MA/PhD

Faculty

Susan Weber
Director and Founder, Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts
Christian Ayne Crouch
Dean of Graduate Studies


Ivan Gaskell
Professor

Aaron Glass
Professor, Associate Chair of Research Programs
Freyja Hartzell
Associate Professor, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”

Deborah L. Krohn
Associate Professor, Chair of Academic Programs, Coordinator for History and Theory of Museums

Meredith B. Linn
Assistant Professor, Director of Masters Studies


Caspar Meyer
Professor, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”


Helen Polson
Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing
Mei Mei Rado
Assistant Professor

Nina Stritzler-Levine
Professor of Curatorial Practice, Director of Focus Project Exhibitions

Drew Thompson
Associate Professor

Ittai Weinryb
Associate Professor, Director of Doctoral Studies, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
Catherine Whalen
Associate Professor

Visiting Faculty and Fellows

Giovanni Acerbis
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2024
Azra Dawood
Visiting Fellow, Fall 2023

Hannah Duggan
Cultural Heritage Science Fellow

Namita Gupta Wiggers
Paul J. Smith Fields of the Future Fellow, Fall 2023

Lynda Klich
Visiting Fellow, 2023–24
Lynda Nead
Fields of the Future Fellow, Spring 2024

Patricia Orpilla
Fields of the Future Fellow, Spring 2024

Helen Persson Swain
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2024

Nima Valibeig
Visiting Fellow, Summer & Fall 2023
Charlotte Vignon
Adjunct Professor, Fall 2023

Faculty Emeriti

Kenneth L. Ames
Professor Emeritus
Pat Kirkham
Professor Emerita

Michele Majer
Professor Emerita

Elizabeth Simpson
Professor Emerita

Paul Stirton
Professor Emeritus, Editor in Chief of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”

In Memoriam

David Jaffee
Professor, Head of New Media Research