Barbara Abou-El-Haj
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Associate Professor
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Karen Barzman
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Associate ProfessorOffice: Fine Arts 220B Specialization: Early modern visual and material culture; the institutions of art, art education, and criticism; art, religion, and the state in the early modern era; feminist theory, gender studies, and feminist histories of art. |
Kevin Hatch
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Assistant ProfessorOffice: Fine Arts 319 Specialization: Twentieth-century and contemporary art; American art and visual culture; new media practices; media theory. |
Tom McDonough
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Office: Fine Arts 305 Specialization: Postwar and contemporary art and architecture; spatial theory and the culture of cities; critical theory. |
Pamela Smart
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Art HistoryOffice: Science I - 233 Specialization: Anthropology of artworlds; museums studies; cultural formations of modernity and postmodernity; symbolic economies of exchange and political economies of collecting, patronage and philanthropy under globalization; cultures of expertise. |
John Tagg
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Professor of Art History and Comparative LiteratureOffice: Fine Arts 227 Specialization: Histories of photography; twentieth-century American cultural history; cultural theory and criticism; the history of art history. |
Nancy Um
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Director of Graduate Studies
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Julia Walker
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Assistant ProfessorOffice: Fine Arts 343A Specialization: Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism; architectural theory; social and political memory in postwar German visual culture. |
Andrew Walkling
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Dean's Assistant ProfessorOffice: Fine Arts 226 Specialization: Early Modern Britain: court culture, politics of cultural production, including art and architecture, literature, music, and theater |
Brian Wall
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Assistant Professor of Cinema and Art HistoryE-mail: bwall@binghamton.edu Specialization: film theory, film noir and the historical avant-garde |
Faculty Publications and Awards |
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Chris Focht
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Photographer
Specialization: Photographer for the Departments of Art History, Art, and Theater. Chris Focht holds a BFA and MA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. |
Marcia Focht
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Curator of Visual ResourcesE-mail: mfocht@binghamton.edu Marcia Focht has been the Curator of the Visual Resources Collection since 1986. She was awarded a BFA in Printmaking and an MA in Art History from the University of Denver. Marcia is currently Secretary of the Visual Resources Association, the International Association of Image Media Professionals. She has long served as the VRA's Mentor Coordinator, oversees the popular Ask the Expert VRA conference event, and is also part of the ARTstor Hosting Advisory group. Marcia's recent activity includes presenting "Leveraging ARTstor as a Campus-Wide Digital Image Library" at the Conference on Instructional Technology, SUNY Plattsburgh, 2007 and Co-Taught the CCO Workshop Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images and presented "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? The VRA at 25: Understanding our Past & Framing a Future." for the Silver Jubilee Session at the Visual Resources Association Annual conference, Kansas City, 2007. |
Sylvia Rabeler
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Assistant to the ChairE-mail: srabeler@binghamton.edu Sylvia Rabeler serves as the Assistant to the Chair in the Art History Department at Binghamton University. She is also an artist, and a student. Sylvia is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Science, in the T.J. Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University. Her doctoral work applies systems science to abstract art. |