Faculty

Areas of Study

Meet Our Faculty

Susan Jarosi, Chair, Associate Professor of Art History

B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; Ph.D., Duke University

Areas of expertise: art and visual culture since 1950; performance art; trauma studies; gender in visual studies; economic histories of the arts

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Nadya Bair, Assistant Professor of Art History

nbair@hamilton.edu

B.A., Barnard College; M.A., University of Southern California; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Areas of expertise: history of photography; modern and contemporary visual culture; media studies; digital humanities

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Ruth Lo, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

rlo@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Brown University

Areas of expertise: modern and contemporary architecture, history of urbanism, architecture and politics, environmental humanities, food studies

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Scott MacDonald, Director, Cinema and Media Studies; Professor of Art History

smacdona@hamilton.edu

B.A., DePauw University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Florida

Areas of expertise: film history; documentary, experimental and avant-garde film; cinema and place; institutional histories of organizations that have served independent film, and 20th century American literature

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Arathi Menon, Assistant Professor of Art History

amenon@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas of expertise: South Asian art; visual culture of Indian Ocean trade; churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples in Kerala; syncretism; religious iconography; artistic agency; digital art history

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Laura Tillery, Assistant Professor of Art History

ltillery@hamilton.edu

B.A., McGill University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Areas of expertise: Medieval and early modern art in Northern Europe; Scandinavian studies; economics and trade; religious iconography; history and methods of art history

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Rand Carter, Professor of Art History Emeritus (retired)

rcarter@hamilton.edu

A.B., Columbia University; M.F.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. Princeton University

Areas of expertise: historic preservation, European art of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, neoclassicism, history of furniture, environmental and ecological implications of architectural design, urban planning and landscape

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Steve Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus (retired)

sgoldber@hamilton.edu

B.A., Brooklyn College of the City University of New York; M.A., University of Hawai'i; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of expertise: Chinese art, Japanese art and aesthetics

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John McEnroe, John and Anne Fischer Professor in Fine Arts Emeritus (retired)

jmcenroe@hamilton.edu

B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Toronto

Areas of expertise: ancient art and archaeology, ancient Greece and Rome, modern Greece and Italian Renaissance art

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Deborah Pokinski, Associate Professor of Art History Emerita (retired)

dpokinsk@hamilton.edu

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College; M.A. and Ph.D., Cornell University

Areas of expertise: American art and architecture, especially of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; modern art; women in art

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Contact Information

Art History Department

198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

315-859-4258 315-859-4464 arthistory@hamilton.edu