Faculty
Susan Weber
Director and Founder, Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts
Jeffrey L. Collins
Professor
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
François Louis
Professor
Jennifer L. Mass
Professor
Caspar Meyer
Professor, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
Andrew Morrall
Professor
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
Annissa Malvoisin
Bard Graduate Center/Brooklyn Museum Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa
Kelly McClinton
Fields of the Future Fellow, Spring 2024
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
Zeev Weiss
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2024
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
