# About ## ABOUT ![about](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_28_10__1920x685/public/2024-11/abou2.jpg?itok=bNcMfn19) From its earliest beginning in 1874 as one of Harvard’s twelve divisions, the Department has expanded its variety of fields to comprise expertise that spans the globe and ranges from antiquity to contemporary art. Our Faculty supports cross-regional, transnational, and transcultural modes of analysis built around the principle of contact zones between cultures. Another priority of our Department concerns the material specificity of works of art across all media, as well as in the various processes and technologies of their production. In this we are well served by partnerships with the Harvard Art Museums, Fine Arts Library, Graduate School of Design, Houghton Library, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Visual and Environmental Studies, whose rich collections and facilities are an integral part of what we do in our innovative undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The History of Art and Architecture is an historical discipline that seeks to reintegrate the work of art or architecture into its original context of making and reception, foregrounding its status as both historical artifact and act of social communication. At the same time, the discipline also seeks to understand the ways in which cultural artifacts transcend the historical moment of their initial creation and consumption, taking on a wide range of meanings in later historical periods, including our own. Works of art and architecture are studied as physical manifestations of human imagination and creativity that shape and are shaped by the aesthetic, cultural, political, religious, social, and economic forces of a specific moment in human history, but we also think of them as living objects, the meanings of which develop and change over time. Over the 150 years of history of art and architecture at Harvard, generations of undergraduates and graduates have pursued studies in the Department, housed in the Fogg Museum of Art (1895-1984) and the Department building at 485 Broadway (1985 to the present day). While many have gone on to careers in the academy, museums, the arts and in criticism, others have continued to apply what they have learned at Harvard and to gain benefit from skills in visual and textual analysis, criticism, expanded powers of discernment, and the broad knowledge of human creativity. ## Department Administration [### Joseph Koerner ](/people/joseph-koerner) · Department Chair · Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture · Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures · Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows ![Professor Joseph Koerner's Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Koerner-Joseph-L.jpg?itok=XL0jPGuz) [### Felipe Pereda ](/people/felipe-pereda) · Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art ![Felipe Pereda portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/pereda.jpg?itok=Mz_o4pV5) [### Jennifer Roberts ](/people/jennifer-roberts) · Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities · American and Contemporary Art ![Professor Jennifer Roberts Portrait ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/jenniferroberts_photo.jpg?itok=7Ptb-VoK) [### Carrie Lambert-Beatty ](/people/carrie-lambert-beatty) · Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. · Contemporary Art ![lambert-beatty_bw](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/lambert-beatty_bw.png?itok=cn-UPyhY) ## Staff [### Emily Ware ](/people/emily-ware) Director of Administration and Operations ![Emily Ware](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/_NZF5182-5.jpg?itok=qmDnlFLv) [### Marcus Mayo ](/people/marcus-mayo) [marcus\_mayo@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:marcus_mayo@fas.harvard.edu)Undergraduate Program Coordinator ![Marcus Mayo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/2025-06-18%20006.jpg?itok=5pBucbpO) [### Hilary Field ](/people/hilary-field) [hilary\_field@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:hilary_field@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate Program Administrator Executive Assistant to the Chair ![HIlary Field](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/_NZF5045.jpg?itok=xWeqFZou) [### J.M. Gomez ](/people/jm-gomez-rojas) IT Support Associate ![harvard shield](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/person-default-image-big_01_0.png?itok=9HxQeV8F) ## Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture [### Gülru Necipoğlu ](/people/g%C3%BClru-necipo%C4%9Flu-leave-fall-2020-spring-2021)· Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture · Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard ![Professor Gulru Necipoglu](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/Home%20page%20photo%20GN-3.jpg?itok=ksb0IVKo) [### Cecily Pollard ](/people/cecily-pollard-0) Administrator of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture 485 Broadway 415 Cambridge, MA 02138 p: 617.495.2355 ![Cecily Pollard](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/_NZF5445-2.jpg?itok=ZZcPR9Qf) [### Karen A. Leal ](/people/karen-leal) Muqarnas Managing Editor p: 617.495.3774 ![person-default-image-big](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/person-default-image-big.png?itok=PgNohN4o) ## CAMLab [### Eugene Wang 汪悅進 ](/people/eugene-wang-%E6%B1%AA%E6%82%85%E9%80%B2-0) Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Director of CAMLab ![Professor Eugene Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/EugeneWangPhoto2024.12.jpg?itok=brXJQ-uX) [### Chenchen Lu ](/people/chenchen-lu-0) Associate Director, CAMLab ![Chenchen Lu Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Chenchen.png?itok=a0oh8vrI) [### Lorna Desiree Campos ](/people/lorna-desiree-campos) Financial & HR Manager ![lorna headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/lorna_profile_pic_1.jpg?itok=iRK7X1eR) ## Mapping Color in History [### Jinah Kim ](/people/jinah-kim-0) George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art and Professor of South Asian Studies ![Jinah Kim Profile](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/kim_bw.jpg?itok=VSj9HbUB) [### Tracy Stuber ](/people/tracy-stuber-0) MCH NEH Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow ![stuber headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/stuber_headshot-2_0_01.jpg?itok=9Qc4EDKk) ## **Contact Us** Harvard University 485 Broadway Levels 3,4 & 5 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.2377 [Contact Us](https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6PFo8dFmwpayvoV) ## Map & Floor Plan ### 3rd Floor expand\_more ![sackler_floorplan_3rd](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/history-artsarchitecture/files/sackler_floorplan_3rd.jpg) [ 3rd Floor arrow\_circle\_right ](/file_url/798) ### 4th Floor expand\_more ![sackler_floorplan_4th](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/history-artsarchitecture/files/sackler_floorplan_4th.jpg) [ 4th Floor arrow\_circle\_right ](/file_url/790) ### 5th Floor expand\_more ![sackler_floorplan_5th](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/history-artsarchitecture/files/sackler_floorplan_5th.jpg) [ 5th Floor arrow\_circle\_right ](/file_url/791)