Our People

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Jessica Baran

Graduate Student, PhD
Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies

E-mail: jabaran@wustl.edu
Advisor: Ila Sheren

Otto Brendel

Professor

Nichole Bridges

Morton D. May Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Saint Louis Art Museum

Karen Brock

Associate Professor

Jay Buchanan

Graduate Student, MA/PhD
Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies

E-mail: jay.b@wustl.edu
Advisor: Ila Sheren

Elizabeth C. Childs

Etta and Mark Steinberg Professor of Art History

Kemper 213

E-mail: ecchilds@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5270

David Conradsen

The Grace L. Brumbaugh and Richard E. Brumbaugh Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Saint Louis Art Museum

Maggie Crosland

Etta Steinberg Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

E-mail: mcrosland@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-8981

Katie DiDomenico

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: didomenico.k@wustl.edu
Advisor: Claudia Swan

Christopher Dingwall

Assistant Professor
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Walker 202

E-mail: dingwall@wustl.edu

Max Dunbar

Visiting Lecturer
PhD 2024, Washington University in St. Louis

E-mail: mdunbar@wustl.edu

Brooke Eastman

Graduate Student, PhD
Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies

E-mail: b.h.eastman@wustl.edu
Advisor: Angela Miller

Sabine Eckmann

William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Tomos Evans

Assistant Professor, Art History and Archaeology and African and African-American Studies

Kemper 10 B; McMillan 247

E-mail: tomos@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4358

Esther Gabel

Lecturer in Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 219

E-mail: esther.gabel@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4358

Cornelia Homburg

Curator, Washington University Gallery of Art (1994-1996)

Philip Hu

Curator of Asian Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

Christopher Hunt

Graduate Student, PhD

Julie James

Visiting Lecturer

Kemper 012

E-mail: julie.james@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5270

Nathaniel B. Jones

Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Director of Graduate Studies, Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 214

E-mail: nbjones@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4519

Simon Kelly

Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

John Klein

Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 215

E-mail: jrklein@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4662

Kristina Kleutghen

David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 218

E-mail: kleutghen@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4427

Gavin Kroeber

Visiting Lecturer

E-mail: gkroeber@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5270

Jillian Lepek

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: j.lepek@wustl.edu
Advisor: Ila Sheren

Yihao (Rayna) Li

Graduate Student, MA/PhD

E-mail: l.rayna@wustl.edu
Advisor: Kristina Kleutghen

Eric Lutz

Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum

Claire Lyman

Graduate Student, MA/PhD

E-mail: c.e.lyman@wustl.edu
Advisor: Nathaniel B. Jones

Meredith Malone

Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Judith Mann

Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum

Alex Marr

Associate Curator of Native American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

Hoyon Mephokee

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: mephokee@wustl.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth C. Childs

Angela Miller

Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 221

E-mail: almiller@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5275

Eric Mumford

Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture

Steinberg 201

E-mail: epm@wustl.edu

Lacy Murphy

Visiting Lecturer
PhD 2023, Washington University in Saint Louis 2025-2026, Scholar-in-Residence and Teaching Fellow, University of Houston

George Mylonas

Chair, Department of Art History and Archaeology Distinguished Professor

Dana Ostrander

Assistant Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Caitlin Petty

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: c.m.petty@wustl.edu
Advisor: William E. Wallace

Weixun Qu

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: q.weixun@wustl.edu
Advisor: Claudia Swan

Eve Rosekind

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: erosekind@wustl.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth C. Childs

Susan Rotroff

Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Department of Classics

June Scalia

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: j.scalia@wustl.edu
Advisor: John Klein

Ila Sheren

Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 216

E-mail: isheren@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4487

Norris K. Smith

Professor

Deborah Spivak

Korff Postdoctoral Fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas, 2017-2020

E-mail: despivak@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-9244

Cara Starke

Director, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Lawrence D. Steefel, Jr.

Steinberg Professor of Art History

Mo Stein

Graduate Student, MA

E-mail: m.k.stein@wustl.edu

Jean Sutherland Boggs

Steinberg Professor of Art History

Claudia Swan

The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History

Kemper 220

E-mail: claudiaswan@wustl.edu

Sarantis Symeonoglou

Emeritus Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 219

E-mail: ssymeono@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4519

Emily Thompson

Graduate Student, PhD

Robert Thorp

Professor
Chair, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Amy Torbert

Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator, American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

William Wallace

Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Chair of Art History and Archaeology

Kemper 219

E-mail: wwallace@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5223

Mark S. Weil

E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus

Scott Weiss

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Spring 2022

Stephanie Weissberg

Senior Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Sarah Weston

Assistant Professor of English
Art History & Archaeology Department (Affiliate)

Office: Duncker 204a

E-mail: westons@wustl.edu

Betha Whitlow

Curator of Visual Resources + Lecturer

Kemper 010E

E-mail: bwhitlow@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-5256

Hannah Wier

Graduate Student, PhD

E-mail: hannah.wier@wustl.edu
Advisor: Elizabeth C. Childs

Melissa Wolfe

Curator of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum

Nelson Wu

Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of the History of Art and Chinese Culture