2025-2026 Catalog

Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Mary Beth Heffernan, chair; designated transfer adviser 

Professor

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

Janna Ireland

Assistant Professor

B.F.A., New York University; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

 

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

Amy Lyford

Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas

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

Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III

Assistant Professor

B.F.A., Otis College of Art and Design; M.F.A., University of Southern California

 

Summer Sloane-Britt
Assistant Professor
B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Yurika Wakamatsu

Associate Professor

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

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Tiffany Barber
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A. Fordham University/The Ailey School; M.P.A.S. University of California Roski School of Fine Arts; Ph.D. University of Rochester

Roksana Pirouzmand
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles

 
Camilla Taylor
Resident Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach

Stephen van Dyck

Visiting Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

David Weldzius
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

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

Other faculty associated with the Art and Art History department can be viewed here.