Faculty

 

Art History Faculty

Heather Diack

Assoc. Professor
Global Contemporary Art; Global Photography

h.diack@miami.edu

(305) 284-2842
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Heather Diack is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami where she teaches modern and contemporary art, the history of photography, visual culture, and critical theory. Within these fields, Diack specializes in the history and theory of conceptual art, global contemporary art practices, and social conflict with an emphasis...
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Joel A. Hollander

Lecturer
Foundations in Art History; Modern Art

j.hollander@miami.edu

(305) 284-5438
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Dr. Joel Hollander, Ph.D. was trained in the Big Ten, having first earned his undergraduate degree in Art History at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he wrote an Honors Thesis on the contemporary British printmaker Anthony Davies’ linocut suite The Wasteland (1985-86); Master’s Degree in Art History at The...
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Erica Moiah James

Asst. Professor
African, Black & Caribbean Art

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Karen R Mathews

Associate Professor
Ancient, Medieval & Islamic Art

k.mathews1@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542
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Karen Rose Mathews is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami where she teaches classes on ancient art, medieval art, Spanish art, and Islamic art. Her research interests address the material culture of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean as well as the use of digital technologies in art historical pedagogy and...
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Christina Larson

Asst. Director, Programs
Lecturer in American Art

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(305) 284-1557
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Bonnie Smith Rigg

Lecturer
Foundations in Art History

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(305) 284-4246
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Nathan James Timpano

Associate Professor
Chair of Department of Art and Art History
18th & 19th-Century Art; Modern Art in Europe & the Americas

ntimpano@miami.edu

(305) 284-4668
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Nathan Timpano is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the history of modern art & visual culture in Europe and the Americas, with a specialty in German and Austrian modernism. He teaches courses on 19th- & 20th-century European art,...
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Alfredo Triff

Lecturer
History of Graphic Design

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(305) 284-2542
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Studio Faculty

Carlos Llerena Aguirre

Professor

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(305) 284-2542
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Carlos Llerena Aguirre Cllerena_aguirre@yahoo.com   Carlos Llerena Aguirre has published woodcuts in international journals, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, El Comercio, books, magazines, children’s books, and international newspapers. His woodcuts are in the Library of...
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Ivan Albreht

Assoc. Professor

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(305) 284-4429
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Ivan Albreht is Associate Professor of Studio Arts at the University of Miami where he teaches variety of courses in ceramics and coordinates ceramics program. Professor Albreht holds diploma (undergraduate degree) from Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia) where he also defended magisterial dissertation (graduate...
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Patricia Lorraine Cooke

Lecturer

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(336) 207-8930
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Devin Caserta

Building Facility Coordinator
Senior Preparator
Lecturer

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(305) 284-8551
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Xavier Cortada

Professor Prof. Practice

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(305) 284-5459
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Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American artist working across disciplines to engage communities. He serves as Professor of Practice at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History (with secondary appointments in the university’s Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and School of...
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Brian Curtis

Assoc. Professor

b.curtis@miami.edu

(305) 284-3542
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Lise R Drost

Professor

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(305) 284-9415
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Lise Drost grew up in Miami and attended Miami Dade Junior College and Florida International University before earning her MFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  She then did Artist Residencies in Pennsylvania, Oregon and Wyoming before deciding to return to Miami. She taught part time at Florida International...
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Jenna Efrein

Senior Lecturer
In Glass

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(305) 284-2542
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James Arthur Herring

Lecturer

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(305) 318-8639
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Jeff Larson

Senior Lecturer
Photography

j.larson1@miami.edu

(305) 284-4429
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Artist Website: jefflarson1.com
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Izia Lee Lindsay

Lecturer
Graphic Design

i.lindsay@umiami.edu

(786) 200-0915
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Justin Long

Lecturer

jxl2301@miami.edu

(786) 512-4130
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J Tomas Lopez

Professor
History of Photography
Advanced Digital Imaging

tomlopez@miami.edu

(305) 284-2781
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Tomas Lopez, is  a Professor of the Department of Art and Art History. Professor Lopez has degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Fordham University, a Master of Media Arts in Film and Video and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Modernist Theory from the University of South Florida. He has been awarded the Florida Individual...
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Billie G Lynn

Professor

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(305) 284-6975
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Lenny Salas Moreno

Senior Lecturer
Graphic Design

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(786) 301-1161
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David James Marsh

Lecturer

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(305) 284-6955
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Claudio Nolasco

Asst. Professor
Digital Photography

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(305) 284-2369
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Artist Website: www.claudionolasco.com/
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Gerardo Olhovich

Senior Lecturer
Studio Manager for Painting

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(305) 284-2542
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Carlos Enrique Prado

Senior Lecturer
Ceramics

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(305) 284-2542
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    Carlos Enrique Prado is currently lecturer at the University of Miami, where he teaches different ceramic courses and the study of the human figure in clay. As an artist, his works are primarily ceramic sculptures with a strong presence of the figure, however, his full body of work also includes sculpture, installations,...
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Victoria Ravelo

Part-Time Lecturer

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Barbara G. Scheer

Lecturer

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Amy Schissel

Assoc. Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

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Artist Website: www.amyschisselart.com
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Courtney Schmidt

PT Lecturer

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(305) 284-3764
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Nathaniel M Schwartz

Lecturer
Graphic Design Lecturer

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(786) 368-1160
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Mohammed Khalil Shanti

PT Lecturer

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(305) 284-2922
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Lani Marie Shapton

Senior Lecturer

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Lidija Slavkovic

Lecturer

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Jeannette Stargala

Lecturer

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(305) 338-0823
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Erin Thurlow

Lecturer

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(917) 656-5198
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Carol Todaro

Lecturer

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Kyle H Trowbridge

Senior Lecturer
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Head of Undergraduate Advising

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