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.
Michelle Apotsos
Associate Professor and Chair of Art History[email protected]
Trenton Barnes
Assistant Professor, Native American and Indigenous Artstdb3@williams.edu
Esther Bell
Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Mari Rodríguez Binnie
Associate Professor of Art[email protected]
Christopher Bolton
Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Comparative Literature[email protected]
Dan Byers
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Williams College Museum of Art
Michael Conforti
Director Emeritus, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Christine DeLucia
Associate Professor of History
Susan Cross
Curator of Visual Arts, MASS MoCA[email protected]
Lisa Dorin
Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Williams College Museum of Art[email protected]
Holly Edwards
Senior Lecturer in Art[email protected]
Ezra Feldman
Lecturer in English and Science and Technology Studiesedf1@williams.edu
Caroline Fowler
Starr Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Pam Franks
Class of 1956 Director, Williams College Museum of Art[email protected]
Marc Gotlieb
Halvorsen Director of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art[email protected]
Guy Hedreen
Amos Lawrence Professor of Art[email protected]
Anne Leonard
Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Michael J Lewis
Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art[email protected]
Ziliang (Alex) Liu
Assistant Professor of Art, Art Department[email protected]
Peter Low
Professor of Art[email protected]
Elizabeth McGowan
Professor of Art[email protected]
Olivier Meslay
Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute
Kathleen M. Morris
Sylvia and Leonard Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Curator of Decorative Arts, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Murad Khan Mumtaz
Associate Professor of Art[email protected]
Dina Murokh
Assistant Director[email protected]
Kevin M. Murphy
Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of American and European Art, Williams College Museum of Art[email protected]
Christopher Nugent
John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese[email protected]
Katarzyna Pieprzak
Chair and Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature[email protected]
Elizabeth Sandoval
Assistant Curator, Williams College Museum of Art[email protected]
Will Schmenner
Head of Public Program, Clark Art Institute
Stefanie Solum
Professor of Art[email protected]
Robert Wiesenberger
Curator of Contemporary Projects, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Caitlin Woolsey
Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Emeritus Faculty
Zirka Filipczak
J. Kirk T. Varnedoe ’67 Professor of Art, Emerita[email protected]
Charles “Mark” W. Haxthausen
Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art, Emeritus[email protected]
Michael Ann Holly
Starr Director Emeritus, Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute[email protected]
Ju-Yu Scarlett Jang
Professor of Art, Emeritus[email protected]
Eugene J. Johnson
Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus[email protected]
Carol Ockman
Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art Emerita; Curator at Large, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, FL)[email protected]