Faculty

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 18th and 19th-centuries
Material Culture and Social Class
Uses of the Past in the Present
212.496.1094,  ames@bgc.bard.edu

Jeffrey L. Collins

Professor
17th and 18th-century European Art and Culture
212.501.3082,  collins@bgc.bard.edu

Stefan Heidemann

Visiting Professor
Islamic Artistic and Material Culture
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
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

Francois 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
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 F. 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

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
212.501.3069,  weinryb@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

Fellows and Visiting Scholars

Aaron Glass

BGC-AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology
Northwest Coast Indians
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)

Jonathan Tavares

Doctoral Teaching Fellow

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