Core Faculty
| Photo | Name | Title/Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Roland Betancourt | Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Chancellor's Fellow (2018-21) Ph.D. Yale University Interests: Byzantine and Medieval Art, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Histories of race, gender, and sexuality Published Books | roland.betancourt@uci.edu |
 | Matthew Canepa | Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran; Visual Studies Ph.D. University of Chicago Interests: Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian art and archaeology, Iranian visual cultures and Afro-Eurasian exchange, Critical approaches to space, place, landscape, urbanism, and memory Faculty Website Published Books | matthew.canepa@uci.edu |
 | Bridget R. Cooks | Associate Professor of African American Studies, Art History, Culture and Theory and Visual Studies Ph.D. University of Rochester Interests: African-American art, Museum Studies, Feminist and Post-colonial Theory Published Books | b.cooks@uci.edu |
 | Abigail Lapin Dardashti | Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Interests: Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, decolonial theory | alapinda@uci.edu |
 | Lyle Massey | Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Director of the Group for the Study of Early Cultures Ph.D. UCLA Interests: Gender Theory, Italian Renaissance and early modern European art, Science Studies, Medical Humanities Published Books | lmassey@uci.edu |
 | Tyrus Miller | Dean of the School of Humanities, Professor of English, Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Stanford University Interests: Critical Theory and Aesthetics , Modernist and avant-garde studies in literature and visual arts, Modern Architecture and Urbanism, East-Central European studies;, Culture of socialism and post-socialism, Frankfurt School theory | tyrus@uci.edu |
 | James Nisbet | Department Chair of Art History and Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Stanford University Interests: Modern and contemporary art, theory, and historiography, Ecocriticism, Environmental history, History of modern science, History of photography Published Books | jnisbet@uci.edu |
 | Alka Patel | Professor of Art History, History, Religious Studies and Visual Studies Ph.D. Harvard University Interests: Early modern Islamicate diasporas in Cuba, South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, eleventh-eighteenth centuries, Modern historiographies Published Books | alka.patel@uci.edu |
 | Bert Winther-Tamaki | Professor of Art History, Asian American Studies, and Visual Studies Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Interests: Asian-American Art, Modern and contemporary Japanese art and visual culture, Ecocriticism Published Books | dewinthe@uci.edu |
 | Roberta Wue | Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Interests: Modern Chinese art, Photography, Print culture Published Books | rwue@uci.edu |
Photos: Evelina Pentcheva