Regular Faculty
Yurika Wakamatsu, Chair
Associate Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Yurika Wakamatsu teaches East Asian art history, including pictorial narratives, woodblock prints, comics and anime, and gender and visual culture. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Mary Beth Heffernan
Professor and Robert W. Winter Fellow, Art and Art History
B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995
Mary Beth Heffernan is professor of sculpture, photography and interdisciplinary art.
Janna Ireland
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, New York University; MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
Janna Ireland's concentration is in the medium of photography.
Samuel Luterbacher
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Université de Genève; M.A., The Courtauld Institute of Art; Ph.D., Yale University
Samuel Frédéric Luterbacher specializes in Early Modern (1500-1800) art, craft, and material culture in a global context and teaches courses on premodern art histories of the wider Mediterranean world.
Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design; MFA, University of Southern California
Summer Sloane-Britt
Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Prof. Sloane-Britt researches the global history of photography, particularly the intersection of photography and liberation movements.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Tanya Aguiñiga
Wanlass Artist in Residence
B.A. San Diego State University; M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
Sarah Fugfugosh-Muñoz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.A., M.A. California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Umi Hsu
Curator in Residence
B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia
Roksana Pirouzmand
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art & Art History
B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Camilla Taylor
Resident Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach
Stephen van Dyck
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
David Weldzius
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A, University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Patricia Yossen
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani; M.F.A., Pratt Institute