Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Mary Beth Heffernan, chair; designated transfer adviser 

Professor

B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995

Janna Ireland

Assistant Professor

B.F.A., New York University; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Samuel Luterbacher
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Geneva, Switzerland; M.A.,Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Ph.D., Yale University

Amy Lyford

Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III

Assistant Professor

B.F.A., Otis College of Art and Design; M.F.A., University of Southern California

Yurika Wakamatsu

Assistant Professor

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Ariana Corral

Mercedes Dorame

Joel Garcia
Curator in Residence 

Jocelyn Webb Pedersen
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara  

Stephanie Schrader
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Sami Siegelbaum
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Camilla Taylor

Stephen van Dyck

David Weldzius
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Patricia Yossen
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani; M.F.A., Pratt Institute

Other faculty associated with the Art and Art History department can be viewed here.