Emily minored in Art History at Skidmore College and earned magna cum laude honors, so she's spent serious time analyzing everything from Byzantine iconography to Impressionist brushwork. She teaches students to read a painting the way you'd read a text — examining composition, symbolism, and histor...

Having studied architecture through both a bachelor's and master's program, Christianna approaches art history from the built environment outward — connecting painting, sculpture, and decorative arts to the architectural spaces they were made for. She's especially strong on European movements from t...

A double concentration in Literary Arts and Visual Arts at Brown means Hasan doesn't just know art movements by name — he can unpack how formal choices in a painting connect to the philosophical, religious, and political currents of its era. He walks students through visual analysis techniques that ...

Connecting a Baroque painting to its political moment or explaining why Impressionism broke every academic rule requires more than memorization — it requires analytical writing and close visual reading. David's liberal arts education bridges those skills, walking students through formal analysis tec...

Stephanie's dual degrees in English and History from Cornell, plus her current master's work in History at Penn, give her a sharp eye for the kind of cross-disciplinary reading art history demands — interpreting a work as both an aesthetic object and a product of its political and social moment. She...

Studying architecture at Columbia means Andrew doesn't just talk about visual analysis in the abstract — he's trained to read buildings, spaces, and design movements as historical documents. He walks students through formal analysis techniques and contextual framing, whether they're tackling Romanes...

Jennifer's communication and rhetoric training translates surprisingly well to art history, where every exam answer and essay boils down to constructing a persuasive argument about what you see and why it matters. She teaches students to move from vague impressions to structured visual readings — id...

Art history isn't Miguel's core discipline, but his English training in close reading and textual analysis translates surprisingly well to visual analysis — breaking down composition, symbolism, and historical context in a painting the same way you'd unpack a poem. He's strongest at teaching student...

Philosophy trains you to trace how ideas move through history — and art history is where those ideas become visible, from the Neoplatonic ideals embedded in Renaissance painting to the existential ruptures of Abstract Expressionism. Adam's philosophy degree gives him a distinctive lens for teaching ...

Analyzing a work of art means reading it as a historical document — understanding patronage, religious context, political propaganda, and material culture all at once. Iris's anthropology degree from the University of Chicago gave her deep practice in exactly this kind of object-based analysis, from...