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.

Cecilia Aldorondo

Assistant Professor of Art

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Michelle Apotsos

Associate Professor and Chair of Art History

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Esther Bell

Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Clark Art Institute

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Mari Rodríguez Binnie

Assistant Professor of Art

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Christopher Bolton

Professor of Comparative and Japanese 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

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

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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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Michael Glier

Alexander Falck Class of 1899 Professor 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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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

Assistant Professor of Art

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Dina Murokh

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

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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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Glenn Peers

Professor, Syracuse University

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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 Diretor 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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