History of Art and Visual Culture
2011-12 General Catalog
D-201 Porter College
(831) 459-4564
havc@ucsc.edu
http://havc.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Harry Berger Jr., Emeritus
Martin A. Berger
Gender, race, and representation in U.S. culture
Raoul Birnbaum
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China
Carolyn Dean
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America
John Hay, Emeritus
Virginia Jansen, Emerita
Jasper A. Rose, Emeritus
Catherine M. Soussloff, Emerita
Associate Professor
Elisabeth Cameron, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture (2008-2013),
Visual cultures of central Africa, issues of gender, post-colonialism, and iconoclasm
Jennifer A. Gonzlez
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
Donna M. 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; monuments, counter-monuments, and anti-monuments
Stacy L. Kamehiro
Visual cultures of Oceania; colonial cultures; visual culture ad identity; gender studies; museums and collecting; material culture
Assistant Professor
Maria Evangelatou
Medieval visual culture with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies
Boreth Ly
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
Derek Conrad Murray
Theory and criticism of contemporary art, cultural theory, identity and representation, art of the African diaspora, popular visual culture, contemporary photography, and the ethics of art history and visual studies
Daniela Sandler
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, with foci on Brazil and Germany
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Professor
John Dizikes, Emeritus (American Studies)
Shelly Errington (Anthropology)
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
Revised: 8/13/12