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Faculty & Staff
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S. M. Can Bilsel, department chair |
| B.Arch METU; S.M.Arch.S. M.I.T.; Ph.D. in Architecture Princeton University |
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Can Bilsel’s recent scholarship engages the workings of the historiography of art and architecture. He is most interested in key moments when, thanks either to a major archaeological discovery or a rearrangement of an archive, the past becomes intelligible to modern viewers in a new way. His forthcoming book “Antiquity on Display: Techniques of the Authentic in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum” (Oxford University Press, 2010) seeks to contribute to historiography by interrogating the German reconstructions of Middle Eastern antiquities. By organizing his discussion of archaeological reconstructions around the theme of authenticity he intends to contribute to opening a public debate concerning the preservation of historic heritage. Bilsel’s most recent work on archaeology, modernism and nation building includes a long article, “Our Anatolia: Organicism and the Making of the Humanist Culture in Turkey,” published by Harvard University’s journal of Islamic art, Muqarnas (Brill, 2007). Bilsel has received numerous awards including the Aga Khan Fellowship at Harvard University and MIT, the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, and was a Getty Fellow in Los Angeles for two consecutive years in 2000-2002. In Summer 2007 he was invited as a visiting scholar to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
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office:F104 |
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619.260.7987 |
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cbilsel@sandiego.edu |
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John Halaka, Professor |
| B.A. City University with Brooklyn College; M.F.A. University of Houston |
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John Halaka’s art serves as a vehicle for extensive meditation on the issues that preoccupy him. The reoccurring concerns that have informed his work over the past two decades are: the frailty and resiliency of the human condition; the impermanence of the corporeal; the uncertainty of knowledge; cycles of repression and displacement; and a search for self-realization. His recent work explores issues of identity construction from personal, familial and political perspectives. A broad selection of Halaka’s art can be viewed on his web site.
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office: C46 |
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619.260.4107 |
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jhalaka@sandiego.edu |
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http://www.johnhalaka.com |
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Juliana Maxim, Assistant Professor Art History |
| B.A., M.A., B.Arch Laval University; Ph.D. in Architecture M.I.T. |
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Juliana Maxim is an art and architectural historian and an assistant professor in the Art Department at the University of San Diego. Her work centers on 20th century art, architecture and urbanism in Eastern Europe and on the relation between representation and political regimes, as well as on the question of "other" modernisms. Her PhD dissertation, titled The New, the Old, the Modern: Architecture and its Representation in Socialist Romania, 1955-1965 (MIT, 2006) examines how the architectural culture of postwar Romania sustained the regime¹s attempt to transform inhabitation and the city into a new collectivist environment.
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office: Camino 33B |
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619.260.7636 |
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jmaxim@sandiego.edu |
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Duncan McCosker, Professor |
| B.A. Occidental College; M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts; M.A. University of Southern California |
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As a documentary photographer Duncan McCosker has worked on projects in this country, Europe and Australia, exploring the public and private spaces of people engaged in leisure time activities. He was the recipient of the MacGeorge fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a University of San Diego Professorship, enabling him to photograph country and Royal Shows in Australia. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Chrysler Museum, Worcester Museum, Carpenter Center at Harvard University, and the Narodni National Museum in Prague. He has also participated in group exhibits at the National Museum of American Art, the Biennale de la Photographie (Liege, Belgium), and the Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik (Odense, Denmark).
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office: C121D |
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619.260.4108 |
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mccosker@sandiego.edu |
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Saba Oskoui, Associate Professor of Visual Arts |
| BFA and MFA, University of Oregon |
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Saba Oskoui studied art at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Oregon where she completed her BFA and MFA. She established the Visual Communications and the Computer Art studies at the University of San Diego. As a mixed media artist, she works with different media and approaches in her work. Saba Oskoui's work often explores issues of displacement and living between different cultures. She has worked on various art and design commissions, her work has been exhibited at one-person and group exhibitions.
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office: C121A |
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619.260.4103 |
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soskoui@sandiego.edu |
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Michael Rich, Assistant Professor |
| B.A. Bard College; M. F.A. San Fancisco State University |
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Fixated on the abject and transcendent, Michael Rich is a conceptually based multi-media artist working in video, sound, performance, intervetion, etc. He is internationally exhibited, etc. His work has been shown in venues including; the Pacific Film Archive, Exit Art, the San Francisco Zoo, etc. Recently he has participated in the Zeitgeist International Film Festival, Signal & Noise '04, Neighborhood Public/Pirate Radio, etc.
