
Roland Betancourt
roland.betancourt@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History; Religious Studies; Visual Studies
Interests: Byzantine and Medieval Art, Critical and queer theory, Histories of race, gender, and sexuality

Matthew Canepa
matthew.canepa@uci.edu
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Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran and Director, Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies
Interests: Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian art and archaeology, Iranian visual cultures and Afro-Eurasian exchange, Critical approaches to space, place, landscape, urbanism, and memory

Bridget R. Cooks
bcookscu@uci.edu
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Chancellor's Fellow and Professor of African American Studies; Art History; Culture and Theory; Visual Studies
Interests: African American art, Museum studies, Feminist and post-colonial theory

Abigail Lapin Dardashti
alapinda@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Interests: Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism

Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung
seungyj2@uci.edu
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Ph.D. Brown University
Interests: Modern and contemporary Korean art and design, global design history, economic development and globalization, critical and media theory

Lyle Massey
lmassey@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of Art History; Visual Studies
Interests: Renaissance and early modern art history, art and science, environmental humanities, gender studies

Tyrus Miller
tyrus@uci.edu
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Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of English; Art History; Visual Studies
Interests: Modernist and avant-garde studies in literature and visual arts, Critical theory and aesthetics, Modern architecture and urbanism, East-Central European studies, Culture of socialism and post-socialism, Frankfurt School theory

James Nisbet
jnisbet@uci.edu
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Associate Professor and Chair of Art History; Visual Studies
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, theory, and historiography, Ecocriticism, Environmental history, History of modern science, History of photography

Alka Patel
alka.patel@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History; History; Religious Studies; Visual Studies
Interests: South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, eleventh-eighteenth centuries, Early modern Islamicate diasporas in Cuba, Modern historiographies

Bert Winther-Tamaki
dewinthe@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History; Visual Studies
Interests: Modern and contemporary Japanese art and visual culture, Asian American art, Ecocriticism

Roberta Wue
rwue@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of Art History; Visual Studies
Interests: Modern Chinese art, Photography, Print culture