph.D., Royal College of Art, London. Founder and publisher, Source: Notes in the History of Art; lecturer on 18th- and 19th-century decorative arts topics for Royal Oak Foundation and Irish Georgian Society; director, Philip Colleck of London, specialists in English antiques; assistant director, “New York: The State of Art,” New York State Museum; associate producer of documentary films In Search of Rothko and The Big Picture; executive director, Open Society Fund. Publications include “H. W. Batley: Artist and Designer,” Studies in the Decorative Arts (spring 1999); The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin (1999); E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (1999); “Edward William Godwin,” New Dictionary of National Biography (2000); Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827–1881 (coauthor, 2003); The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (coauthor, 2004); “Building an International Reputation: The Georg Jensen Phenomenon in the United States, 1915–1973,” Georg Jensen Jewelry (2005); James "Athenian" Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (editor and contributing author, 2006). Awards include Mecenate, Premio Università degli Orafi di Roma (2005); Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society in America (2004, 2000); Philip C. Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians (2004, 2000); AFA Cultural Leadership Award (2003); Educator in the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2001); House Beautiful Giants of Design Award (2001); George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award (2000); Spirit of the City Award, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (1999); Woman of Achievement Award, Barnard College (1997); National Arts Club Gold Medal Award (1997).
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Peter N. Miller, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs
B.A., Harvard College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Assistant professor, University of Maryland; Mellon instructor, University of Chicago; research fellow, University of Cambridge. Fellowships include John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Publications include Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences; Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century; Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Political Writings: Joseph Priestly; The Song of the Soul; Understanding “Poppea” (coauthor); “Nazis And Neo-Stoics: Otto Brunner and Gerhard Oestreich Before and After the Second World War,” Past & Present (2002); and numerous other articles and reviews. Coorganizer, with François Louis, of “The Age of Antiquaries in Europe and China,” a conference at the Bard Graduate Center, March 2004.
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Kenneth Ames, Professor
Professor. B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Chief, History Survey, New York State Museum, Albany; professor, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture; assistant professor, Franklin & Marshall College. Fellowships: National Endowment for the Humanities; American Philosophical Society. Publications include Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition; Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture; Victorian Furniture (editor); Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America, 1650–1920: An Annotated Bibliography (coeditor); Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits (coeditor); and numerous articles and reviews. Consultant to historical sites and cultural institutions
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Stefano Carboni, Professor
B.A., University of Venice; M.A., Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Curator and administrator of the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Metropolitan Museum, responsible for a large number of exhibitions, including Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797. Publications include authoring and editing several exhibition catalogues, among which are Glass of the Sultans; and Barr Award recipient The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Arts and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. Other catalogues were devoted to the subjects of Persian tiles, 14th-century Persian painting, the iconography of the signs of the Zodiac, and a catalogue of the Islamic glass collection in the National Museum of Kuwait (Glass from Islamic Lands. The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum, 2001). Among many articles and essays, mostly devoted to Islamic glass and illustrated manuscripts, one is the study on the minbar (pulpit) of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco, which was restored by the Metropolitan Museum in 1997-98.
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Jeffrey L. Collins, Professor
B.A., Yale College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University; B.A., honors, M.A., University of Cambridge. Chair and associate professor of art history, University of Washington. Fellowships include Yale University; Andrew W. Mellon; John Marshall Phillips; Fulbright grant; Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome; Gladys Krieble Delmas Grant for Independent Research in the Veneto; Royalty Research Fund Award; American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship. Publications include Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts; “What’s Love Got to Do With It? Passion, Creativity, and the Cinematic Construction of Baroque Art,” Amor y Desamor en las Artes: XXIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte; “Obelisks as Artifacts in Early Modern Rome: Collecting the Ultimate Antiques,” Ricerche di Storia dell’ Arte 72; “The Gods’ Abode: Pius VI and the Invention of the Vatican Museum,” The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond; “Obelisk Designs by Giovanni Stern,” The Burlington Magazine; “Non Tenuis Gloria: The Quirinal Obelisk from Theory to Practice,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome; “In Vino Vanitas? Death and the Cellarette in Empire New York,” American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture.
