Faculty
Susan Weber
Director and Founder
Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts
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
Professor
History of Historical Research
Antiquarianism
The Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
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 18th and 19th-centuries
Material Culture and Social Class
Uses of the Past in the Present
Material Culture and Social Class
Uses of the Past in the Present
212.496.1094,
ames@bgc.bard.edu
Stefan Heidemann
Visiting Professor
Islamic Artistic and Material Culture
Islamic Numismatics
Islamic Numismatics
212.501.3063,
heidemann@bgc.bard.edu
David Jaffee
Professor
Material Culture of New York City
Early American Material Culture
Cultural Geography and Landscape
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
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
History and Theory of Museums
Culinary History
212.501.3046,
krohn@bgc.bard.edu
Francois Louis
Associate Professor
History of Chinese Design and Visual Culture
Material Culture of Medieval China
Material Culture of Medieval China
212.501.3088,
louis@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
The Reformation and the Arts
The History and Theory of Ornament
212.501.3042,
morrall@bgc.bard.edu
Amy F. Ogata
Associate Professor
19th and 20th-century Architectural and Design History
History and Material Culture of Childhood
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
Ancient Crafts and Technology
History of Western Art and Architecture
212.501.3081,
simpson@bgc.bard.edu
Paul Stirton
Associate Professor
19th and 20th century European Graphic Design, Architecure
212.501.3067,
stirton@bgc.bard.edu
Ittai Weinryb
Visiting Assistant Professor
Medieval European Artistic and Material Culture
Anthropology of Image Making
Geography of Art
Anthropology of Image Making
Geography of Art
212.501.3069,
weinryb@bgc.bard.edu
Catherine Whalen
Assistant Professor
American Material Culture Studies
Twentieth-century Design History
History and Theory of Collecting
Twentieth-century Design History
History and Theory of Collecting
212.501.3064,
whalen@bgc.bard.edu
Fellows and Visiting Scholars
Aaron Glass
BGC-AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology
Northwest Coast Indians
Museums and Anthropology
Museums and Anthropology
212.501.3068
Alison Isenberg
Visiting Scholar (Spring 2010)
Kirsi Saarikangas
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2009)
Matthew Wittmann
Curatorial Fellow
"The History of the Circus in America" (through Winter 2012)
212.501.3060,
wittmann@bgc.bard.edu
Glenn Adamson
Short-term Fellow (January 2010)
William H. Sherman
Short-term Fellow (April-May, 2010)
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