Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies)
Critical and Curatorial Studies (CCST) is an emerging field of scholarship and training that looks directly at the roles and responsibilities of curators and critics as mediators between objects, institutions, experiences, individuals and groups.
Faculty Members in Art History (Critical Curatorial Studies)
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Adriasola Munoz, Ignacio Alberto | investigates responses by artists and intellectuals to the crisis of aesthetic and political representation triggered by the failed protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960, and in particular their reliance on depictions of the sexual and geographical margins in their articulation of an aesthetics of political disaffection. |
| Claxton, Dana | film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art |
| Georgopulos, Nicole | Art history and theory; French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism |
| Gu, Xiong | Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space., Installation, painting, drawing, photography, contemporary art theory |
| James, Gareth | histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities that mark and delimit artistic practice are registered most emphatically |
| Makris, Georgios | Arts of Byzantium; Material culture and archaeology of monasticism; Dissemination and usage of portable objects across the eastern Mediterranean; Medieval monastic culture |
| Mansoor, Jaleh | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art |
| Monteyne, Joseph | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Arts and Technologies; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture |
| Orell, Julia | History of Chinese Art; Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties; Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media; Art and the production of knowledge; Cultural and historical geography; History of cartography |
| Peck, Alexandra | Social and cultural anthropology; Other studies related to history and archaeology; Art history and theory; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums |
| Pina Baldoquin, Manuel | Images |
| Porto, Nuno | Self-representation of African identities in contemporary Afro-Cuban Art and in Kenyan photography, Modern and contemporary arts of Africa and the African Diasporas, Curatorship and social justice, Social museology, History of collections, Photography |
| Roy, Marina | Intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology |
| Salgirli, Saygin | architecture of fourteenth-century Bursa, the first Ottoman capital |
| Shelton, Anthony | Mexican and Andean visual culture, critical museology, development of folk art, aesthetics |
| Silver, Erin | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements |
| Smith, Tai | History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles |
| Starling, Dan | |
| Thauberger, Althea | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism |
| Usher, Camille | Contemporary art; Indigenous visual culture; curatorial practices; Museum studies; feminism and performance; public art and graffiti |