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David Jaffee, Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Department of Social and Cultural History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; lecturer, Princeton University; Fulbright Lecturer, University of Tokyo; professor of history, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Fellowships include Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum, Huntington Library, American Antiquarian Society, Smithsonian Museum, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University. Publications include People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 (1999); Visual Editor, Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (2007). Articles on artists and artisans in early America in The Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Rural New England Furniture, Explorations of the Folk Art World. Project director of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants at The City University of New York to develop multimedia resources for the teaching of U.S. History. (Visiting Academic Year 2007-2008)
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Pat Kirkham, Professor
B.A., First Class Honors, University of Leeds; Ph.D., University of London. Professor of Design History, De Montfort University; Provost, School of Arts, De Montfort University; course director, M.A. European Arts and Humanities, De Montfort University; editorial adviser, Studies in the Decorative Arts, Visual Culture in Britain, and Art History. Project director, Bard Graduate Center Millennium Exhibition, Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference. Fellowships include South Square, Royal College of Art; Leverhulme; Wolfsonian/FIU; Getty Research Institute; Yale Center for British Art. Publications include William and John Linnell: Eighteenth-Century London Furniture Makers (coauthor); Harry Peach Dryad and the DIA; Furnishing the World (coauthor); The London Furniture Trade; A View from the Interior: Women and Design (coeditor and contributing author); You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men (coeditor); Me Jane: Masculinity, Movies and Women (coeditor and contributing author); Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century; War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experiences in World War Two Britain (coeditor and contributing author); The Gendered Object (editor and contributing author); “Women and Design,” a special issue of Studies in the Decorative Arts (coeditor); Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference (editor and contributing author) (Wittenborn Award and Kauffman Award); Saul Bass: A Life in Design and Film; numerous articles and reviews.
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Deborah L. Krohn, Associate Professor and coordinator for History and Theory of Museums
A.B., M.F.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Visiting assistant professor, University of Maryland at College Park. Fellowships: American Association of University Women; American Association of Learned Societies; Peter Krueger–Christie’s Fellowship, Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harvard Whiting: Fulbright-Hays. Publications include “Between Legend, History and Politics: The Santa Fina Chapel in San Gimignano,” Italian Renaissance Cities: Cultural Translation and Artistic Exchange; “Taking Stock: Evaluation of Works of Art in Renaissance Italy,” The Art Market in Italy (15th–17th Centuries); “San Gimignano Gets the Finger: A Reliquary from Commission to appraisal,” Coming About: A Festschrift for John Shearman; “The Gavet-Vanderbilt-Belmont Collection,” John Ringling: Dreamer, Builder, Collector; “Onofrio di Pietro and the Opera della Pieve in San Gimignano,” Opera: Carattere e ruolo delle fabbriche cittadine fino all’inizio dell’Eta Moderna; “The Framing of Two Tondi by Filippino Lippi in San Gimignano,” The Burlington Magazine; and other articles and reviews.
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François Louis, Associate Professor
M.A., Ph.D., University of Zurich. Editor in chief, Artibus Asiae. Lecturer, University of Zurich; assistant curator, Museum Rietberg Zurich. Books include Die Goldschmiede der Tangund Song-Zeit; An Index of Gold and Silver Artifacts Unearthed in the People’s Republic of China (coauthor); Chinesisches Gold und Silber (editor and contributing author). Articles include “The Hejiacun Rhyton and the Chinese Wine Horn: Intoxicating Rarities and their Antiquarian Legacy,” Artibus Asiae; “Written Ornament— Ornamental Writing: Birdscript of the Early Han Dynasty and the Art of Enchanting,” Ars Orientalis; “The Genesis of an Icon: The Taiji Diagram’s Early History,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; “Shaping Symbols of Privilege: Precious Metals and the Early Liao Aristocracy,” Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies.
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Michele Majer, Assistant Professor
A.B., Barnard College; M.A., New York University/The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Costume historian and consultant; assistant curator, curatorial assistant, research assistant, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; associate, Cora Ginsburg LLC; curator, Dossier 1708; The Mantua: A New Acquisition in Context, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publications include “American Women and French Fashion,” The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815; “La Quatrième Unité: Costume and Fashion in Genre Historique Painting,” Romance and Chivalry: History and Literature Reflected in Early Nineteenth-Century French Painting; The Wright’s Ferry Mansion: The Collection (contributing author); Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (contributing author), Cora Ginsburg catalogue (contributing author).
