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Department of Art History, University of Oregon
 
Faculty Directory

THE NAMES of departmental faculty, their addresses and brief descriptions of their research are listed below in alphabetical order:

MARY-LYON DOLEZAL, Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 381.
Phone 541-346-2071.
E-mail: mdolezal@uoregon.edu

Prof. Dolezal received her Ph.D. in 1991 in medieval and Byzantine art from the University of Chicago. Her her research focuses on Byzantine manuscripts of the ninth through fourteenth centuries, considering text and image relationships as well as the function of books in society.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding her research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

JAMES G. HARPER, Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 213.
Phone 541-346-5027.
E-mail: harperj@uoregon.edu

Prof. Harper received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Although a specialist in Italian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he offers courses that range across Renaissance and Baroque Art in Northern and Southern Europe. His research treats the connections between art and power with particular focus on the use of monumental biographical imagery as a form of propaganda.

DEBORAH D. HURTT, Assistant Professor
Lawrence Hall 214
Phone: 541-346-0252
E-mail: dhurtt@uoregon.edu

Prof. Hurtt received her Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of Virginia in 2005. Her research examines twentieth-century architecture with respect to how diverse conceptions of the modern affect issues of cultural identity as well as understandings of postmodern and contemporary theory and practice. He current work explores how the topics of cultural geography, globalization, and consumer culture inform these concepts.

For a C.V. and more detailed information regarding her research and teaching, visit: (personal web page under construction)

JEFFREY M. HURWIT, Professor.
Lawrence Hall 237B.
Phone 541-346-3652.
E-mail: jhurwit@uoregon.edu

Prof. Hurwit received his Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from Yale University in 1975. His primary field of research is the art and culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods, with particular emphases on the relationships between Greek art and literature and the archaeology of Athens.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

ESTHER JACOBSON-TEPFER, Maude I. Kerns Professor of Asian Art.
Lawrence Hall 240.
Phone 541-346-3677.
E-mail: ejacobs@uoregon.edu.
Project Site: http://www.uoregon.edu/~altay

Prof. Jacobson-Tepfer received her Ph.D. in Chinese art history in 1970 from the University of Chicago. Her research and publications focus on the art and archaeology of the Scytho-Siberians (the early nomads of the Eurasian Steppe; first millennium B.C.E.) and of their predecessors in the Bronze Age and earlier.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding her research and teaching, visit: http://www.uoregon.edu/~arthist/jacobson/index.htm

CHARLES H. LACHMAN, Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 243.
Phone: 541-346-3601.
E-mail: clachman@uoregon.edu

Prof Lachman holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include the history of Chinese landscape painting, Chinese art theory, and Buddhist art (especially Chan/Zen painting). He also serves as the Curator of Asian Art at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~clachman/homepage/

KATE MONDLOCH, Assistant Professor
Lawrence Hall 215
Phone
E-mail: mondloch@uoregon.edu

Prof. Mondloch received her Ph.D. in contemporary art history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. Her research interests focus on late 20th- and early 21st- century art, theory and criticism, particularly the individuals, practices and technologies that cross medium and disciplinary boundaries between art and media. She teaches courses in art since 1945.

ANDREW MORROGH, Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 214.
Phone: 541-346-0712.
E-mail: amorrogh@uoregon.edu

Prof. Morrogh received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London in 1983. His teaching interests concern Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century Italy, with special reference to Michelangelo and Guarini, and to architectural design and theory.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

KATHLEEN D. NICHOLSON, Professor.
Lawrence Hall 253.
Phone: 541-346-2112.
Email: knichol@uoregon.edu

Prof. Nicholson received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Her research and teaching interests focus on late 18th- and 19th-century art, and range from J.M.W. Turner and British landscape paintings to 18th-century French allegorical portraits of women.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding her research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

LELAND M. ROTH, Marion D. Ross Distinguished Professor of Architectural History.
Lawrence Hall 381A.
Phone: 541-346-2130.
E-mail: leeroth@uoregon.edu

Prof. Roth earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1966 and his Ph.D.in architectural history from Yale University in 1973. His primary field of research is American Architecture and Urban Planning, especially from 1865 to 1940. More recently he has developed specialized interests in Oregon architecture and in Native American architecture.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

ANDREW SCHULZ Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 237A
Phone 541-346-2111
E-mail: aschulz@uoregon.edu

Professor Schulz received his Ph.D. in 1996 from Columbia University.  His research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish art, with particular interests in the Spanish Enlightenment and the art of Francisco Goya.  His teaching interests range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

SHERWIN SIMMONS, Professor.
Lawrence Hall 247.
Phone: 541-346-2080.
E-mail: ssimmons@uoregon.edu

Prof. Simmons received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century art and his current research focuses on the relation of art to the mass media in early 20th-century Germany.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: (personal web-page under construction)

RICHARD A. SUNDT, Associate Professor.
Lawrence Hall 477.
Phone 541-346-4698 (faculty office), or 541-346-1418 (department head's office).
E-mail: rsundt@uoregon.edu

Prof. Sundt obtained his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research lies in two main areas: Gothic architecture, with particular emphasis on the churches of the mendicant orders (both male and female branches) and problems relating to the allocation of space among diverse members of the faithful; and the art and architecture of Maori churhces in Aotearoa New Zealand.

For C.V. and more detailed information regarding his research and teaching, visit: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rsundt/

EMERITI

ELLEN JOHSTON LAING (Ph.D., 1967, University of Michigan)

A. DEAN MCKENZIE (Ph.D., 1965, New York University)

PARTICIPATING

MARY ANN BEECHER, Department of Architecture (M.A., University of Iowa)

ARTHUR W. HAWN, Department of Architecture (M.A., Washington State University)

KENNETH I. HELPHAND, Department of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A., Harvard University)

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