Faculty

Art History Faculty

Andrew Geniesse Elmore

Asst. Dean, Marketing, Enrollment & Engagement, RSMAS

age40@miami.edu

(305) 421-4353

Joel A. Hollander

Lecturer

j.hollander@miami.edu

(305) 284-5438

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...

Erica Moiah James

Asst. Professor

emj58@miami.edu

Karen R Mathews

Associate Professor

k.mathews1@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542

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...

Christina Larson

Asst. Director, Programs
Lecturer in American Art

cxl1125@miami.edu

(305) 284-1557

Bonnie Smith Rigg

Lecturer

b.rigg@miami.edu

(305) 284-4246

Nathan James Timpano

Associate Professor

ntimpano@miami.edu

(305) 284-4668

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,...

Alfredo Triff

Lecturer

a.triff@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542

Studio Faculty

Carlos Llerena Aguirre

Professor

cllerena_aguirre@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542

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...

Ivan Albreht

Professor

ialbreht@miami.edu

(305) 284-4429

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...

Patricia Lorraine Cooke

Lecturer

plc16@miami.edu

(336) 207-8930

Devin Caserta

Building Facility Coordinator

d.caserta@umiami.edu

(305) 284-8551

Xavier Cortada

Professor Prof. Practice

x.cortada@miami.edu

(305) 284-5459

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...

Brian Curtis

Assoc. Professor

b.curtis@miami.edu

(305) 284-3542

Lise R Drost

Professor

l.drost@miami.edu

(305) 284-9415

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...

Jenna Efrein

Senior Lecturer

jxe126@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542

James Arthur Herring

Lecturer

jxh1070@miami.edu

(305) 318-8639

Jeff Larson

Senior Lecturer

j.larson1@miami.edu

(305) 284-4429

Artist Website: jefflarson1.com

Justin Long

Lecturer

jxl2301@miami.edu

(786) 512-4130

Billie G Lynn

Professor

blynn@miami.edu

(305) 284-6975

Lenny Salas Moreno

Senior Lecturer

lsm104@miami.edu

(786) 301-1161

lennysalas.com

David James Marsh

Lecturer

d.marsh1@umiami.edu

(305) 284-6955

Claudio Nolasco

Asst. Professor

cxn477@miami.edu

(305) 284-2369

Artist Website: www.claudionolasco.com/

Gerardo Olhovich

Senior Lecturer

g.olhovichperez@umiami.edu

(305) 284-2542

Carlos Enrique Prado

Senior Lecturer

cep41@miami.edu

(305) 284-2542

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,...