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Art History Faculty

Bettina Bergmann, Chair
Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art
Phone: 413-538-5485
Office: 204 Art Building
Office hours: Monday Wednesday 2:00 -4:00 pm, and by appointment
Specialization: Ancient art; Greek and Roman art; the art of landscape
Anthony Lee
Professor of Art
Phone: 413-538-2243
Office: 209 Art Building
Office hours: Monday 10:00 -11:00 am, and by appointment
Specialization: Modern and contemporary European and American art; alternative histories of modernist art; history of photography; American visual culture
Michael T. Davis
Professor of Art; Art and Art History
Phone: 413-538-2474
Office: 206 Art Building
Office hours: Monday Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00pm, and by appointment
Specialization: French Gothic architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; the history of modern architecture; the arts of Islam
Jessica Maier
Assistant Professor of Art History
Phone: 413-538-2475
Office: 205 Art Building
Office hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 pm, and by appointment
Specialization:Renaissance and Baroque Art; Visual culture of early modern Italy, including cartography and print culture as well as art and architecture
Nancy Noble
Visiting Instructor in Art History
İpek Kaynar Rohloff
Five College Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor in Art & Art History
Phone: 413-538-3562
Office: 25 Morgan Street #3
Office hours: Wednesday 11:00 - 1:00 pm, and by appointment
Specialization: Space syntax in architecture; narratives and cultural practices in museums; architecture and technology in the twentieth century
Ajay J. Sinha (leave spring 2012)
Professor of Art
Phone: 413-538-2473
Office: 207 Art Building
Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm and by appointment
Specialization: Arts of Asia; Indian art and films
Paul Staiti (leave spring 2012)
Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation
Phone: 413-538-2244
Office: 208 Art Building
Office hours: Monday 3:00 - 5:00pm, and by appointment
Specialization: American art & film; cultural history
Robert Herbert
Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Phone: 413-534-8313
Office: 312 Skinner Hall
John Varriano
Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art Emeritus

Art Department Staff

Rose Ryan
Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 413-538-2200
Office: 201 Art Building
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm
Bridget Barrett
Secretary
Phone: 413-538-3097
Office: 201 Art Building
Office hours: M 12-5, W 8:30-12:30, F 12-2
Nick Baker
LITS Liaison to Art History, Studio Art, Film Studies, Architectural Studies, Classics and Italian
Phone: 413-538-3014
Office: Art 211 (am) and Library 426 (pm