Faculty

Regular Faculty

Amy Lyford, chair

Professor

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Linda Besemer

James Irvine Distinguished Professor

B.A., B.F.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., Tyler School of Art

Mary Beth Heffernan

Professor

B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995 

Linda Lyke

Professor

B.A., M.F.A., Kent State University 

Yurika Wakamatsu

Assistant Professor

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

On Special Appointment 

Kenturah Davis
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., Yale University

William Davis
Non-Tenure Track Instructor
B.A., University of the West of England, Bristol School of Art and Design; M.A., Lund University

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Mellon Professor of the Practice
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 

Dustin Nolan Gray Delaney
Mellon Professor of the Practice

Kenji Liu
Non-Tenure Track Instructor
B.A., John F. Kennedy University; M.A., California Institute of Integral Studies

Samuel Luterbacher
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Geneva, Switzerland; M.A.,Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Ph.D., Yale University

Susanna Maing
Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Jocelyn Webb Pedersen
Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 

Stephanie Schrader
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Sami Siegelbaum
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Camilla Taylor
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach

David Weldzius
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Patricia Yossen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani; M.F.A., Pratt Institute