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Andrew Morrall, Professor
B.A., honors, St. John’s College, Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, London University. Recipient, Oxford University Travel and Research Award; British Academy Scholarship; London University Research grants, Samuel H. Kress Award. Lecturer (Northern Renaissance Art), Birbeck College, London University; lecturer in fine and decorative arts, Christie’s Education, London. Publications include Jörg Breu the Elder. Art, Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg, (Ashgate, 2002); “The Reformation of the Virtues in Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art and Decoration,” in Art Reformed? Reassessing the Impact of the Reformation on the Visual Arts; “Craftsmen and the Courts. Some Strategies of Production and Sale of Works of Art and Science in late 16th-Century Augsburg,” Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1500–1750; “Protestant Pots: Morality and Social Ritual in the Early Modern Home,” Design History Journal; “Garlic and the Jews,” Constructing Publics: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German Lands; “Soldiers and Gypsies. Outsiders and their Families in Sixteenth-Century German Art,” Art and Warfare in the Early Modern Period; “Defining the Beautiful in Early Renaissance Germany,” Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art; “The ‘Deutsch’ and the ‘Welsch’: The Uses of Classicism in Sixteenth-Century Germany,” Drawing 1400–1600. Invention and Innovation; “Die Zeichnungen für den Monatszyklus von Jörg Breu dem Älteren. Maler und Glashandwerker im Augsburg des 16. Jahrhunderts,” ‘Kurzweil Viel Ohn’ Mass und Ziel.’ Augsburger Patrizier und ihre Feste zu Beginn der Neuzeit; and other articles and reviews.
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Amy Ogata, Associate Professor
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Fellowships include Smithsonian Institution, American Association of University Women, Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mellon Foundation, Belgian-American Educational Foundation. Publications include Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living; “Creative Playthings: Educational Toys and Postwar American Culture,” Winterthur Portfolio; “Belgium and France: Arts, Crafts and Decorative Arts,” The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World; “Viewing Souvenirs: Peepshows and the International Expositions,” Journal of Design History; “Henry Van de Velde’s Bloemenwerf: English Books and Belgian Art Nouveau,” The Built Surface: Architecture and Pictures from Antiquity to the Millennium; “Artisans and Art Nouveau: Primitivism and Nostalgia,” Policing the Boundaries of Modernity/Antimodernism and Artistic Experience; “The Decorative ‘Arts & Crafts’ at Les XX and La Libre Esthétique,” Belgium: The Golden Decades; “Gustave Serrurier-Bovy,” Encyclopedia of Interior Design; and other articles and reviews.
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Elizabeth Simpson, Professor
B.A., M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Director, Gordion Furniture Project; research associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum; guest lecturer, Furniture Conservation Training Program, Smithsonian Institution; visiting professor, Duke University; guest faculty, Sarah Lawrence College; assistant curator, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; traveling lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America. Grants include National Geographic Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Getty Grant Program, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Archaeological Institute of America, American Research Institute in Turkey, British Academy. Publications include Gordion Wooden Furniture(coauthor); “Reconstructing an Ancient Table,” Expedition; “Royal Wooden Furniture from Gordion,” Archaeology; “The Phrygian Artistic Intellect,” Source; “Midas’ Bed and a Royal Phrygian Funeral,” Journal of Field Archaeology; “Furniture in Ancient Western Asia,” Civilizations of the Ancient Near East; Gordion Wooden Objects; The Spoils of War (editor).
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Catherine Whalen, Assistant Professor
B.S., Cornell University; M.A., Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware; Ph.D., Yale University. Fellowships include Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Yale College Prize Teaching Fellowship, and Henry S. McNeil Fellowship in American Decorative Arts. Dissertation on “The Alchemy of Collecting: Material Narratives of Early America, 1890–1940.” Publications include “Finding Me,” Afterimage; “American Decorative Arts Studies at Yale and Winterthur: The Politics of Gender, Gentility, and Academia,” Studies in the Decorative Arts; “The Pickman Family Vues d’Optique,” Winterthur Portfolio; “Philadelphia Cabinetmaker Isaac Jones and the Vansyckel Bedchamber Suite,” Nineteenth Century; “Nature Transformed: American Arts & Crafts and California Plein Air Paintings of the Early 1900s,” Revisiting Landscape; and other essays and reviews.
