Faculty

Regular Faculty

Mary Beth Heffernan, Chair

Professor, Art and Art History

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

Linda Besemer

James Irvine Distinguished Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., B.F.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., Tyler School of Art

Eric Frank

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., New York University

Amy Lyford

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Linda Lyke

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., M.F.A., Kent State University

Nancy Marie Mithlo

Associate Professor, Art and Art History; Chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry Museum of the American West

B.A. Appalachian University; M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University

Kelema Lee Moses

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Yurika Wakamatsu

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

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

On Special Appointment

Sandra De la Loza

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; J.D., M.A. Cal State Long Beach

Diana Linden

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., City University of New York; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D., City of University of New York

Susanna Maing

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.F.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Jocelyn Pedersen

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., U.C. Santa Barbara

Ross Rudel

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Montana State University; M.F.A., U.C. Irvine

Sybil Venegas

Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Riverside

David Weldzius

Part-Time NTT Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts

B.F.A. University of Illinois, M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts