Full-Time Faculty

Charlette Caldwell

Charlette Caldwell

Information: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow; Material Culture, Black Studies, Vernacular Architecture, Historic Preservation; PhD, Columbia University; cc2593@arthist.rutgers.edu

Jenevieve DeLosSantos

Jenevieve DeLosSantos

Information: Associate Teaching Professor of Art History; Director of Special Pedagogic Projects; Ph.D., Rutgers University; jdelossantos@sas.rutgers.edu

Christina Knight

Christina Knight

Information: Assistant Professor; Contemporary African American Art; African American art, contemporary art, black American performance, queer performance and visual culture, and the arts and culture of the African Diaspora.; Ph.D. African American Studies, Harvard University, 2013; christina.knight@rutgers.edu

Ricardo Montez

Ricardo Montez

Information: Associate Professor; rm1812@english.rutgers.edu

Benjamin Paul

Benjamin Paul

Information: Associate Professor; Venetian Art, Decorum of Style, Art and Agency, Symptoms of Crisis, Contemporary Art, Nostalgia and Lost Futures; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004; bpaul@arthist.rutgers.edu

Trinidad Rico

Trinidad Rico

Information: Associate Professor and Director of CHAPS; Critical heritage studies, postcolonial studies, Southeast Asia, Arabia, South America; Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University, 2011; trinidad.rico@rutgers.edu

Tamara Sears

Tamara Sears

Information: Associate Professor; South Asian visual culture; Religious art and architecture; Medieval studies; Colonial historiography; Landscape studies; Environment; Transregional studies; Ph.D., History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2004; tamara.sears@rutgers.edu

Jane Ashton Sharp

Jane Ashton Sharp

Information: Professor; East-European avant-gardes; Modernisms in the former Soviet republics, especially the Baltics, Caucasus, Central Asia; Global conceptualism; Post-WWII Abstraction; Ph.D., Yale University, 1992; jasharp@rutgers.edu

Erik Thunø

Erik Thunø

Information: Professor; Medieval Art; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; thuno@rutgers.edu

Deniz Turker

Deniz Turker

Information: Graduate Program Director; Associate Professor; Islamic Art and Architecture, Ottoman and Turkish Art and Architecture, History of Landscapes, History of Photography, History of Islamic Art Collections, Gift Practices and Women's Patronage; Ph.D. History of Art and Architecture & Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 2016; deniz.turker@rutgers.edu

Laura Weigert

Laura Weigert

Information: Professor; Northern European art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Media Archeology, Art and Theater in the Fifteenth Century, Space and spatiality in Early Modern Europe, Twentieth-century art historiography in France, Representing love in sixteenth-century France, Medieval and Renaissance ekphrasis; Ph.D. Northwestern University; weigert@rutgers.edu

Carla Yanni

Carla Yanni

Information: Distinguished Professor, Director of Architectural Studies, Chair; Social History of Architecture from 1750 to the present, USA and Britain; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; cyanni@rutgers.edu

Andrés Mario Zervigón

Andrés Mario Zervigón

Information: Professor; History of Photography, Periodical Studies, Histories of Technology; Ph.D, Harvard University, 2000; zervigon@rutgers.edu