DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY

  • Benjamin Bellas

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.A., University of Pittsburgh – 1998

    M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago – 2005

    Recipient:

    Franklin Furnace Fund Award

    School of the Art Institute Faculty Enhancement Grant

    Illinois Art Council International Artist Grant

    Awarded residencies at:

    Redux Contemporary Art Center

    1a space

    Contemporary Artists Center

  • Heather Harvey

    Assistant Professor of Art

    B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo – 1993

    M.A., The College of William and Mary – 1997

    B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University – 2003

    M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University - 2007

    Awards:

    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Artist Fellowship 2009-2010

    Fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 2003

  • Fatma Talaat Ismail

    Lecturer in Art

    B.A., Helwan University – 1997

    M.A., The Johns Hopkins University – 2002

    Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University - 2009

  • Alex Castro

    Lecturer in Art Architect

    Exhibition and Book Designer in Residence

    B.A., Yale University – 1965

    M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania – 1969

    His firm, Castro/Arts, focuses on architectural, exhibition, and book design

    Creative Director of Urbanite Magazine in Baltimore

  • Donald McColl

    Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History

    B.A., University of Western Ontario – 1986

    M.A., Oberlin College – 1992

    Ph.D., University of Virginia – 1996

    Postdoctoral study at Northwestern University

    Research Interests

    Netherlandish, German, and Swiss art of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries

    Art and the Reformations of the sixteenth century

    Iconoclasm

    Early Christian/Late Antique art and archaeology

    Museology

  • Aileen Tsui

    Associate Professor of Art

    Chair, Department of Art & Art History

    B.A., Yale University – 1988

    M.A., Harvard University – 1992

    Ph.D., Harvard University – 2001

    Research Interests:

    British, French, and American art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

    Modernist painting and modernity

    Exoticism in/and visual culture

    Feminist theories and histories of the visual arts

    Relationships between image and text

  • Kelly Parisi Castro

    Lecturer in Art

    B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art – 1981

    M.F.A., Spalding University – 2003

  • Denise Mensinger-Campbell

    Lecturer in Art

    B.A., College of Notre Dame of Maryland – 1994

    M.F.A., University of Delaware - 2002

  • Scott Woolever

    Lecturer in Art

    B.A., Washington College – 1977

    M.F.A., University of Delaware – 1983

    With further study at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art