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 Buckberroughbuckberro@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 Delauney 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 . 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 and teaches for Hartford College for Women. She has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Wesleyan University since 1986.

Lauren Marchaza marchaza@hartford.edu
Adjunct Professor (M.A., Art History, Ohio University)
Prof. Marchaza teaches introductions to art, Western art surveys, and history of photography. She also teaches art history in Hillyer College the Italian Renaissance in the AUC Program. Her areas of expertise are Italian Renaissance art and Native North American art with an emphasis on museum practices and ethnographic display.

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 Onufonuf@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.

Raimi Slater raimi@raimislater.com
Adjunct Professor (M.F.A., Hartford Art School, University of Hartford)
Prof. Slater teaches introductions to art. She is an artist who experiments with multiple media in painting. She teaches as well for the Hartford Art School.

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.

Cherra Wyllie wyllie@hartford.edu
Assistant Professor of Art History, Hillyer College (Ph.D., Anthropology Yale University)
Prof. Wyllie teaches art surveys, and courses in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art, Mesoamerican art, Text and Image, and Anthropology of Art. She publishes widely on Mesoamerican art and specializes in Veracruz hieroglyphic writing and iconography.

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