Faculty – Department of the History of Art

	Yong Cho Assistant Professor Art and architecture of East and Central Asia; Mongol Empire; Buddhist art and architecture; nomadic art and architecture; sacred art and ritual; cross-cultural contact in visual and material culture; art and empire; textile history; material culture theory. (951) 827-4634 yong.cho@ucr.edu
	Johannes Endres Professor 19th-century Art History; German and European Literature 1750-1900 in Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Visual Arts, Film, Music, Sciences); Cultural Studies; Critical Theory. (951) 827-1541 johannes.endres@ucr.edu
	Savannah Esquivel Assistant Professor Art and material culture of the ancient and colonial Americas, with a focus on architecture and mural painting in contexts of religious conversion in Mexico. Indigenous studies; Nahuatl language and culture; art and ecology; mendicant art and architecture. (951) 827-4634 savannah.esquivel@ucr.edu
	Jeanette Kohl Associate Professor Co-Director, Center for Ideas and Society (CIS) Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture; Object and Material Culture; Portraiture and the Human Face; Theories and Concepts of Representation; Early Modern Medicine and History of Knowledge; Medical Humanities (951) 827-5919 jkohl@ucr.edu
	Liz Kotz Associate Professor Modern and contemporary art history; experimental film, video and performance; psychoanalysis and critical theory, media theories and media technologies. (951) 827-5921 ewkotz@ucr.edu
	Susan Laxton Associate Professor, Chair History and theory of photography; European avant-garde art of the 20th century, particularly its engagements with chance and psychoanalysis; critical theory. (951) 827-4626 slaxton@ucr.edu
	Aleca Le Blanc Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Modern Latin American art and architecture with a focus on Brazil; global modernisms, architecture and urbanism, visual culture, abstraction, institutional histories, and collecting and display. (951) 827-4601 aleca.leblanc@ucr.edu
	Kristoffer Neville Professor Early modern painting, sculpture, and (especially) architecture. Cultural contacts and cultural transfer. Northern Europe, ca 1500-1800. (951) 827-5057 kneville@ucr.edu
	Fatima Quraishi Assistant Professor Islamic Art and Architecture, Indo-Islamic Architecture, Devotional Practices and Material Culture, Transregional and Transcultural Histories, Historiography of Islamic Architecture in South Asia. (951) 827-1401 Fatima.Quraishi@ucr.edu
	Jason Weems Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor American art and visual/material culture from the colonial era to the present, with research emphasis on the later nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries; history of photography; art and social movements; modern design; vision and technology; critical and interdisciplinary theory. (951) 827-5922 jweems@ucr.edu