Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Amy Lyford, chair

Professor

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

Linda Besemer

James Irvine Distinguished Professor

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

Mary Beth Heffernan

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

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

Nicholas Barlow
Visiting Instructor
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Yeohoon Choi
Visiting Instructor
B.A., M.A., Seoul National University

Kenturah Davis
Visiting Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., Yale University

Kristine Kuramitsu
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Dhyandra Lawson
Visiting Instructor
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Arizona State University

Yi Liu
Visiting Instructor
B.A., Sichuan University; M.A., Ohio University

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

Susanna Maing
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

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  

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

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.