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 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (1880-1938). Ski Jumpers, after ca. 1919. Watercolor, ink & graphite on paper, 12 7/16" x 10". Gift of S.J. Levin, The Peabody College Collection, Vanderbilt University [1979.0634P].
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Faculty
and Faculty Research Interests
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The History of Art faculty at Vanderbilt is dedicated to the highest standards of teaching and research. Our pedagogical mission is to instill a love of learning that will stay with students for a lifetime, through our own passion for the classroom experience. In terms of research, we are dedicated to participating at the highest level in the formation of the discourse in our various areas of research and publication. The faculty of the Department are listed below.
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Jay Bloom (Dartmouth, B.A.; Duke, Ph.D.) specializes in the visual culture of early modern Northern Europe (1400-1700), with a particular emphasis on the reception histories of individual visual media, on the cultural constructions of value, and on historiography. His current research focuses on the historical processes by which painting emerged as the most privileged artistic medium within sixteenth-century Netherlandish visual culture, and he is initiating a consideration of play as an epistemological template for the study of early modern Netherlandish art.
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Susan H. Edwards (Graduate Center of the CUNY, Ph.D.) is Executive Director and CEO of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. She also originates exhibitions, publishes, and lectures in the areas of modern and contemporary art and photography. She is the author of Ben Shahn and the Task of Photography in Thirties America, as well as articles that have appeared in The History of Photography and The Print Collectors' Newsletter. She serves on the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee and is an advisor for the Stephen Taller Archive at Harvard University.
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Leonard Folgarait (University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D.) is a specialist in the art of Latin America and in European and American modernism. He is the author of So Far from Heaven: David Alfaro Siqueiros' The March of Humanity and Mexican Revolutionary Politics, and Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order. His articles have been published in Arts Magazine, Oxford Art Journal, and Art History. He is currently on leave.
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Vivien Green Fryd (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D.) teaches courses in American art, contemporary art, American studies, gender studies, and methods. She published Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860 and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper. She has also published articles in The American Art Journal, American Art, The Winterthur Portfolio, and various edited books, most notably Critical Issues in American Art, edited by Mary Ann Calo, and Critical Issues in Public Art, edited by Harriet Senie and Sally Webster. She is currently writing a book manuscript entitled, "Rape: Imaging and Imagining Sexual Violence in American Art." 
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Christopher M.S. Johns (Florida State University, B.A.; University of Delaware, M.A., Ph.D.) chairs the department and teaches courses which examine the visual culture of western Europe from the late Baroque through Romanticism. Special attention is paid to issues of patronage, the relation between art and politics, social class, and gender. He is chair of the department and author of Papal Art and Cultural Politics: Rome in the Age of Clement XI (1993) and Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe (1998), as well as numerous articles.
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Jinah Kim (University of California, Berkeley, M.A., Ph.D.) specializes in the art of South and Southeast Asia. Her research interests range from exploring the relationship between text and image, to understanding the pragmatic meaning and function of religious objects in different contexts, investigating female representations and patronage in South Asia, and searching for a new critical framework for the interpretation of the multivalent and the issues of re-appropriation of “art” objects from South and Southeast Asia. She is currently working on a book that discusses the text-image relationship in Buddhist manuscripts from South Asia and the archaeology of the book-cult.
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Tracy Miller (University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Ph.D.) teaches the history of art and architecture in East Asia, with a special emphasis on the ritual and garden architecture of China and Japan. Her research focuses on the ways in which the architecture and sculpture of China from the Tang through the Ming dynasties (618-1644 C.E.) can help us understand the local societies that produced them. Her articles include "Water Sprites and Ancestor Spirits: Reading the Architecture of Jinci," in The Art Bulletin. Her forthcoming book, The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci, explores the significance of temple architecture in forming a perception of divinity identity and divine presence in the rural landscape of north China.
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Robert Mode (University of Rochester, B.A.; University of Michigan, M.A., Ph.D.), director of undergraduate studies, specializes in Italian Renaissance and British art. He is working on Hogarth's The Enraged Musician, as well as the Raphaelites--a study of the "Raphael paradigm" in early modern art theory and practice. His publications appear in Art Bulletin and Burlington Magazine. He also pursues public art issues with the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy.
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Elizabeth Moodey (Tufts, B.A.; University of Delaware, M.A.; Princeton, M.A., Ph.D.) teaches the history of manuscript culture and the art of medieval Europe, with an emphasis on materials and technique, questions of patronage, and images of rulers. Her book, Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy [forthcoming], examines visual and literary projects at the court of Burgundy before and after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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Sheri F. Shaneyfelt (Centre College, B.S.; Vanderbilt University, M.A.; Indiana University at Bloomington, Ph.D.) specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art. Her research has been published recently in the Burlington Magazine and in Studying and Conserving Paintings, a joint publication of the Kress Foundation and the Institute for Fine Arts Conservation Center at NYU. Her current area of study is Renaissance Umbria, and the artistic culture of Perugia circa 1490.
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Barbara Tsakirgis (Yale University, B.A.; Princeton University, M.A., Ph.D.) is a classical archaeologist currently working on the American excavations in ancient Athens. Her research involves ancient Greek architecture and culture, especially domestic architecture and issues regarding social life. Her books include The Nashville Athena and Morgantina Studies, which is a result of her long-term work at the American excavations at Morgantina, Sicily. She is chair of the Department of Classical Studies.
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 Goswyn van der Weyden, Flemish (1465-1538). Madonna and Child with St. Anne. Oil on panel, 19" x 12 3/4". The Samuel H. Kress Collection, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University [1979.0658P].
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Thomas B. Brumbaugh (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio State) is co-editor (with Martha I. Strayhorn and Gary G. Gore) of Architecture of Middle Tennessee: The Historic American Buildings Survey (Vanderbilt University Press, 1974) and co-author (with Andrew Ladis and Patricia Phagan) of The Art of Gerald Brockhurst (Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1993).
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Hamilton Hazlehurst (Princeton University, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is author of Jacques Boyceau and the French Formal Garden (University of Georgia Press, 1966), Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of André Le Nostre (Vanderbilt University Press, 1980, 1994; French-language edition, 2005), and co-editor (with Elisabeth B. MacDougall) of The French Formal Garden (Dumbarton Oaks, 1974). Gardens of Illusion received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, given by the Society of Architectural Historians to "the most distinguished book of scholarship in the history of architecture between November 1979 and October 1981." On July 13, 2006, Hazlehurst was made an Officier in L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, for significant contributions "to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance."
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Milan Mihal (Ohio University, B.S.Ed., M.S.Ed.; University of Michigan, Ph.D.) is the author of Sakai Hōitsu: A Catalogue Raisonné of Selected Works and other articles on Japanese woodblock prints and the Rimpa School of painting. He served as director of the East Asian Studies Program and as director of undergraduate studies.
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Ljubica D. Popovich (University of Belgrade, Diploma; Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D.) is a specialist in Byzantine, Slavic, Early Christian, and Western Mediaeval art. Her research focuses on the images of the Prophets and their textual messages represented in the drums of Byzantine churches. Her articles have been included in Zoögraf, Cyrillomethodianum, Serbian Studies, Recueil de Chilandar, and other publications. Her interests include American political cartoons dealing with the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian War.
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