Martin A. Berger
The role of the visual arts in identity formation.
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China.
Visual cultures of Central Africa; issues of gender, colonialism, post-colonialism and iconoclasm.
Carolyn Dean
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America.
Visual cultures of the Mediterranean with emphasis on Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Islamic material. Cross-cultural interactions; continuity and change; politics and religion; gender construction and perception; word and image; ritual and the senses.
Contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art, digital art and activist art. The strategic use of space (exhibition space, public space, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. Representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender.
Donna Hunter
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice; portraiture.
Visual cultures of the Oceania; (inter)nationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; museums, collecting, and exhibition.
Visual cultures of Southeast Asia and its diaspora: religions and materiality, theory of visual narrative, the politics of cultural translation, (Post) colonial and Cultural Studies. Issues of gender, sexuality, race, and trauma.
Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism; visual and cultural studies; social inequality in space; architectural preservation; history and memory in the built environment; architecture and visual culture in Latin America and Europe.
Professor Soussloff teaches history of art, visual studies and theory in the HAVC department. Some of her courses fulfill requirements in Italian Studies and Jewish Studies. She also teaches graduate courses and advises in the Departments of History, History of Consciousness, and Literature and in the Digital Art & New Media M.F.A. program.
Emeriti
Harry Berger, Jr.
Visual and conceptual representation in premodern China, especially landscape/painting; Asian art history.
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture, campus planning and architecture.