[ Email ] Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture, campus planning and architecture.
Mailing address:
Virginia Jansen
University of California, Santa Cruz
Cowell Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Raoul Birnbaum
[ Email ] (831) 459-4155
Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture.
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China.
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1-3pm, and by appointment
Office Location: Kresge College, Room 246
Mailing address:
Raoul Birnbaum
University of California, Santa Cruz
Kresge College
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ Email ] (831) 459-4660
Presidential Chair of History of Art and Visual Culture;
Director, Focused Research Activity in Performance & Visual Studies.
Core faculty member: Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, and Pre-and Early Modern Studies. Books, articles, and research in the fields of European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; Performance studies; Early Modern Italian art; Media history, including Film; and Jewish identity and representation.
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4pm
Office Location: Cowell College, Room 203
Mailing address:
Catherine M. Soussloff
University of California, Santa Cruz
Cowell Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ Email ] (831) 459-4671 European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice; portraiture.
Office Hours: Fridays, 3-5pm
Office Location: Kresge College, Room 226
Mailing address:
Donna Hunter
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Assistant Professors
Maria Evangelatou
[Email] (831) 502-7161 Medieval visual culture, with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies.
Office Hours: Mondays, 2-4pm (HAVC 80X and 190R students only)
Office Location: Porter College, Room 206
Mailing address:
Maria Evangelatou
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
History of architecture and urbanism, with specialized research interests in Baroque and Neoclassical architecture in Italy and post-WWII architecture in the United States and Europe.
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 4-6pm, and by appointment, (HAVC 124 and 179 students only)
Office Location: Porter College, Room 227
Mailing Address:
Jeffrey Lieber
University of California, Santa Cruz
History of Indian Art, Buddhist Studies, Indology, Sanskrit and Tibetan Studies, History of Religions, Mahayana Sutra Literature and the Nature of Mahayana Buddhism as religious movement.
Office Hours: Thuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3pm, (HAVC 183 and 190W students only)
Office Location: Porter College, Room 226
Mailing Address:
Nick Morrissey
University of California, Santa Cruz
