Faculty Directory
Art History Faculty | Studio Art Faculty | Curatorial Studies Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Part-Time Faculty
Department Chair
Scott Massey, M.F.A.
Director, Hite Art Institute • Chairperson, Department of Fine Arts
Associate Professor, Sculpture
Room 104, Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.6794 • Website • Email Scott Massey
Art History Faculty
Christopher Fulton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
150 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.7629 • Website • Email Dr. Fulton
Research: Mexican and Italian Art
Benjamin Hufbauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History
149 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0442 • Website • 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
313 Stevenson Halll • Phone: 502.852.0443 • Website • 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 • Fine Arts website • Pan-African Studies website • 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 • Website • Email Dr. Kim
Research: 19th and 20th-century European Art • Queer visual culture • Orientalism
Delin Lai, Ph.D.
Professor, Art History
146 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0445 • Website • Email Dr. Lai
Research: Chinese Art • Japanese Art • Eastern Asia Landscape Art • 20th Century Chinese Artists and Architects • Cities, Architecture, and Gardens of China and Japan
Critical and Curatorial Studies Faculty
Chris Reitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Program Head, Critical and Curatorial Studies
Gallery Director, Hite Art Institute
145 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0441• Website • Email Chris Reitz
Research: Art and Exhibitions in the Era of Neoliberalism • the Art Market • Critical Theory
Studio Art Faculty
Moon-he Baik, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Interior Design
25 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0945 • Website • 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 • Website • 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 • Website • 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
Tiffany Calvert, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Painting
113B Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0803 • Website • Email Tiffany Calvert
Research:Contemporary Painting • Media Theory
Mary Carothers, M.F.A.
Professor, Photography
8 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0836 • Website • Email Mary Carothers
Research: Photography • Urban and Public Art • Video • Documentary • Installations • Collaborative Projects
Ying Kit Chan, M.F.A.
Professor, foundations, drawings, art and social change
144 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0806 • Website • 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 • Website • Email Mitch Eckert
Research: Photography • Alternative and Historical Processes
James Grubola, M.F.A.
Professor, Drawing
Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art
115 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0759 • Website • 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 • Website • Email Barbara Hanger
Research: Contemporary practices in drawing, papermaking and book arts • Contemporary research and practice in art education
Meena Khalili, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
29 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.1079 • Website • Email Meena Khalili
Research: Graphic and Publication Design • Typographic Design • Digital Media and New Media Studies • Interactive and Print Design • Experimental Design • Traditional and Digital Illustration • Book Arts
Scott Massey, M.F.A.
Director, Hite Art Institute and Chairperson, Department of Fine Arts
Associate Professor, Sculpture
140 Studio Arts / HP • Phone: 502.852.6863 • Website • Email Scott Massey
Research: Contemporary Sculpture Practices and Theory • Public Art • Ritualism
Mark Priest, M.F.A.
Professor, Painting
109A Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.1016 • Website • Email Mark Priest
Research: Figure Drawing and Painting • Underground Railroad
Ché Rhodes, M.F.A.
Associate Professor, Glass
Cressman Center • Phone: 502.852.0277 • Website • Email Che Rhodes
Research: Hot Glass • Sculpture • Installation
Rachel Singel, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor, Printmaking
2 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0828 • Website • Email Rachel Singel
Research: Printmaking
Steven Skaggs, M.Sc.
Professor, Graphic Design
33 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.0807 • Website • Email Steven Skaggs
Research: Semiotics • Graphic Design Theory • Typography • Visual Identity Systems
Term & Part-time Faculty
Leslie Friesen, B.A.
Power Agency Designer-in-Residence, Graphic Design
28 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.3605 • Website • Email Leslie Friesen
Research: Design for Public Issues • Print and Digital Publication Design
Bill Gilliss, M.Arch.
Interior Design
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Bill Gilliss
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
Philip Miller, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor (term), Foundations
10 Schneider Hall • Phone: 502.852.6794 • Email Philip Miller
Katie Ovechkin, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor (term), Fiber / Mixed Media
Director, International Honor Quilt Project
143 Lutz Hall • Phone: 502.852.0906 • Email Katie Ovechkin
Bess Reed, Ph.D.
Art History
Phone: 502.852.0442
Email Bess Reed
Aaron Raymer, M.F.A.
Sculpture
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Aaron Raymer
Mark Rosenthal
Graphic Design
Phone: 502.852.6794
Email Mark Rosenthal
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Lauren Bader, B.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Lauren Bader
Reid Broadstreet, B.F.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Reid Broadstreet
Tammy Burke, B.F.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Tammy Burke
Shae Goodlett, B.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Shae Goodlett
Helen Payne, B.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Helen Payne
Zahid Saeed, B.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Zahid Saeed
Monica Stewart, B.F.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email Monica Stewart
KCJ Szwedzinski, B.A., M.F.A. Student
Studio Art
Phone: 502.852.5307
Email KCJ Szwedzinski
Morgan Professors
Spring 2013
Hazel Dodge, Ph.D.
Louis Claude Purser Senior Lecturer
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Dublin, Ireland • Website
Research: Roman construction and building technology
Spring 2014
Georg Leidenberger, Ph.D.
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Cuajimalpa-Mexico City, Mexico • Website
Bingham Professor
Spring 2015
Bruce Hainley, Ph.D.
Professor, Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, CA • Website
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 • Website
Madeline Burnside, Ph.D.
Executive Director Emerita
Frazier International History Museum
Scott Erbes, M.A.
Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
Speed Art Museum
Erika Holmquist-Wall, Ph.D.
Chief Curator and Mary and Barry Bingham, Sr. Curator
of European and American Paintings and Sculpture
Speed Art Museum
Henry Hornstein, M.F.A.
Professor of Photography
Rhode Island School of Design
Miranda Lash, M.A.
Curator of Contemporary Art
Speed Art Museum
Rebecca Long, M.A.
Associate Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture before 1945
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Aldy Milliken, B.S.
Director and Chief Curator
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Dean Otto, M.A.
Curator of Film
Speed Art Museum
Suzanne Weaver, M.A.
Modern and Contemporary Art
San Antonio Museum of Art
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.
Lida Gordon, M.F.A.
Email Lida Gordon
Jay Kloner, Ph.D.
Stephanie Maloney, Ph.D.
Gabrielle Mayer, M.F.A.
Suzanne Mitchell, M.F.A.
Peter Morrin, M.F.A.
William Morgan, Ph.D.
Nancy Pearcy, M.A.
John Whitesell, M.F.A.
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