Renée Ater, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Maryland
American Art

Anthony Colantuono, Associate Professor
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
Seventeenth-Century Italian, French, and Spanish Art

Meredith J. Gill, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Art

June Hargrove, Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture

Shannen Hill, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
African Art

Jason Kuo, Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Chinese Art

Steven A. Mansbach, Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Twentieth-Century Art

Abigail McEwen, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Latin American Art

William L. Pressly, Professor and Chair
Ph.D. New York University
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art

Joshua Shannon, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Contemporary Art History & Theory

Yui Suzuki, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Japanese Art

Marjorie S. Venit, Professor and Director of Academic Programs
Ph.D. New York University
Ancient Mediterranean Art History & Archaeology

Alicia Volk, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Yale University
Japanese Art

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Distinguished Affiliates

Franklin Kelly
Ph.D. University of Delaware
American Art

Richard Spear
Ph.D. Princeton University
Italian Baroque Art

Emeriti and Adjunct Faculty

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Jason Kuo
Chinese Art

Office: 4221 Art-Sociology Building

Email: inkpine@yahoo.com

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Jason C. Kuo has taught at the National Taiwan University , Williams College , and Yale University . His single-author books and exhibition catalogs include Wang Yüan-ch'i's Art of Landscape Painting (Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1981); Trapping Heaven and Earth in the Cage of Form (Taipei: Shih-pao wen-hua Publishing, 1986); Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-hung (Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 1989); The Austere Landscape: The Paintings of Hung-jen (Taipei and New York: SMC Publishing in cooperation with University of Washington Press, 1991); Word as Image: The Art of Chinese Seal Engraving (New York: China Institute in America; distributed by University of Washington Press, 1992); Chen Chikwan (Taipei: Chin-hsiu Publishing, 1995); Rethinking Art History and Art Criticism (Taipei: National Museum of History, 1996); Practicing Art History and Art Criticism (Taipei: National Museum of History, 2002); and Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2004). He is the editor of several books and exhibition catalogs, including Sense of Beauty and Creation of Form (Taipei: Lian-ching Publishing, 1982); The Paintings of Lo Ch'ing (Taipei: Tung-ta Publishing, 1990); Contemporary Essays on Painting in Taiwan, 1945-1990 (Taipei: Hsiung-shih Publishing, 1991); Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Painting from the Tsien-hsiang-chai Collection (distributed by University of Washington Press, 1993); The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics (distributed by University of Washington Press, 1995); Visual Culture in Taiwan, 1975-1995 (Taipie: I-shu-chia Publishing, 1995); Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with Art Historians (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2006); Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s–1930s (Washington, D.C.: New Academia, 2007); Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting (Washington, D.C.: New Academia, 2008); and Stones from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America (Washington, D.C.: New Academia, 2009). His writings have appeared in numerous journals, including Art Journal , Asian Culture Quarterly , Chinese Culture Quarterly , Chinese Studies , Bulletin of the National Palace Museum , Orientations , China Quarterly , Journal of Asian Studies , Journal of Asian and African Studies , and Ars Orientalis . He has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Stoddard Fellowships in Asian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, two fellowships from the J. D. Rockefeller III Fund, and many other scholastic honors. In 1991–1992, he received the Lilly Fellowship for teaching excellence at the University of Maryland . In 1992–1993 he organized and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers on “The Art of Imperial China.” From 1993 to 1998, he undertook the study of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Shanghai , a research project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation that combined the work of six scholars from China and six from the United States . He directed the Summer Institute of Connoisseurship in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting from 2001 to 2003, also funded by the Luce Foundation. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Taipei in 2001–2002.