2023-2024 Catalog

Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Mary Beth Heffernan, chair

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

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

Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., The University of Texas at El Paso; M.F.A., The University of Texas at Austin

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

Mercedes Dorame

Wanless Artist in Residence
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute

Joel Garcia
Curator in Residence

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

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

Camilla Taylor

Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach

Stephen van Dyck

Visiting Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

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.