Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Fran Altvater altvater@hartford.edu
Assistant Professor of Art History, Hillyer College (Ph.D., Art History, Boston University) Prof. Altvater teaches courses in Medieval, Islamic, British art, and religious architecture. She reviews archaeology, sculpture, and numismatics for Old English Studies and is publishing a book on Romanesque baptismal fonts and contemporaneous theology. She is preparing a survey of art and the sacraments in the Middle Ages.

Sherry Buckberrough buckberro@hartford.edu
Associate Professor and Chair (Ph.D. Art History University of California, Berkeley)
Prof. Buckberrough teaches courses in modern and contemporary art, women in art, history of design and history of color. She has published extensively on early twentieth century abstraction and on modern women artists. She continues to publish on Sonia Delaunay and is organizing a region-wide eco-art festival.

Amanda Carlson amcarlson@hartford.edu
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Art History and African Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Prof. Carlson teaches courses in African art, from ancient to contemporary times, including African photography. She has conducted field research in Eastern Nigeria on the indigenous writing system known as nsibidi. She is currently working on an anthology entitled Africa in Florida, which builds upon her research involving the African Diaspora, and is producing a documentary video, Cross the Water, about Leopard Society masquerades in Nigeria, Cuba, and the U.S.

Margaret Finch finch@hartford.edu
Emerita (Ph.D., Art History-Bryn Mawr College)
Prof. Finch taught intermediate courses in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art and architecture. Her most recent publication is in the anthology Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English. At present, she is working on interactive, multimedia computer assignments on Italian Gothic and Renaissance architecture.

Rhea Higgins rhiggins@wesleyan.edu
Adjunct Professor (M.A., History-Harvard University)
Prof. Higgins teaches introductions to art, surveys of western art, and Women in Art. She lectures frequently on images of women in sacred art. She has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Wesleyan University since 1986.

Nancy Noble nnoble@hartford.edu
Visiting Instructor (M.A., Art History-University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Prof. Noble teaches introductions to art, surveys of western art, and specialized courses in modern European and American art. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware working on gender issues in nineteenth century American art.

Alexandra Onuf onuf@hartford.edu
Assistant Professor(Ph.D., Art History-Columbia University)
Prof. Onuf teaches courses on medieval, Renaissance and baroque art, as well as on the history of printmaking and landscape art. Her own research focuses on early modern print culture in Northern Europe, especially the reception and socio-cultural interpretation of sixteenth-century landscape prints. She is currently preparing her dissertation on the Small Landscape prints for publication, and beginning work on a new project on the artistic legacy of Peter Bruegel the Elder.

Joy M. Pepe jpepe08@comcast.net
Adjunct Professor (MALS Art History-Wesleyan Univeristy)
Prof. Pepe is Professor Emerita of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, where she developed the Art History curriculum. She curates exhibitions for Artspace and the Parachute Factory Gallery in New Haven and juries regional art competitions. She teaches survey coursess and courses in Baroque art.

Raimi Slater rslater@hartford.edu
Adjunct Professor (M.F.A., Hartford Art School, University of Hartford)
Prof. Slater is a studio artist who has exhibited her abstract oil paintings in New York City and locally. Currently, she is working on a series of gouache paintings, which have quirky abstract forms with hard edges, highly saturated colors, and no worldly references. She teaches ART 100.

Toni Stabilo stabilo@hartford.edu
Adjunct Professor (B.A., Art History-Mount Holyoke College)
Prof. Stabilo teaches introductions to art. She is an M.F.A. candidate in photography at the Hartford Art School.

Chung-Lan Wang chwang@hartford.edu
Adjunct Professor (Ph.D. Art History-Yale University)
Prof. Wang teaches surveys of Asian art. She is also an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University where she teaches the introduction to Western art history from Renaissance to Contemporary. Her current research on Chinese art and culture emphasizes the nature of landscape painting concerning especially individual creativity, social function, political implication, regional aesthetics, and cultural meanings in the context of seventeenth-century Nanjing.

Cherra Wyllie wyllie@hartford.edu
Associate Professor of Art History, Hillyer College (Ph.D., Anthropology Yale University)
Prof. Wyllie teaches courses on the Precolumbian art of Mesoamerica and the Andes, as well as ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art, Text and Image, and Anthropology of Art. She publishes widely on the art of ancient Mesoamerica and specializes in the hieroglyphic writing and iconography of Classic Veracruz (Mexico).

Staff
Visual Resources Curator - Susan Hackett suhackett@hartford.edu
Office Coordinator -Martha Whitehead mwhitehea@hartford.edu