Claudia Mesch writes on developments in 20th-century and contemporary art. Her publications examine modern art's cultural exchanges across national, disciplinary, and other borders, as well as modern art's engagement with politics and with games and game structure.
Art History
Dr. Meredith Hoy is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Media Theory (Art History) and Intermedia/Expanded Arts (Studio Practice) in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2010 in the Department of Rhetoric.
Haines is a historian of global modern and contemporary art and architecture who writes on histories and theories of museums, exhibitions, and the politics of display, with a specialization in Israel/Palestine. At ASU, she incorporates into her research and teaching critical studies of citizenship, comparative borderlands, and material and ideological imaginings of land, landscape, and environment in modern and contemporary art. Her current book project explores the role of art exhibitions in Israeli nation-building from the 1940s to the 1960s.
A specialist in Euro-North American art history, Professor Fahlman's research spans the late nineteenth century to 1945. She has strong interests in women artists, American modernism (including the history of photography), the relationships between American Art and industry, and the art history of the American Southwest (including Arizona).
Deyasi has taught art history for almost 20 years at several universities across the US and Canada. Prior to joining ASU, he was Visiting Professor of Global, Non-Western and Postcolonial art history at Concordia University in Montreal. Deyasi has also taught at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Macalester College and the University of Idaho. His research interests center on modern art and its relationship to colonialism, especially French colonialism in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Codell is professor of art history at Arizona State University. She was director of the School of Art from 1991-2001 and interim chair of Film and Media Studies from 2010-11. She is currently a senior consultant to the School of Art Director and a faculty affiliate in English, Film and Media Studies and the Asian Research Center.
Brown joined the art history faculty at the School of Art in 1998. Recently, she served a four-year term as director of the ASU Center for Asian Studies.
Her research and teaching interests lie in later Chinese painting and decorative arts, museums and exhibitions. She has lectured in China, India, Korea and Taiwan. Her book, "Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911," was published by the University of Washington Press in 2014. She is currently working on a book on the arts of the Qing dynasty.
Bowyer's areas of research interest include comic dysmorphic terracotta figurines produced at Athens and Corinth during the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods. Her future research goals include the investigation of pigments used by coroplasts on comic dysmorphic terracotta figurines in Achaia Korinthos and completing a multimedia e-book for Art Appreciation students that investigates the analogous nature of art production techniques globally.
Education
ABD, PhD, Design, Environment and the Arts, Arizona State University
Afanador-Pujol specializes in the art, material culture and architecture of the Indigenous people of Ancient and Colonial Latin America. Professor Afanador-Pujol’s research interests include indigenous agency and the social function of art as it intersects with race and ethnic relations, justice, political interests, and consumption in early sixteenth-century Mexico.
Professor Afanador-Pujol is the academic director of the ASU-LACMA fellowship in Art History which pairs academic instruction and on-the-job work experience.