Historic List of Clark Professors

Semester(s) Name Affiliation
2025–26 David Young Kim University of Pennsylvania
2024–25 Annie Bourneuf School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2023–24 Michael Gaudio University of Minnesota
2022–23 Kobena Mercer Bard College and CCS Bard
Fall 2022 Hilton Als Columbia University / New Yorker
2021–22 Anne Lafont École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Spring 2021 Joan Kee University of Michigan
Fall 2019 Lynne Tillman SUNY Albany
2018-19 Mel Chen University of California, Berkeley
2018–19 Julia Bryan-Wilson University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2018 Nina Dubin University of Illinois Chicago
2017–18 Mary Roberts University of Sydney
2016–17 Avinoam Shalem Columbia University
2013–14 Rebecca Zorach University of Chicago
2012–13 Erika Naginski Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
2011–12 James Elkins School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010–11 Robin Kelsey Harvard University
2009–10 Michael Cole Columbia University
Spring 2009 T. J. Benton Open University
Fall 2008 Alan Wallach College of William and Mary
Spring 2008 Babatunde Lawal Virginia Commonwealth University
Fall 2007 Chika Okeke-Agulu Pennsylvania State University
Spring 2007 Miranda Marvin Wellesley College
Fall 2006 James Meyer Emory University
Spring 2006 Julia F. Andrews Ohio State University
Fall 2005 S. Hollis Clayson Northwestern University
Spring 2005 Debra Bricker Balken Independent Scholar
Fall 2004 Michael Leja University of Delaware
Spring 2004 Mario Carpo Canadian Centre for Architecture
Fall 2003 Whitney Chadwick San Francisco State University
Spring 2003 Wanda Corn Stanford University
Fall 2002 Renata Holod University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2002 David Perlmutter Louisiana State University
Fall 2001 Michael F. Zimmermann Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
Spring 2001 Keith Moxey Barnard College
Fall 2000 Harry Francis Mallgrave Getty Research Institute
Spring 2000 Andreas Beyer Technische Hochschule, Aachen
Fall 1999 Mark Rosenthal Guggenheim Museum
Spring 1999 William Wallace Washington University
Fall 1998 Jenny Shaffer Independent Scholar
Spring 1998 Suzanne Blier Harvard University
Fall 1997 Rona Goffen Rutgers University
Spring 1997 Janis Tomlinson Woodrow Wilson International Center
Fall 1996 Elizabeth Johns University of Pennsylvania
Spring 1996 Madeline Caviness Tufts University
Fall 1995 Christiane Andersson Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Spring 1995 Eve Blau Canadian Centre for Architecture
Fall 1994 Patricia Mainardi City University of New York
Spring 1994 Abigail Solomon-Godeau University of California Santa Barbara
Fall 1993 Richard Wendorf Houghton Library, Harvard University
Spring 1993 John Szarkowski Museum of Modern Art, emeritus
Spring 1993 Roger Mandle National Gallery of Art
Fall 1992 Brian Wallis Art in America
Spring 1992 Walter Gibson Case Western Reserve University
Fall 1991 Isabelle Hyman New York University
Spring 1991 David Smith University of New Hampshire
Fall 1990 Anne Coffin Hanson Yale University
Spring 1990 Francis V. O’Connor Independent Scholar
Fall 1989 Paul Tucker University of Massachusetts Boston
Spring 1989 Walter Gibson Case Western Reserve University
Fall 1988 John Rupert Martin Princeton University, emeritus
Fall 1988 Richard Edwards University of Michigan
Spring 1988 Edward Sullivan New York University
Fall 1987 Richard Higgins Independent Scholar
Spring 1987 Joel Isaacson University of Michigan
Fall 1986 Marcia Hall Temple University
Spring 1986 Eunice Lipton SUNY Binghamton
Fall 1985 Charles Parkhurst Williams College
Spring 1985 Miranda Marvin Wellesley College
Fall 1984 Marcel Roethlisberger Université de Genève
Spring 1984 James O’Gorman Wellesley College
Fall 1983 John McCoubrey University of Pennsylvania
Spring 1983 Hellmut Wohl Boston University
Fall 1982 Charles Mitchell Bryn Mawr, emeritus
Spring 1982 William L. MacDonald Smith College, emeritus
Fall 1981 H. W. Janson New York University, emeritus
Spring 1981 George B. Tatum University of Delaware
Fall 1980 Jack W. Burnham Northwestern University
Spring 1980 Jaromir Sĭp Narodni Galeri, Prague
Fall 1979 Ellen Smart Rhode Island School of Design
Spring 1979 Jaromir Sĭp Narodni Galeri, Prague
Fall 1978 Albert Boime University of California Los Angeles
Spring 1978 Eve Borsook Center for Renaissance Studies
Winter 1978 Gillett Griffin Princeton University Art Museum
Fall 1977 Daniel Robbins Dartmouth College
Spring 1977 George Heard Hamilton Williams College, emeritus
Winter 1977 John Rosenfield Harvard University
Fall 1976 Creighton Gilbert Queens College
Spring 1976 Sam Hunter Princeton University
Fall 1975 Anthony Morris Clark Metropolitan Museum of Art, formerly
Spring 1975 Elizabeth Mongan Smith College Museum of Art
Fall 1974 Fred S. Licht Florida State University in Florence
Spring 1974 Julius Held Barnard College, emeritus
Fall 1973 Donald Posner New York University
Spring 1973 John Neff Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Fall 1972 Franklin Robinson Dartmouth College
Spring 1971 Andrew C. Ritchie Yale University Art Gallery, emeritus
Spring 1970 Jean Sutherland Boggs National Gallery of Canada
Spring 1969 Julius Held Barnard College, emeritus
Spring 1968 Sherman Lee Cleveland Museum of Art
Spring 1967 Wolfgang Stechow Oberlin College, emeritus
1964–65 Jakob Rosenberg Harvard University, emeritus
1963–64 George Heard Hamilton Yale University
1962–63 Ellis K. Waterhouse Barber Institute of Fine Arts
1961–62 John Pope-Hennessey Victoria and Albert Museum