O’Donnell Institute faculty form an intellectual community dedicated to collaboration and exchange.
O’Donnell Institute Faculty
Ali Asgar Alibhai
PhD, Harvard University
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Medieval Islamic Art History; Material and Cultural History of the Islamic World
Anne Balsamo
PhD, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
Professor, Arts and Humanities Distinguished University Chair
Co-Director, Public Interactives Research Lab
Director, the Living Architecture Lab
Digital Cultural Heritage; Cultures of Innovation; Emerging Technologies
Erika Doss
PhD, University of Minnesota
Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
20th- and 21rst-century American Art; public art, monuments, and memorials; cultural affect
Sarah K. Kozlowski
PhD, Yale University
Associate Director and Head of Scholarly Research & Programs, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
Director, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities
Medieval and Renaissance art; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century painting in Naples and Europe
Mark Rosen
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Italian Renaissance art and cartography
Whitney Stewart
PhD, Rice University
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
American history, race & slavery, material culture
Charissa Terranova
PhD, Harvard University
Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Post-WWII art, architecture, and urbanism; media theory
Michael Thomas
PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Director, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
Richard R. Brettell Distinguished University Chair
Professor of Arts and Humanities
Etruscan and Roman art, architecture and archaeology
Affiliated Faculty of the O’Donnell Institute
Danielle Avram
MFA, Tufts University; MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Assistant Professor, Contemporary Galleries and Exhibitions
Director, SP/N Gallery, The University of Texas at Dallas
Charles Bambach
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
History of ideas, history of western philosophy
Natalia Angela Di Pietrantonio
PhD, Cornell University
Curator, The Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas
Decorative arts, modern & contemporary art, South Asian art, Indian Ocean, Asian art
Charles Hatfield
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Literature, Latin American literature and intellectual history, translation and translation studies
Dennis M. Kratz
PhD, Harvard University
Founding Director of the Center for Asian Studies; ; Senior Associate Provost; Ignacy and Celina Rockover Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
John Pomara
MFA, Texas A&M
Professor of visual arts, The University of Texas at Dallas
Visual arts, theoretical concerns of contemporary art and culture
Nils Roemer
PhD, Columbia University
Dean of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of the Arts, Humanities, and Technology (BAHT)
Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
Arts, Humanities and Technology Distinguished University Chair
Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor of Holocaust Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas
Lorraine Tady
Associate Professor in Visual Arts, The University of Texas at Dallas
Visual art, design, art theory, art and technology, curatorial exhibitions
Christine Veras
PhD, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Director, experimenta.l. animation lab
Experimental Animation; Animation Art Installation; History of Animation
Shilyh Warren
PhD, Duke University
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Film studies
Marilyn Waligore
MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor of visual arts, The University of Texas at Dallas
Photography
Amy Walker
PhD, University of Cambridge
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Materials Science & Engineering
Affiliated Scholars of the O’Donnell Institute
Ming Dong Gu
PhD, University of Chicago
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Dallas
Amy Lewis Hofland
Senior Director, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas
Benjamin Lima
PhD, Yale University
Editor, The Athenaeum Review
Modern and contemporary art
Roger Malina
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Arts and Technology Distinguished Chair, The University of Texas at Dallas
Bonnie Pitman
MA, Tulane University
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, The University of Texas at Dallas
Director of Art-Brain Innovations, Center for BrainHealth, The University of Texas at Dallas
Art and Medicine, museum studies, audience engagement
Michelle Rich
PhD, Southern Methodist University
The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Associate Curator of Indigenous American Art, The Dallas Museum of Art
Indigenous art of the Americas, Ancient Mesoamerican art and archaeology, Maya and Mesoamerican figurines
Norman Tennent
PhD, Glasgow University
Visiting Research Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas
Conservation Science Initiative