Art History Lecturers and Visiting Scholars

Overview

Lecturers and Visiting Faculty

Faculty Profile

Yipaer Aierken
Lecturer

Ph.D., Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Arizona State University, 2023
M.A., Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Arizona State University, 2019

Lectures

Asian Art Survey (AHI 1D)

Arts of Japan (AHI 164)

Layne Little
Faculty Profile

Layne Little
Lecturer

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of Utah

Bio

Field of interest: Pre-Gupta Vaisnava iconography and numismatics in South and Southeast Asia; Buddhist survivals in Tamil Siddha tradition; the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism in American popular literature from 1880 to 1968.

Lectures

The Hindu Temple (AHI 154)

Buddhist Art (AHI 157)

Popular Religious Art in India (AHI 158)

Room 913, Sproul Hall
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Faculty Profile

Matthew Looper
Lecturer

Ph.D., Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Bio

Field of interest: Ancient Mesoamerica. Matthew Looper heads the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. He has published many books and articles on Ancient Maya art and epigraphy, as well as contemporary Maya textiles.

Lectures

Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa (AHI 150)

Arts of Ancient New World (AHI 151)

mglooper[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
Lindsay Riordan
Faculty Profile

Lindsay Riordan
Lecturer

Ph.D., Yale University (in progress)
M.A., University of California, Davis & Yale University
B.A., University of California, Davis

Lectures

Medieval & Renaissance Art (AHI 1B)

Landscape, Nature & Art (AHI 130)

Art of the Middle Ages: Early Christian & Byzantine Art (AHI 176A)

Art of the Middle Ages: Gothic (AHI 176C)

Avant-Gardism and Its Aftermath (AHI 185)

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