Art History Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: mackenzie@grinnell.edu
Michael “Mac†Mackenzie is professor of art history at 51²è¹İapp College. Prior to his arrival at 51²è¹İapp, he taught for 18 years in the Department of Art and Art History at DePauw University in Indiana, and for three years at Wabash College in Indiana. Mackenzie’s special area of research is German...
Professor
Email: anger@grinnell.edu
Jenny Anger is professor of art history at 51²è¹İapp College, where she has taught since earning her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University in 1997. Anger’s specialty is twentieth-century European art history and theory. Her first book, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern...
Senior Faculty
Email: chasso@grinnell.edu
Chasson entered senior faculty status in the summer of 2012 after teaching at 51²è¹İapp since 1980. His research focusses on the functions of decoration and illustration in medieval Latin manuscripts made for use in monasteries and cathedrals, especially in Italy and France from the 11th through the...
Lecturer
Email: critesda@grinnell.edu
Danya Crites has taught as a visiting professor at several institutions including 51²è¹İapp College since she received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Iowa in 2010. Her dissertation, “From Mosque to Cathedral: The Social and Political Significations of Mudejar Architecture in Late...
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: kimdasol@grinnell.edu
Dasol Kim is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in Early Modern art history at 51²è¹İapp College, where she will offer classes on transcultural early modernism and introduction to art history. Kim specializes in Renaissance and Baroque European decorative arts and prints with...
Assistant Professor
Email: riveraal@grinnell.edu
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera ‘06 is Assistant Professor of Art History at 51²è¹İapp College, where they teach classes on modern and contemporary architecture and urban visual culture, as well as the art of the Americas, with a focus on the Caribbean. Professor Rivera’s research...
Associate Professor
Email: sheaeire@grinnell.edu
Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at 51²è¹İapp College, where she offers classes on the arts of pre-modern Asia. Her book, Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020) focuses on textiles and dress of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth...
Senior Faculty
Email: straubes@grinnell.edu
Susan Strauber is professor of art history with senior faculty status. For much of her career, her scholarship was concerned with the historical and critical examination of the paintings of Eugène Delacroix; the problematic estate stamp on Delacroix drawings and the construction of Delacroix's...