Regular Faculty
Mary Beth Heffernan, Chair
Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995
Mary Beth Heffernan is professor of sculpture, photography and interdisciplinary art.
Janna Ireland
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, New York University; MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
Janna Ireland's concentration is in the medium of photography.
Samuel Luterbacher
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Université de Genève; M.A., The Courtauld Institute of Art; Ph.D., Yale University
Samuel Frédéric Luterbacher specializes in Early Modern (1500-1800) art, craft, and material culture in a global context and teaches courses on premodern art histories of the wider Mediterranean world.
Amy Lyford
Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley
Amy Lyford’s research centers on twentieth-century American and European artistic practices, with a special interest in the histories of photography and sculpture.
Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design; MFA, University of Southern California
Summer Sloane-Britt
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Yurika Wakamatsu
Associate Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Yurika Wakamatsu teaches East Asian art history, including pictorial narratives, woodblock prints, comics and anime, and gender and visual culture. Read her °µÍø½ûÇø Story profile.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Roksana Pirouzmand
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Camilla Taylor
Resident Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach
Tiffany Barber
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.F.A. Fordham University/The Ailey School; M.P.A.S. University of California Roski School of Fine Arts; Ph.D. University of Rochester
Stephen van Dyck
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., °µÍø½ûÇø; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
David Weldzius
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A, University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Patricia Yossen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani; M.F.A., Pratt Institute