The Institute of Fine Arts Faculty

NYU Affiliated Faculty

Miriam Basilio

Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU

Mosette Broderick

Clinical Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, NYU

Joan Breton Connelly

Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, NYU Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School, Cyprus

Jordana Mendelson

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU

Ara H. Merjian

Professor of Italian Studies, Arts and Science, NYU

Jon Ritter

Clinical Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, NYU

Ann Macy Roth

Clinical Professor, Art History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies, Department of Art HIstory, NYU

Lillian Tseng

Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Deborah Willis

University Professor, Photography & Imaging and Social & Cultural Analysis, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Christopher Wood

Professor, German Department; Chair, Humanities Chairs, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU

Contributing Faculty and Collaborating Scholars

Jennifer Ball
Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Kim Benzel
Curator in Charge, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monika Bincsik
Diane and Arthur Abbey Assistant Curator of Japanese Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

John T. Carpenter
Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Blair Fowlkes Childs
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts

Francesca Ferrari
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts

Juliet Fleming
Associate Professor of English, NYU

Marc LeBlanc
Associate Director, Academic Affairs, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Mark McDonald
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts; Curator, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, and early French prints and illustrated books, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Patricia Norby
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts (as of Spring 2025); Associate Curator of Native American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nadine M. Orenstein
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts; Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michael Seymour
Assistant Curator, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Freyda Spira
Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at Yale University Art Gallery

Linda Wolk-Simon
Frank and Clara Meditz Director and Chief Curator, Fairfield University Art Museum

Institute of Fine Arts Research Associates

Beryl Barr-Sharrar
Research Affiliate in Greek and Roman Art

Paul Stanwick
Research Affiliate in Egyptian Art

The Institute of Fine Arts Excavation Field Directors

Laurel Bestock
Associate Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology, Brown University; Executive Director of Excavations at Abydos, Egypt and Visiting Research Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Kathryn Howley
Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art; Field Director, Excavations at Sanam in Sudan

Clemente Marconi
James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor; Project Director, IFA Excavations at Selinunte, Italy

Roland R. R. Smith
Emeritus Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford; Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias

Bonna D. Wescoat
Professor of Art History, Emory University; Director, Excavations in Samothrace

Foreign Language Instructors

Uwe Bergermann
Teacher of German Reading Comprehension since 2000

Rosalia Pumo
Teacher of Italian Language Comprehensive since 2009

Heidi Ziegler
Teacher of French and German Reading Comprehension since 2000