Faculty: Art History

School of of Humanities:
Art History Faculty (Board of Study)

Tracy Schpero Fitzpatrick
Assistant Professor of Art History and
Curator, Neuberger Museum of Art
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Modern art; museum studies; feminist practice; women and art.
tracy.fitzpatrick@purchase.edu

Elizabeth Guffey
Professor of Art History
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. 19th- and 20th-century art, architecture, and design in Europe and America; Asian art.
elizabeth.guffey@purchase.edu

Paul Kaplan
Professor of Art History
B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. The Renaissance; Venetian art; representation of Africans in Western art.
paul.kaplan@purchase.edu

Jane Kromm
Professor of Art History
B.S., Wheelock College; M.Div., Harvard University; Ph.D., Emory University. 17th- and 18th-century art, architecture, and design; feminist issues; representations of madness.
jane.kromm@purchase.edu

Michael Lobel
Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Postwar and contemporary art; the relationship between modernism and mass culture; contemporary theory and criticism.
michael.lobel@purchase.edu

Sarah Warren
Assistant Professor of Art History

B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Early 20th-century European art; history of photography.
sarah.warren@purchase.edu

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Emeritus Faculty

Shirley Blum
Professor Emerita of Art History

A.A., Stockton College; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Eric Carlson
Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Medieval art and architecture; modern architecture.

Irving Sandler
Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts

School of Art+Design: Art History
B.A., Temple University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., New York University. National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim Fellowships. Author of Triumph of American Painting; The New York School: Painters and Sculptors of the 1950s; American Art of the 1960s; and Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s.

Updated Aug. 22, 2008

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