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Lauren Buscemi has been teaching Art History at the University of San Diego since 2005. Currently she teaches Art and Visual Culture focusing on modern and contemporary art. In January 2011 Buscemi taught in Barcelona on ‘Barcelona and Modernity’ through the University of San Diego’s international exchange program.

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Derrick Cartwright, PhD, taught art history full-time at USD from 1992-1998.  He then directed the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny in France (1998-2001), the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (2001-2004), and the San Diego Museum of Art (2004- present).  He still enjoys working with undergraduates at USD, especially in interdisciplinary investigations of visual art and culture.

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Adriana Cuéllar ­is principal of CRO studio with her partner Marcel Sanchez, an architectural design practice with experimental urban research projects. She received her Bachelor of Architectur­e from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and holds a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she won the Annual Award for Excellence in Housing Design for the architectural and urban proposals for Huixquilucan, México. She received the 2006-2007 Rome Prize Fellowship in Design by the American Academy in Rome, where she pursued her interest on the trajectory with her partner, and developed methodologies of sequential mapping that unveil textures of change and erosion in urban fabrics.

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Eva J. Friedberg received her PhD in the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has been working in the department of Art as an Art History lecturer since 2006. Her course offerings include Introduction to Modern Architecture, The Art and Architecture of Los Angeles, and The City and Utopia. Her current research focuses on postwar American architecture and urbanism, the counterculture, avant-garde art and performance of the 1960s, and landscape.

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Victoria Sancho Lobis was appointed in 2009 as the inaugural curator of University of San Diego’s print collection and fine arts galleries. She is currently working to develop USD’s exhibition program, build the print collection, and develop strategies to encourage student and faculty involvement with the print collection and art exhibitions. Her research interests include old master prints and drawings, artistic training, and the history of collecting.

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John Marciari, PhD, became the curator of Italian and Spanish Painting and the head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2008. He was previously the Nina & Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Marciari’s work focuses particularly on aspects of artistic practice in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

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Carol McCusker, PhD, curated more than thirty exhibitions in her eight years as Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. These include "First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot" and "The Birth of Photography, American Noir: The Photographs of James Fee", "The Roads Most Traveled: Migration Photographs by Don Bartletti," and "Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone." Such diverse curating, from the first photographs to cameraphone technology, reveals McCusker’s enthusiasm for photography’s range, from its earliest manifestations as a seemingly objective record to contemporary themes that expand our understanding the complex world around us.

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Danielle Michaelis-Castillo currently teaches Art Fundamentals for Liberal Studies majors. She also serves as a lead artist at the non-profit organization CoTA (Collaborations: Teacher and Artists), providing professional development in arts integration for elementary school teachers in San Diego County Schools. Her scholarly and creative work focus on the intersection between community art and its therapeutic value for underserved youth.

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Whitney Moon is a licensed architect in California, who is currently working on her PhD in architectural history and theory at UCLA. She joined the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at USD as an architectural lecturer in Fall 2010.

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Robert Pincus, PhD, has been a lecturer at USD since 1998. His course “Art Now: Critical Thinking About Art” focuses on art history since 1960, with discussion and writings on notable exhibitions at museums and galleries. This seminar, which combines readings in art criticism and theory with student writings on notable local exhibitions, is rooted in his extensive experience as an art critic.

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Ariel Plotek is an Assistant Curator at the San Diego Museum of Art. His main field of expertise is Modern European art, particularly French art of the 19^th century. At the San Diego Museum of Art, Dr. Plotek has organized a wide variety of loan exhibitions and focused presentations of the permanent collection, from photojournalism to plein air painting. Notably, he was the curator of Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris: Selections from the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection at the San Diego Museum of Art. He has taught seminars at USD on 20^th century Art as well as the history of Realism.

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Iana Quesnell has been a member of the faculty since 2008. Quesnell teaches Foundations and Form, a sculpture class in the undergraduate Visual Arts department.

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Bekkah Walker is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department where she specializes in topics within the genre of New Media. Her courses have included Introduction to New Media, Video Art, Special Topics in Design and Installation Art. Her research explores the relationship between the Californian landscape and its human inhabitants. This research undergoes subjective filtration where the analysis is translated into sound sculptures, installations, interventions, drawings and video.

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