Art History Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Alexandra Carpino, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Department Chair

alexandra.carpino@nau.edu

(A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa 1993)

Ancient, classical, and Italian renaissance art; women in antiquity; Etruscan bronze mirrors; patronage and iconography

NAU 1998  

Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, Ph.D., Associate Professor

zsuzsanna.gulacsi@nau.edu

(B.A., M.A., Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University 1998)

Arts of Asia, Buddhist art, Islamic Art, illuminated manuscripts

NAU 2003  

Alyce A. Jordan, Ph.D., Professor

alyce.jordan@nau.edu

(B.A., M.A., Syracuse University; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College 1994)

Medieval, Northern Renaissance, and Baroque art; medieval architecture and stained glass, patronage, narrative

NAU 1994  

Jennifer McLerran, PhD

Assistant Professor

Jen.McLerran@nau.edu

(BFA, Western Washington University; MA, University of Colorado; MFA, Colorado State University; MA, PhD, University of Washington)

Twentieth-century Native American art, museum studies, feminism and visual culture, feminist theory, American art

NAU 2007

Greta Jennings Murphy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

greta.murphy@nau.edu

(B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2003)

Native North American, Pre-Columbian Mexican and Mayan, contemporary Native American art; cultural history of photography; race, gender, and identity

NAU 2002

Tom Patin , PhD

Director of the School of Art and Professor of Art History

Tom.Patin@NAU.EDU

(BFA, Lamar University; MFA, Colorado State University; MA, University of Colorado; PhD, University of Washington)

Art Theory and Criticism, Methodologies, Visual Culture Studies; Twentieth-century American art, Museum Studies, Native American Art

NAU 2007

George V. Speer, PhD

Assistant Professor

George.Speer@nau.edu

(BA, Wake Forest University;

MFA, Trinity University in San Antonio;

MA, Southern Methodist University;

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis)

Twentieth-century American art and culture, ; European art since 1945 and its influence on American

visual culture; European art

from 1789 to 1940; cultural politics of the avant-garde

NAU 2006