Art History Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: mackenzie@grinnell.edu
Michael “Mac” Mackenzie is professor of art history at ƽ. Prior to his arrival at ƽ, 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 ƽ, 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...
Lecturer
Email: critesda@grinnell.edu
As a lecturer in art history at ƽ, I get to introduce students to the fascinating fields of medieval and Renaissance art from Europe and the greater Mediterranean. Though I love the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, and the Sistine Chapel, I am particularly interested in art that...
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 ƽ, 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...
Associate Professor
Email: riveraal@grinnell.edu
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera ‘06 is Assistant Professor of Art History at ƽ, 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 ƽ, 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...