Faculty
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Susan Weber
Director and Founder, Iris Horowitz Professor in the History of the Decorative Arts
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Christian Ayne Crouch
Dean of Graduate Studies
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Jeffrey L. Collins
Professor
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Ivan Gaskell
Professor
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Aaron Glass
Professor, Associate Chair of Research Programs
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Freyja Hartzell
Associate Professor, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
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Deborah L. Krohn
Professor, Chair of Academic Programs, Coordinator for History and Theory of Museums
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Meredith B. Linn
Associate Professor, Director of Masters Studies
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François Louis
Professor
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Jennifer L. Mass
Professor
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Caspar Meyer
Professor, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
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Andrew Morrall
Professor
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Helen Polson
Associate Professor of Practice in Writing and Exhibition Interpretations Editor
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Mei Mei Rado
Assistant Professor
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Drew Thompson
Associate Professor
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Ittai Weinryb
Associate Professor, Director of Doctoral Studies, Editor of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
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Catherine Whalen
Associate Professor
Visiting Faculty and Fellows
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Giovanni Acerbis
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2024
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Azra Dawood
Visiting Fellow, Fall 2023
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Hannah Duggan
Cultural Heritage Science Fellow
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Namita Gupta Wiggers
Paul J. Smith Fields of the Future Fellow, Fall 2023
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Lynda Klich
Visiting Fellow, 2023–24
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Lynda Nead
Fields of the Future Fellow, Spring 2024
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Patricia Orpilla
Fields of the Future Fellow, Spring 2024
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Helen Persson Swain
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2024
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Nima Valibeig
Visiting Fellow, Summer & Fall 2023
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Charlotte Vignon
Adjunct Professor, Fall 2023
Faculty Emeriti
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Kenneth L. Ames
Professor Emeritus
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Pat Kirkham
Professor Emerita
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Michele Majer
Professor Emerita
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Elizabeth Simpson
Professor Emerita
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Paul Stirton
Professor Emeritus, Editor in Chief of “West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture”
In Memoriam
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David Jaffee
Professor, Head of New Media Research