DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE:
Professor Mariët Westermann DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE, DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Professor Priscilla Soucek CHAIR OF THE CONSERVATION CENTER:
Professor Michele D. Marincola

The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) is dedicated to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archaeology and in the conservation of works of art. The Institute offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, the Advanced Certificate in Conservation of Works of Art in conjunction with the M.A. program, and the Certificate in Curatorial Studies issued jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the Ph.D. program. The courses of study prepare students to enter careers in university teaching, museum work, independent scholarship, art criticism, and art conservation.

The Institute strives to give its students, whatever their goals, a sound knowledge in the history of art and a foundation in scholarship and connoisseurship as a basis for independent critical judgment and research. To the student who goes beyond the master’s degree to the doctorate, the Institute provides a deeper understanding of a major area of the subject and develops a capacity for independent scholarship. Research is as important a part of the program as instruction.

Faculty

Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Fine Arts. D.Phil. 1964, M.A. 1963, B.A. 1960, Oxford.
Medieval European art, especially manuscript illumination.

Norbert S. Baer, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation. Ph.D. 1969, New York; M.S. 1962, Wisconsin; B.S. 1959, Brooklyn College(CUNY).
Application of physiochemical methods to the study andpreservation of cultural property; environmental policy and damage to materials.

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Professor. Ph.D. 1965, Harvard; M.A. 1958, Radcliffe College; B.A. 1956, Vassar College.
Italian Renaissance art and culture.

Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of FineArts. Ph.D. 1964, M.F.A. 1963, Princeton; B.A. 1960, Dartmouth College.
History of Spanish art, 1500-1800; colonial Latin Americanart; history of art collecting.

Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the Historyof Architecture. Ph.D. 1985, Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies 1982, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Architecte Diplôme 1973, Ecoled’Architecture No. 6.
Modern architecture and urbanism; urban history.

Thomas Eugene Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art. Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975, California (Los Angeles); B.A.1969, Pomona College.
Modern and contemporary art.

Colin Eisler, Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts. Ph.D.1957, M.A. 1955, Harvard; B.A. 1952, Yale.
Early Netherlandish painting; Renaissance drawings and prints.

Margaret Holben Ellis, Professor. Director, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library (part-time); Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra. M.A. and Dip.(conservation) 1979, New York; B.A. 1975, Barnard College.
Conservation of 20th-century works of art on paper.

Finbarr Barry Flood,Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1993, Edinburgh; B.A. 1988, Trinity College Dublin.
Islamic art and architecture.

Jonathan Hay, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts. Ph.D. 1989, Yale; B.A. 1978, London.
History of Chinese painting.

Günter Kopcke, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities. Ph.D. 1962, Ludwig-Maximilians.
Prehistoric to early classical Greece; circum-Mediterranean studies; Roman and early medieval civilization in Europenorth of the Alps.

Robert Lubar, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1988, M.A. 1981, New York; B.A. 1979, SUNY (Stony Brook).
Twentieth-century European art (Franceand Spain); art since 1945 in Europe and America;critical theory.

Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology. Ph.D.1997, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
Archaic and classical Greek art, architecture, andarchaeology.

Michele D. Marincola, Professor; Sherman Fairchild Chairman, Conservation Center; Conservator, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art (part-time); Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra. M.A. and Certificate (conservation) 1990, New York; B.A. 1981, Brown.
Conservation of polychrome wooden sculpture and stone sculpture.

Alexander T. Nagel, Professor. Ph.D. 1993, M.A. 1990,Harvard; B.A. 1987, California (Berkeley); D.E.U.G. 1985, Montpellier.
Renaissance art.

Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art. Ph.D. 1963, New York; M.A. 1952, Columbia; B.A. 1951, Vassar College.
Nineteenth-century European art and culture; women artists and feminist art history.

David O’Connor, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art; Codirector, Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-NYU Institute of Fine Arts Excavations at Abydos. Ph.D. 1969, Cambridge; Postgrad. Dip. 1962, London; B.A. 1958, Sydney.
Ancient Egyptian art and archaeology.

