Art History Faculty

Chair
Michael Mackenzie
Professor
Michael “Mac” Mackenzie is professor of art history at Grinnell College. Prior to his arrival at Grinnell, 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...
Jenny Anger
Professor
Jenny Anger is professor of art history at Grinnell 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...
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Lecturer

Director, Museum of Art

Senior Faculty
Chasson entered senior faculty status in the summer of 2012 after teaching at Grinnell 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...
Danya Crites
Lecturer
Danya Crites has taught as a visiting professor at several institutions including Grinnell 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...
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Assistant Professor
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera ‘06 is Assistant Professor of Art History at Grinnell 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...
Eiren Shea
Associate Professor
Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at Grinnell 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...
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Senior Faculty
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...

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