Faculty at the O’Donnell Institute

O’Donnell Institute faculty form an intellectual community dedicated to collaboration and exchange.

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

Sarah K. Kozlowski
PhD, Yale University
Associate Director, 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
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

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

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

Charles Bambach
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
History of ideas, history of western philosophy

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

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

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 Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas, Dallas Museum of Art
Indigenous art of the Americas, Ancient Mesoamerican art and archaeology, Maya and Mesoamerican figurines

Maximilian Schich
PhD, Humboldt University, Berlin
Research Professor of Cultural Data Analytics (ERA Chair), Tallinn University

Norman Tennent
PhD, Glasgow University
Visiting Research Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas
Conservation Science Initiative