Hannelore Roemich, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1987, Heidelberg.
Materials science; deterioration and conservation of stainedglass, archaeological glass and ceramics; nondestructive analysis; environmental monitoring.

Roland R. R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, Oxford University; Codirector,Aphrodisias Excavations.
Roman sculpture.

Priscilla Soucek, John Langeloth Loeb Professor of the History of Art. Ph.D. 1971, New York; M.A.1963, Wisconsin; B.A. 1960, American (Beirut).
Islamic art and architecture. .

Edward J. Sullivan, Professor, Art History; Dean for Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science.
Modern Latin American art.

Thelma K. Thomas, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1990, M.A.1982, New York; B.A. 1980, Bryn Mawr College.
Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture.

Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts. Ph.D. 1967, M.A. 1963, New York; B.A. 1961, Yale.
Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance architecture.

Katherine Welch, Associate Professor; Deputy Director forSculpture Research, Aphrodisias Excavations. Ph.D. 1994, M.A. 1988, New York; B.A. 1984,Cornell.
Roman art.

Mariët Westermann, Professor; Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine Arts; Project Executive, Robert Lehman Collection Scholarly Catalogue. Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1989, New York; B.A. 1984, Williams College.
Early modern art of the Netherlands; critical theory.

FACULTY EMERITI

Evelyn B. Harrison, Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emerita of the History of Fine Arts.

Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Coordinating Scholar, Robert Lehman Collection Scholarly Catalogue.

Thomas F. Mathews, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus ofthe History of Art.

James R. McCredie, Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts; Director, Excavations in Samothrace.

INSTITUTE LECTURERS

Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Greek vase painting.

Keith Christiansen, Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Italian Renaissance and baroque painting.

Joan R. Mertens, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Greek vase painting.

Lucy Freeman Sandler, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor Emerita of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Science.
Medieval manuscripts.

Robert Storr, Dean, School of the Arts, Yale University.
Post-World War II art and art criticism.

Bonna D. Wescoat, Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University.
Greek archaeology; Excavations in Samothrace.

INSTITUTE LECTURERS FOR THE CONSERVATION CENTER

Samantha Alderson, Associate Conservator, American Museum of Natural History.
Conservation of ethnographic and archaeological objects.

Drew Anderson, Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Centerfor Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of stained glass.

Lucy Commoner, Textile Conservator, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Conservation of textiles.

Joan Breton Connelly, Associate Professor, Art History;Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus).
Classical art and architecture.

Jean Dommermuth, Paintings Conservator, New York; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy.
Conservation of paintings.

Kathy Francis, Textile Conservator, New Jersey.
Conservation of textiles.

James H. Frantz, Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation science.

Leslie Ransick Gat, Objects Conservator, New York.
Conservation of objects.

Ellen Howe, Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Centerfor Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of ethnographic and archaeological objects.

Nora Kennedy, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of photographs.

Judith Levinson, Conservator, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History.
Conservation of ethnographic and archaeological objects.

Dorothy Mahon, Conservator, Sherman Fairchild PaintingsConservation Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of paintings.

Christopher W. McGlinchey, Conservation Scientist, Department of Paintings Conservation, Museum of Modern Art.
Conservation science.

Dianne Dwyer Modestini, Paintings Conservator, Kress Programin Painting Conservation, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts.
Conservation of paintings.

Linda Nieuwenhuizen, Objects Conservator, New York.
Conservation of ethnographic and archaeological objects.

Elena Phipps, Textile Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of textiles; technical studies art history and archaeometry.

Lisa Pilosi, Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of glass.

Deborah Schorsch, Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Centerfor Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of objects and technical studies in art history.

Suzanne Siano, Paintings Conservator, New York.
Conservation of modern and contemporary paintings.

Jack Soultanian, Jr., Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conservation Consultant,Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy.
Conservation of sculpture.

Richard E. Stone, Senior Museum Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Conservation of objects and technical studies in arthistory.

Glenn Wharton, Research Scholar, Program in Museum Studies and the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Conservation of objects and modern art.