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\"Dr.<\/td>Yong Cho<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/span>
\n
\nArt 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.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-4634
\n<\/i> yong.cho@ucr.edu<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Endres\"<\/td>Johannes Endres<\/strong><\/a>
\nProfessor<\/span>
\n
\n19th-century Art History; German and European Literature 1750-1900 in Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Visual Arts, Film, Music, Sciences); Cultural Studies; Critical Theory.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-1541
\n<\/i> johannes.endres@ucr.edu<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Savannah<\/td>Savannah Esquivel<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/span>
\n
\nArt 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. <\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-4634
\n<\/i> savannah.esquivel@ucr.edu<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Jeanette<\/td>Jeanette Kohl<\/strong><\/a>
\nProfessor<\/span>
\nCo-Director, Center for Ideas and Society (CIS)<\/span>
\n
\nItalian 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 <\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-5919
\n<\/i> jkohl@ucr.edu<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Dr.<\/td>Susan Laxton<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Chair<\/span>
\n
\nHistory and theory of photography; European avant-garde art of the 20th century, particularly its engagements with chance and psychoanalysis; critical theory.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-4626
\n<\/i> slaxton@ucr.edu<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>Aleca Le Blanc<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor<\/span>
\n
\nModern Latin American art and architecture with a focus on Brazil; global modernisms, architecture and urbanism, visual culture, abstraction, institutional histories, and collecting and display.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-4601
\n<\/i> aleca.leblanc@ucr.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Kristoffer<\/td>Kristoffer Neville<\/strong><\/a>
\nProfessor<\/span>
\n
\nEarly modern painting, sculpture, and (especially) architecture. Cultural contacts and cultural transfer. Northern Europe, ca 1500-1800.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-5057
\n<\/i> kneville@ucr.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Judith<\/td>Judith Rodenbeck<\/strong><\/a>
\n Cooperating Faculty
Professor, Media & Cultural Studies<\/span>
\n
\nModern and contemporary Euro-American art, cultural, and media history and theory, with emphases on systems thinking, intermedia, and counter-cultural expression.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-6434
\n<\/i> judithr@ucr.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"WeemsBig\"<\/td>Jason Weems<\/strong><\/a>
\n Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor<\/span>
\n
\nAmerican 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.<\/em>
\n
\n<\/i> (951) 827-5922
\n<\/i> jweems@ucr.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Emeriti Faculty<\/h3>\n

Malcolm Baker<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus<\/a>
\n<\/i> mcbaker@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emerita<\/a>
\n<\/i> francoise.forster@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Ginger Cheng-Chi Hsu<\/strong>, Associate Professor Emerita
\n<\/i> ginger.hsu@ucr.edu <\/a><\/p>\n

Conrad Rudolph<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus<\/a>
\n<\/i> conrad.rudolph@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Lecturers<\/h3>\n

Molly Bond<\/strong>, Lecturer
\n<\/i> molly.bond@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Madison Brookshire,<\/strong> Lecturer
\n<\/i> madison.brookshire@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Patricia Butz, <\/strong>Lecturer
\n<\/i> patricia.butz@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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