Faculty

The Program’s uncommonly broad range of instructors nurtures a rich and diverse intellectual climate encompassing varied disciplinary approaches to the history of art. Faculty include professors, researchers, curators, and other staff at Williams, the Clark, WCMA, and MASS MoCA, along with the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professorship and other visiting appointments.

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Cecilia Aldarondo

Assistant Professor of Art

ca5​@williams​.edu
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Michelle Apotsos

Associate Professor and Chair of Art History

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Esther Bell

Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, Clark Art Institute

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Mari Rodríguez Binnie

Assistant Professor of Art

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Christopher Bolton

Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Comparative Literature

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Michael Conforti

Director Emeritus, Clark Art Institute

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Susan Cross

Curator of Visual Arts, MASS MoCA

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Lisa Dorin

Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Williams College Museum of Art

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Holly Edwards

Senior Lecturer in Art

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Ezra Feldman

Lecturer in English and Science and Technology Studies

edf1​@williams​.edu

Caroline Fowler

Starr Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute

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Pam Franks

Class of 1956 Director, Williams College Museum of Art

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Marc Gotlieb

Halvorsen Director of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art

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Guy Hedreen

Amos Lawrence Professor of Art

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Anne Leonard

Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Clark Art Institute

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Michael J Lewis

Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art

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Ziliang (Alex) Liu




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Peter Low

Professor of Art

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Elizabeth McGowan

Professor of Art

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Olivier Meslay

Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute


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Kathleen M. Morris

Sylvia and Leonard Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Curator of Decorative Arts, Clark Art Institute

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Murad Khan Mumtaz

Associate Professor of Art

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Dina Murokh

Assistant Director

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Kevin M. Murphy

Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of American and European Art, Williams College Museum of Art

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Christopher Nugent

Associate Professor of Chinese

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Katarzyna Pieprzak

Chair and Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature

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Elizabeth Sandoval

Assistant Curator, Williams College Museum of Art

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Stefanie Solum

Professor of Art

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Robert Wiesenberger

Curator of Contemporary Projects, Clark Art Institute

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Caitlin Woolsey

Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute

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Emeritus Faculty

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Zirka Filipczak

J. Kirk T. Varnedoe ’67 Professor of Art, Emerita

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Charles “Mark” W. Haxthausen

Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art, Emeritus

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Michael Ann Holly

Starr Director Emeritus, Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute

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Scarlett Jang

Ju-Yu Scarlett Jang

Professor of Art, Emeritus

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Eugene J. Johnson

Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus

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Carol Ockman

Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art Emerita; Curator at Large, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, FL)

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