Modern/Contemporary Program

Faculty

Graduate faculty

*Indicates faculty who are eligible to supervise PhD students

*Christopher Drew Armstrong
18th- and 19th-century European and North American art and architecture

*Josh Ellenbogen
history of photography

*Gao Minglu
Contemporary Chinese art
Recent Publication: The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art

*Barbara McCloskey
20th-century German art; Exiles
Recent Publication: Artists in World War II

*Kirk Savage
19th- and 20th-century U.S. art; Public Monuments
Work in progress: Monument Wars: The Changing Memorial Landscape of Washington, D.C.

*Terry Smith
Contemporary Art and Architecture; Aboriginal/Australian Art
Works in progress: What Is Contemporary Art?; spectacle.architecture.iconomy.9.11.01
In press: The Architecture of Aftermath

Emeritus faculty

Aaron Sheon
Professor Emeritus, 19th-Century French art

Contributing faculty

Gretchen Bender
19th-Century German art

Helena Goscilo
Modern Russian Literature/Art

*Frank Toker
Pittsburgh Architecture; Frank Lloyd Wright
Recent Publications: Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House (Knopf)
Forthcoming Book: Buildings of Pittsburgh (Society of Architectural Historians and Center for American Places, April 2007)