Faculty

ART HISTORY FACULTY
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	Jennifer Ball , Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, teaches Byzantine, Medieval, and Islamic art. Her most recent book is Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-century Painting (Palgrave 2005). She was a contributor to Byzantium: Faith and Power, is a frequent lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has published on liturgical textiles and Byzantine-Islamic visual culture.
	Jack Flam, Ph.D., New York University, Distinguished Professor of Art History, has written extensively on 19th and 20th century European and American art, including volumes on Matisse, Picasso, and Primitivism, as well as contemporary artists. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Scholars Fellowship, and the College Art Associations Charles Rufus Morey Award for distinguished scholarship. His recent books include Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship (2003); Manet: Un bar aux Folies - Bergère ou l'abysse du miroir (2005); and Matisse in Transition: Around Laurette (2006). He has published in Apollo, Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art in America and Art Journal among other journals. From 1984 to 1993 he was the art critic for The Wall Street Journal.
	Mona Hadler, Ph.D., Columbia, teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and theory. She has published widely on Abstract Expressionism and the art of the sixties, including a recent catalogue essay on Lee Bontecou for an exhibition which traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has co-edited an issue of the Art Journal on abstract expressionist sculpture, chaired College Art Association sessions on Mass Culture before Pop and Art in the Nuclear Age, and written frequently on the relationship between Jazz and modern art.
	Rachel Kousser, holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is a specialist in Greek and Roman art history. She has recently received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute, and the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and is completing a book entitled "Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture: The allure of the Classical"; she is also beginning a new project on iconoclasm in the ancient world. Her publications have focused on such topics as the Venus de Milo, Roman representations of war, and the visual rhetoric of imperialism.
	Michael Mallory, Ph.D., Columbia, is Chairperson of the Art Department and a specialist in early Italian renaissance art. He has published a book on the painter Paolo di Giovanni Fei. His internationally published articles arguing a change in the attribution of a famous mural in Italy have caused ongoing debate in the art-history world.
STUDIO ART FACULTY
	Vito Acconci, MFA University of Iowa, is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist.
	Janet Carlile, MFA Pratt, and member of the Printmaking Workshop is an artist whose subjects are the landscapes of the American West. Carlile is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Grant, and two Colorado Council of the Arts Grants. She is represented in various museums and collections including the Brooklyn Musesum, the Hirschorn Collection at the Smithsonian and Notah Dineh Trading Post in Cortez, Colorado. She is Director of the Red Mountain Gallery in Ouray, Colorado and founder and editor of the Art In Ouray Virtual Gallery.
	Georgeen Comerford, M.F.A., Brooklyn College, is a photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times and New York magazine, as well as magazines in Italy, Germany, and Canada. She has exhibited her work both nationally and abroad.
	Patricia Cronin, M.F.A. Brooklyn College, is a painter and sculptor whose work is exhibited internationally, including: the Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, David Zwirner Gallery, Brent Sikkema, Deitch Projects, and Alessandra Bonomo. She is a two time receipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and is the winner of the Rome Prize for 2006-7. She is represented by Deitch Projects, New York and Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome.
	Karin F. Giusti, M.F.A., Yale, is a widely-exhibited sculptor whose most recent installation Our House traveled throughout the United States, including to such venues as White Box in New York City. She has shown her work internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner Award, as well as a New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
	Ronaldo Kiel, M.F.A., Brooklyn College, Associate Professor of digital art, has exhibited at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria and the International Media Art Biennale in Poland in addition to Canada, Italy, Paraguay, Ukraine and throughout the U.S. Last year Kiel presented a video installation at "Virtual Bodies" curated by Ivana Bentes in Rio de Janeiro, and participated in the public installation "Novel Lift" at Brooklyn Central Library, among other exhibitions. He has received numerous fellowships including New York Foundation for the Arts (2003) and a Rockefeller Foundation Residency with Anita Cheng (2006).
	Jennifer McCoy, M.F.A., Rennselaer, is a media artist who, with Kevin McCoy, has exhibited nationally and internationally. They are represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York and have work in prominent collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. The McCoys are recipients of the 2002 Creative Capital grant for Emerging Fields.
	Archie Rand is a Presidential Professor of Art, is a painter whose work is exhibited nationally and internationally, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, MoMa, the Bibiliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
	Douglas Schwab, M.F.A., Brooklyn College.
ADJUNCT ART HISTORY FACULTY
	Gerard Haggerty, M.F.A. UC Santa Barbara, has published widely and writes for ARTnews. He has lectured extensively on a variety of subjects at Yale University, American University, LA County Museum of Art, Parsons School of Design and other institutions. His own art is included in the Chrysler Museum, The Portland Art Museum, among others and in private collections such as Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Jack Nicholsons, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. His is a recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.
ADJUNCT STUDIO ART FACULTY
	Arnold Brooks, M.F.A. University of South Florida, Graphicstudio Institute for Research in Art, is a painter and printmaker. Recently, he received a research grant from New School University on experimental intaglio and lithography. His current work explores the inner relationships of sound, video and printmaking. He recently participated in "TekniskUheld", an international sound art exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark.
	David Lantow, M.F.A Brooklyn College, is a painter and printmaker who also worked as a fine art lithographer and print collaborator. Lantow recently exhibited his prints in the Dialogue Exhibits, a survey of contemporary French and American printmakers. His prints are in several collections including, the Banff Museum Library, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Public Library. He is also a recipient of a residency award at the Ragdale Foundation.
ART DEPARTMENT SECRETARY
	Xinia Ennis
MFA Program Coordinator
	Kathleen Smith, B.A. Brooklyn College,Elementary Education and Sociology. Kathleen worked for a financial advertising/public relations agency for 8 years after graduation. For the past 19 years, she has worked in the mental health field as an intake coordinator.
SCULPTURE TECHNICIAN
	Stephen Keltner, M.F.A., Pratt, is a sculptor who has been artist-in-residence for the states of New York and Virginia and, in addition, was a National Endowment for the Arts recipient. He is president of the Sculptors Guild. His works are minimal images fabricated in metal derived from programmed permutations employing the phenomenon of perception.
VISUAL RESOURCES CURATOR
	Stephen Margolies, M.A., New York University, directs the Department's art library and slide collection. His awards include Fulbright and French Government Scholarships. His background is in literature.
PHOTO TECHNICIAN
	Ed Coppola, M.F.A. Brooklyn College. Works by Mr. Coppola, a photographer and sculptor, have been included in curated and solo exhibitions across the U.S., including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle; the Rotunda Gallery and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, both in Brooklyn; the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY; Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ; and St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, NYC.
DIGITAL TECHNICIAN
	Paul Shpuntoff, Paul provides support for the department's digital labs.