Faculty Directory
Art History Faculty | Studio Art Faculty | Curatorial Studies Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Part-Time Faculty
Art History Faculty
Christopher Fulton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
150 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.7629 • Web site • Email Dr. Fulton
Research: Mexican and Italian art
Benjamin Hufbauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
149 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0442 • Web site •Email Dr. Hufbauer
Research: Presidential Libraries • Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration • Public History • Film
Susan Jarosi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Art History
144 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0443 • Web site • Email Dr. Jarosi
Research: Contemporary Art • Performance Art • Viennese Actionism • Trauma Studies • Intersections of Art and Science • Experimental Cinema • Artists' Writings
Pearlie Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pan-African Studies and Art History
142 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0446 • Web site • Email Dr. Johnson
Research: African Cultural Features in African American Cultural Productions • African American Women’s History in the Quilting Arts in Kentucky • African American Contemporary Quilts (National and International)
Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
Director of Graduate Studies in Art History
147 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0444 • Web site • Email Dr. Kim
Research: 19th and 20th-century European art • Queer visual culture • Orientalism
Delin Lai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
146 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0445 • Web site • Email Dr. Lai
Chinese Art • Japanese Art • Eastern Asia Landscape Art • 20th Century Chinese Artists and Architects • Cities, Architecture, and Gardens of China and Japan
Mónica Walker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (term), Art History
143 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.1548 • Email Dr. Walker
Critical and Curatorial Studies Faculty
Yasmeen Siddiqui, M.A.
Interim Director of Galleries • Instructor (term)
107 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.4483 • Email Yasmeen Siddiqui
Research: Public Art
Peter Morrin, M.F.A.
Associate in Fine Arts
409 Stevenson Hall • Phone: 502.852.2361 • Web site • Email Peter Morrin
Research: Public Art
Studio Art Faculty
Moon-he Baik, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Interior Design
25 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0945 • Web site • Email Moon-he Baik
Research: Interior Design • Textile Design • Multi-cultural Interiors • Sustainablity and Environmental Design
Todd Burns, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Ceramics
138 Studio Arts / HP • Phone: 502.852.6796 • Web site • Email Todd Burns
Research: Wheel Throwing • Wood Firing • Majolica • Ceramic Vessles
Kyoungmee Kate Byun, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Interior Design
27A Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0979 • Web site • Email Kate Byun
Research: Design of Third place for enhancing social interaction • Environmental Design for Older Adults • Interdisciplinary approach between architecture and interior design • Humanizing design
Mary Carothers, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Photography
8 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0836 • Web site • Email Mary Carothers
Research: Photography • Urban and Public Art • Video • Documentary • Instillations • Collaborative Projects
Ying Kit Chan, M.F.A.
Professor | Chair, Department of Fine Arts | Director, Hite Art Institute
110 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.6794 • Web site • Email Ying Kit Chan
Research: Contemporary practices in drawing • Digital media and new media studies • Contemporary art issues • Cross cultural and critical theories • Chinese arts theory and criticism • Analytic and continental aesthetics • Sustainability and environmental ethics
Mitch Eckert, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Photography
11 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0870 • Web site • Email Mitch Eckert
Research: Photography • Alternative and Historical Processes
Lida Gordon, M.F.A.
Professor, Fiber
23B Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0906 • Web site • Email Lida Gordon
Research: Fiber Arts • Mixed Media • Papermaking • Surface Design
James Grubola, M.F.A.
Professor, Drawing
Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art
Director of Graduate Studies in Critical and Curatorial Studies
115 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0759 • Web site • Email James Grubola
Research: Figure Drawing • Anatomy and Life Drawing • Themes and Concepts in Drawing
Barbara Hanger, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Art Education
18 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0879 • Web site • Email Barbara Hanger
Research: Contemporary practices in drawing, papermaking and book arts • Contemporary research and practice in art education
Scott Massey, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Sculpture
140 Studio Arts / HP • Phone: 502.852.6863 • Web site • Email Scott Massey
Research: Contemporary Sculpture Practices and Theory • Public Art • Ritualism
Gabrielle Mayer, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Painting
113B Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0803 • Web site • Email Gabrielle Mayer
Research: Oil and Illusionistic painting
Mark Priest, M.F.A.
Professor, Painting
109A Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.1016 • Web site • Email Mark Priest
Resaerch: Figure Drawing and Painting • Underground Railroad
Ché Rhodes, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Glass
Cressman Center • Phone: 502.852.0277 • Web site • Email Che Rhodes
Research: Hot Glass • Sculpture • Instillation
Steven Skaggs, M.Sc.
Professor, Graphic Design
33 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0807 • Web site • Email Steven Skaggs
Research: Semiotics • Poetry • Typography
Leslie Friesen, B.A.
Instructor (term)
Power Creative Designer-in-Residence • Graphic Design
28 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.3605 • Web site • Email Leslie Friesen
Research: Designing for Public Issues • Communications
Philip Miller, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor (term), Foundations
29 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.6794 • Email Philip Miller
Morgan Professors
Spring 2013
Hazel Dodge, Ph.D.
Louis Claude Purser Senior Lecturer
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Dublin, Ireland • Web site
Research: Roman construction and building technology
Spring 2014
Georg Leidenberger, Ph.D.
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Cuajimalpa-Mexico City, Mexico • Web site
Bingham Professor
Spring 2015
Bruce Hainley, Ph.D.
Professor, Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, CA • Web site
Adjunct Faculty
Ester Bell, Ph.D.
Curator of European Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
Cincinnati Art Museum
Anna Brzyski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Art and Visual Studies
University of Kentucky • Web site
Madeline Burnside, Ph.D.
Executive Director Emerita
Frazier International History Museum
Scott Erbes, M.A.
Chief Curator
Speed Art Museum
Henry Hornstein, M.F.A.
Professor of Photography
Rhode Island School of Design
Rebecca Long, M.A.
Associate Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture before 1945
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Aldy Milliken, B.S.
Director and Cheif Curator
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Suzanne Weaver, M.A.
Modern and Contemporary Art
Independent Curator
Part-time Faculty
Cristina Carbone, Ph.D.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.2324
Email Dr. Carbone
Steven Cheek, M.F.A.
Ceramics
Phone: 502-852-6794
Email Steven Cheek
Wendy Dunleavy, M.A.
Foundations
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Wendy Dunleavy
Brian Faust, B.F.A.
Graphic Design
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Brian Faust
Matthew Landrus, Ph.D.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.5914
Email Matthew Landrus
Sharon Leightty, M.F.A.
Drawing
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Sharon Leightty
Aaron Metté, M.F.A.
Drawing
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Aaron Mette
Bess Reed, Ph.D.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.0442
Email Bess Reed
Mark Rosenthal
Graphic Design
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Mark Rosenthal
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Eston Adams, M.A.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.6794
email Eston Adams
Flint Collins, M.A.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.5914
Email Flint Collins
Emeriti
John Begley, M.F.A.
Thomas Buser, Ph.D.
Stow Chapman, M.Arch.
Henry Chodkowski, M.F.A.
Dario Covi, Ph.D.
Phone: 502.852.0447
Email Dario Covi
Julia Duncan, M.A.
Linda Gigante, Ph.D.
Jay Kloner, Ph.D.
Stephanie Maloney, Ph.D.
Suzanne Mitchell, M.F.A.
William Morgan, Ph.D.
Nancy Pearcy, M.A.
John Whitesell, M.F.A.
Printmaking, 2 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0828 • Email John Whitesell
List of Frederic Lindley Morgan Professors
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