Art History Faculty
David Bjelajac
Professor of Art History and American Studies, David Bjelajac received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Modern European History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.
Alexander Dumbadze
Alexander Dumbadze is Associate Professor of Art History.
Gillian Elliott
Dr. Gillian B. Elliott is a historian of Medieval art focusing on the political context of Romanesque sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, specifically in northern Italy and in Alsace, France.
Dr. Elise A. Friedland
Elise A. Friedland holds a BA in Classics from Williams College and an MA and PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan.
Ashley Givens
Ashley Givens is a curator and academic with expertise in nineteenth and twentieth century art.
Katherine Grube
Katherine Grube received her PhD from New York University. She was a 2014 Fulbright Scholar at Peking University and the recipient of the 2013 Asia Art Archive-Robert HN Ho Family Foundation China Research Grant.
Philip Jacks
Philip Jacks is a Professor in the Art History Program within the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.
Andy Johnson
Andy Johnson is a DC-based art historian, curator, and arts writer.
Christiane Joost-Gaugier
Professor Joost-Gaugier earned her AB, AM, and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She was awarded an honorary PBK degree from Harvard University for Lifetime Achievement.
Lisa Lipinski
Lisa Lipinski's teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary art and theoretical approaches to the visual arts, Surrealism and the art of René Magritte, the body in modern and contemporary art, and Abraham Lincoln’s influence on America art and culture.
Katherine Markoski
Katherine Markoski is an art historian with a specialty in modern and contemporary art.
Lynn Matheny
Dr. Matheny currently serves as Deputy Head and Associate Curator of Exhibition Programs at the National Gallery of Art.
Cristin McKnight Sethi
Professor McKnight Sethi is a curator and historian of South Asian art. Her research and teaching interests include textiles and folk art, the intersection of gender and practices of making, networks of circulation and exchange, the anthropology of art, and postcolonial theory.
Mika Natif
Dr. Mika Natif (Ph.D., New York University – Institute of Fine Arts, 2006) is a historian of Medieval art focusing on the intercultural exchanges and global connections that Muslim societies forged with the European sphere in the pre-Modern era.
Bibiana Obler
Professor Obler's research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary art and craft from the late nineteenth century to the present, with emphases on twentieth-century avant-gardes, theories of gender and cross-cultural representation, photography, applied arts, and intellectual history.
Lilien F. Robinson
Born in Slovenia, raised in Serbia and briefly in Switzerland, Professor Robinson's early education was in Serbian and French schools, and thereafter in Washington DC primary and secondary schools.
Barbara von Barghahn
Professor von Barghahn is Professor and Program Head of Art History. She teaches Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, Spanish and Portuguese art, colonial art of Latin America and Brazil.