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Jennifer Kingsley
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Thesis: “The Bernward Gospels: Structuring Memoria in Eleventh-Century Germany.” Specialist in early medieval art of the West and Byzantium. Research and teaching interests include manuscripts, collecting, memory, image theory, East-West contact, and touch. Adjunct professor, City College of New York; art history adviser, Roman de la Rose digital manuscripts project; lecturer, The Cloisters. Fellowships include dissertation grant from the Medieval Academy of America; annual grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst; Hall Fellowship at Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; travel fellowships from Johns Hopkins University. Article in progress: “Collecting Memory: Liturgy, the Treasury and the Power of Objects in the Early Middle Ages.”

John M. Lundquist
B.A., Portland State University; M.L.S., Brigham Young University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. From 1973 to 1984 participated in archaeological excavations in Syria and Jordan, and from 1982 to 1984 directed the American School of Oriental Research Orontes Valley Survey and the Tell Qarqur Excavation, in Syria. Previously instructor and then assistant professor in anthropology and religious instruction at Brigham Young University; since 1985, Susan and Douglas Dillon Chief Librarian of the Asian and Middle Eastern Division in The New York Public Library. Author of The Temple: Meeting Place of Heaven and Earth (Thames and Hudson, 1993—Japanese translation Heibonsha, 1994), and numerous articles on the ritual, symbolism, and architecture of temples. Currently completing The Temple of Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future. Photographs of Tibet and China have been published in the New York Times, as cover art, and in various books, and exhibited in numerous venues. Has taught at New York University, Columbia University, New School University, School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Program in European Decorative Arts.

Caroline Maniaque
Maîtrise d’Arts Plastiques; Diplôme d’Études Approfondies en Histoire de l’Art, Paris Sorbonne; Architecte D.P.L.G.; Ph.D. Paris VIII University. Senior lecturer, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille. Recipient of Fulbright, Rockefeller, Graham Foundation, and Canadian Center for Architecture fellowships. Publications include Le Corbusier et les Maisons Jaoul (Picard, 2005); ‘In Search of Lightness,’ Air-Air (Monaco, 2001); ‘Hard et Soft America: Persepectives françaises,’ Les Cahiers de Recherche Architecturale et Urbaine (Paris, 2002); ‘Néons et cathodes,’ Lumières (Ousia 2002); Searching for Energy,’ Art Farm 1968–78, (University of California Press, 2004); “Harvard Graduate School of Design, une chambre d’écho pour les CIAM,” La Modernité Critique (Imbernon, 2006); Les Architectes français et la contre-culture nord-américaine (InFolio, forthcoming); ‘American Travels of European Architects: 1960–1975,’ Space, Travel and Architecture (Ashgate, forthcoming)

Terry Milhaupt
B.A., University of Hawaii; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Washington University. Independent scholar specializing in Japanese textile and clothing history. Jane and Morgan Whitney Research Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2002, 1991). Lectures widely at museums and universities in Japan and the United States on the arts and designs of Japan. Guest curator, Contemporary Netsuke: Masterful Miniatures, Museum of Arts & Design, 2007. Publications include “Facets of the Kimono: Reflections of Japan’s Modernity,” Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection (Museum of East Asian Art, National Museum of Berlin, 2006); “Second-Hand Silk Kimono Migrating Across Borders,” Old Clothes, New Looks: Second-Hand Fashion (Berg Publishers, 2005); “Tsujigahana Textiles and their Fabrication,” in Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003); “The Four-Hundred-Year Life of a Tsujigahana Textile: Secular Garment to Museum Artifact,” “Moving Objects: Time, Space, and Context”—International Symposium on the Preservation of Cultural Property (National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Tokyo, 2004); “Draped in Silks: Whose Sleeves Adorn these Japanese Folding Screens?” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (forthcoming); and articles in Orientations.

Sarah B. Sherrill
Journal Editor. B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College; postgraduate study, Columbia University; Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum; Attingham Summer School. Recipient, Joseph V. McMullan Award (2000) for scholarship on Oriental carpets. Publications: Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America (1996); articles and reviews in Studies in the Decorative Arts, Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, Hali, The Magazine Antiques, Encyclopedia Iranica; essays in exhibition catalogues: The Warp and Weft of Islam (1978) and Transitory Splendour: Furnishing Textiles in Western Europe from 1600 to 1900 (2001).