Regular Faculty
Mary Beth Heffernan, Chair
Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995
Mary Beth Heffernan is professor of sculpture, photography and interdisciplinary art.
Janna Ireland
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, New York University; MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
Janna Ireland's concentration is in the medium of photography.
Samuel Luterbacher
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Université de Genève; M.A., The Courtauld Institute of Art; Ph.D., Yale University
Samuel Frédéric Luterbacher specializes in Early Modern (1500-1800) art, craft, and material culture in a global context and teaches courses on premodern art histories of the wider Mediterranean world.
Amy Lyford
Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley
Amy Lyford’s research centers on twentieth-century American and European artistic practices, with a special interest in the histories of photography and sculpture.
Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design; MFA, University of Southern California
Yurika Wakamatsu
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Yurika Wakamatsu teaches East Asian art history, including pictorial narratives, woodblock prints, comics and anime, and gender and visual culture. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Kenturah Davis
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., Yale University
Tim Griffin
Wanlass Artist in Residence, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.A. Columbia University; M.F.A. Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts ofBard College
Asuka Hisa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University; National Diploma of Fine Arts, École Supérieure d’Art et Design, Toulon, France
Dhyandra Lawson
Visiting Instructor, Art & Art History
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., Arizona State University
Sami Siegelbaum
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Camilla Taylor
Resident Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach
Stephen van Dyck
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
David Weldzius
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A, University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Patricia Yossen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani; M.F.A., Pratt Institute