Susan Weber
Director and Founder
Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts

18th and 19th-century decorative arts topics

Peter N. Miller
Dean and Chair of Academic Programs
Professor

History of historical research
Antiquarianism
The medieval and early modern Mediterranean

212.501.3044, miller@bgc.bard.edu

Kenneth L. Ames
Professor

American decorative arts and material culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Material culture and social class
Uses of the past in the present

212.496.1094, ames@bgc.bard.edu

Jeffrey L. Collins
Professor

Seventeenth and eighteenth-century European art and culture

212.501.3082, collins@bgc.bard.edu

David Jaffee
Professor

Material Culture of New York City
Early American Material Culture
Cultural Geography and Landscape

212.501.3047, djaffee@bgc.bard.edu

Pat Kirkham
Professor

18th to 20th centuries
Design history and cultural studies
Interior design and furniture

212.501.3043, kirkham@bgc.bard.edu

Deborah L. Krohn
Associate Professor

Italian Renaissance decorative arts and material culture
History and theory of museums
Culinary history

212.501.3046, krohn@bgc.bard.edu

François Louis
Associate Professor

History of Chinese design and visual culture
Material culture of Medieval China

212.501.3088, louis@bgc.bard.edu

Michele Majer
Assistant Professor

European and American clothing and textiles, 15th-20th century

212.501.3041, majer@bgc.bard.edu

Andrew Morrall
Professor

Early Modern Northern European fine and applied arts
The Reformation and the arts
The history and theory of ornament

212.501.3042, morrall@bgc.bard.edu

Amy Ogata
Associate Professor

19th and 20th century architectural and design history
History and material culture of childhood

212.501.3087, ogata@bgc.bard.edu

Elizabeth Simpson
Professor

Greek, Roman, Ancient Near Eastern, and Egyptian art and archaeology
Ancient crafts and technology
History of Western art and architecture

212.501.3081, simpson@bgc.bard.edu

Catherine Whalen
Assistant Professor

American material culture studies
Twentieth-century design history
History and theory of collecting

212.501.3064, whalen@bgc.bard.edu

Kevin Murphy
Professor and Chair of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

American material culture

Amy Sande-Friedman
BGC Teaching Prize Fellow

Art and Technology

Sarah B. Sherrill
Visiting Faculty

Textile Studies

212.501.3058, sherrill@bgc.bard.edu

Marianna Shreve Simpson
Visiting Faculty

Islamic art, Arts of the Book

Paul Stirton
Visiting Faculty

19th and 20th century European Graphic Design, Architecure

Aaron Glass

Northwest Coast Indians
Museums and Anthropology