image link to UIC College of Architecture and the Arts

Esra Akcan

Hannah Higgins photo

Ph.D., History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Columbia University

Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Theory

  • (Land)Fill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City;
  • Intertwined Histories. Turkey and Central Europe, Centropa 7:2 (guest editor);
  • 'Other' Geographies Under Globalization, Domus m, Feb/March 2001 (guest editor)

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Ellen Taylor Baird

Ellen Taylor Baird (photo)

Ph.D., Art History, University Of New Mexico
Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art

  • The Drawings of Sahagun’s Primeros Memoriales: Structure and Style

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Catherine Becker

Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

South Asian Architecture and Art

full description icon more information

full description icon Catherine Becker Homepage

return to top up arrow square image

Robert Bruegmann Professor Emeritus

Robert Bruegmann

Ph.D., Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Modern and contemporary architecture, the decentralizing urban environment

  • Holabird and Roche/Holabird & Root, Catalogue of Work, 1910–1940;
  • Holabird and Roche/Holabird and Root: Chicago Architects;
  • Modernism at Mid-Century: the Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy (editor)
  • Holabird and Roche/Holabird and Root: Chicago Architects;
  • Sprawl: A Compact History.

full description icon more information

full description icon Robert Bruegmann Homepage

return to top up arrow square image

Nina Dubin

Nina Dubin

Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
European Art Since 1700

  • Futures & Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Ross Edman Assistant Professor Emeritus

Asian Art

return to top up arrow square image

Donald L. Ehresmann Associate Professor Emeritus

Medieval Art

return to top up arrow square image

Heather Grossman

grossman photo

Ph.D., Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Architecture, Archaeology and Art History of the Medieval Mediterranean

  • Editor (with Alicia Walker), Medieval Encounters 18 (Forthcoming, 2012); special volume on mechanisms of transmission in artistic and architectural interaction between Byzantium and its neighbors, c1000-1500C.E.

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Peter B. Hales Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., American Civilization, University of Texas, Austin
Photography, American spaces and landscapes, contemporary art

  • Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915;
  • William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape;
  • Constructing the Fair: Charles Dudley Arnold and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893;
  • The Perfect City: Photographs and Meditations (with Bob Thall);
  • Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project
  • Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939
  • The Likes of Us: America in the Eyes of the Farm Security Administration (With Stu Cohen)

full description icon more information | Professor Hales’s Web Site

return to top up arrow square image

Hannah B. Higgins Director of Graduate Studies

Hannah Higgins photo

Ph.D., Art History, University of Chicago
Art since 1945, the Avant Garde

 

  • Fluxus Experience
  • The Grid Book
  • (editor), Fluxus Vivus
  • (curator), Fluxus Vivus
  • (co-curator), Between Sound and Vision, and Mr. Intermedia

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Judith Russi Kirshner Professor of Art and Design, Professor of Art History, Dean of the College of Architecture and the Arts

M.A., Art History, Bryn Mawr

Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism

 

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Victor Margolin Professor Emeritus

Victor Margolin photo

Ph.D., Design History, Union Institute
Design history, theories of modern and contemporary art and society

  • American Poster Renaissance: The Great Age of Poster Design, 1890–1900;
  • Design Discourse: History, Thought, Criticism (editor);
  • Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (co-editor);
  • The Idea of Design (co-editor);
  • The Struggle for Utopia: Lissitzky, Rodchenko, and
    Moholy-Nagy: 1917–1947
  • The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies
  • Culture is Everywhere

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Virginia E. Miller Chairperson

Virginia Miller photo

Ph.D., Art History, University of Texas, Austin
Pre-Columbian and Native American art

  • The Frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes, Acanceh, Yucatan, Mexico;
  • The Role of Gender in Precolumbian Art and Architecture (editor)

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Robert Munman Associate Professor Emeritus

Robert Munman photo

Ph.D., Art History, Harvard University
Renaissance art

  • Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello;
  • Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Martha Pollak Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ph.D., History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Renaissance and Baroque architecture, architectural theory, military architecture

  • Turin 1560–1680: Urban Design, Military Culture and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital
  • Military Architecture, Cartography, and the Representation of the Early Modern European City
  • The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge
  • Italian and Spanish Books: Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, The Mark Millard Architectural Collection, National Gallery of Art

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Sidney K. Robinson Professor Emeritus

Modern Architecture

return to top up arrow square image

David M. Sokol Professor Emeritus

David Sokol photo

Ph.D., American Civilization, New York University
American art, modern art, museology

  • The Noble Room: The Inspired Conception and Tumultuous Creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple;
  • American Vision: Paintings from a Century of Collecting;
  • Life in 19th Century America;
  • American Art: Painting-Sculpture-Architecture-Decorative Arts-Photography (co-author)

full description icon more information

return to top up arrow square image

Jennifer L. Tobin Associate Professor of Classics and Art History

Greek and Roman Art

return to top up arrow square image

Visiting Faculty 2010-2011
  • Catherine Burdick
  • Sarah Dreller
  • SooJin Lee
  • Daniel Schulman
Visiting Faculty 2009-2010
  • Margaret Denny
  • Aleksander Najda
  • Brandon Ruud
  • Mirela Tanta
Visiting Faculty 2008-2009
  • Zurich Esposito
  • Robert Grassel
Visiting Faculty 2007-2008
  • Suzan Ford
  • Lisa Yun Lee
  • Deborah Stokes
  • Lori Barbara Waxman
  • Olivia Vitale
Visiting Faculty 2006-2007
  • Greg Cameron
  • Diane Dillon
  • Suzan Ford
  • Sarita Heer
  • Patricia Kelly
  • Annika Marie
  • Jonathan Miller
  • Christa Robbins
  • Anne Rorimer
  • Deborah Stokes
Visiting Faculty 2005-2006
  • Ann Marie Borys
  • Annika Marie
  • Morgan Mills
  • Deborah Stokes
  • Galina Tirnanic
Visiting Faculty 2004-2005
  • Sandra Michels Adams
  • Ann Marie Borys
  • Gregory Cameron
  • Caroline Goldthorpe
  • Annika Marie
  • Maren Nelson
  • Michael Rabens
  • Anne Rorimer
  • Deborah Stokes
Visiting Faculty 2003–2004
  • Ann Marie Borys
  • Susan Jarosi
  • Malgorzata Koscialek
  • Jonathan Miller
  • Michael Rabens
  • Gitti Salami

return to top up arrow square image