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office: C34 |
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619.260.2706 |
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rich@sandiego.edu |
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http://www.genericana.com
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Allison Wiese, Assistant Professor |
| B.A. Brown University, MFA University of California San Diego |
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Allison Wiese is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures, installations, sound works and architectural interventions. Her work celebrates improvisational authority, altering spaces through acts of labeling, christening or commemoration. Wiese’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Amongst other venues, her work has been presented by Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), DiverseWorks (Houston, TX), Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY) and apexart (New York, NY). In 2006 Wiese developed a site-specific solar audio work for the Edwards Garden Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Born and raised in Brooklyn, She is a 2006 Creative Capital Grantee, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 2001 to 2003. Wiese learned to walk and talk in Brooklyn, drive in southern California and everything else important in Texas.
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office: C47 |
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619.260.7990 |
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awiese@sandiego.edu |
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http://www.allisonwiese.info |
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Sally Yard, Art History Coordinator |
| B.A. Harvard University; M.F.A. Princeton University Ph. D. Princeton University |
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Yard has written extensively about art since the Second World War. Her work on the relationship of art and its publics includes the book Christo: Oceanfront (Princeton University Press), Sitings (Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1986), as well as essays in Robert Irwin (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Rizzoli, 1993) and Museum as Muse (Museum of Modern Art, New York and Abrams, 1999). She has also written on postwar painting: Francis Bacon: A Retrospective (The Trust for Museum Exhibitions and Abrams, 1999), Cy Twombly (C&M Arts, 1994), and Willem de Kooning (Poligrafa and Rizzoli, 1997). She has curated and co-curated an array of exhibitions, among them The Shadow of the Bomb (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1984); Garden Projects Giverny (Musée d’Art Americain, Giverny, France, 2000); inSite97: Public Space in Private Time (San Diego/Tijuana, 1997); and inSite2000: fugitive spaces (San Diego/Tijuana, 2000-01). Yard is curator of Conversations, inSite_05, and is at work on a book with Robert Irwin, as well as a series of essays on the paintings and drawings of Willem de Kooning.
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office: C33 |
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619.260.4512 |
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sallyyard2@aol.com |
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Adam Belt |
| B.A. University of San Diego, M.F.A. Clairmont Graduate University |
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office: C46 |
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abelt@SanDiego.edu |
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Lauren Buscemi, Lecturer |
| B.A. University of San Diego, M.A. San Diego State University |
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office: C16 |
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619.260.2624 |
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lbuscemi@sandiego.edu |
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Andrew Cross, Lecturer |
| B.F.A. Maine College of Art, M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute |
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office: C46 |
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landrew.cross@sandiego.edu |
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Danielle Michaelis Castillo, Lecturer |
| B.A. University of California Irvine; M.F.A. University of California San Diego, M.A. San Diego State University |
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Danielle Michaelis Castillo designs, and helps teachers implement,arts-based interdisciplinary curriculum in San Diego City and County Schools through CoTA (Collaboration of Teachers and Artists). She has also served as faculty member for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture's Neighborhood Arts Training Institute, designed to develop artists' potential for working in and with different communities. In 1999, she co-founded the Voices Project, a media arts program for youth based in Southeastern San Diego.
As a photographer, Michaelis Castillo has been documenting the old suburbs and rural spaces in California, photographing the landmarks and places that are in some ways a nostalgic remnant of the past, yet also address cultural ideals, appropriation, and the mythology of the “American West.” Many of the images look like abandoned Hollywood sets – believable and yet not quite genuine, beautiful yet desolate. Michaelis has exhibited her photography, video and installation work at various spaces including the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, and Hybrid Gallery.
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office: C16 |
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619.260.2624 |
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daniyelita@cox.net |
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Eva Friedberg, Lecturer |
| B.A. University California Berkeley , M.A. Visual Studies University California Irvine |
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Eva J. Friedberg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on the American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his urban plazas of the 1960s. Her research and teaching interests include everyday performance and art in public space, architecture history, urbanism, and the representation of the city in film.
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office: C16 |
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619.260.2624 |
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evajf@sandiego.edu |
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Bill Kelly, Lecturer |
| B.F.A. Ursinus College, M.F.A. Johnson State College |
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Bill Kelly is a painter and printmaker, as well as founder and codirector of Brighton Press in San Diego, California. Books and prints by Brighton Press and Bill Kelly are in major museums and library collections across the country and have been the subject of numerous exhibitions over the last eighteen years, including a recent show at the Oceanside Museum which will focus on his longstanding collaboration with nationally recognized poet Peter Everwine.
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office: C46 |
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wkelly@sandiego.edu |
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http://www.ebrightonarts.com |
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Bekkah Walker, Lecturer |
| B.A. Indiana University, M.F.A. University of California San Diego |
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office: C34 |
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619.260.2706 |
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bekkahwalker@SanDiego.edu |
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http://www.bekkahwalker.net |
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db smith, department chair |
| B. F. A. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; SMVisS MIT |
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Artist db smith was born in Toronto Canada in 1965, and graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1992 with a BFA in sculpture. In 1994, Smith was one of three artist invited to attend The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Graduate Program in Public Art, where he completed his SMVisS in 1997. Working in public space over the past decade, Smith has probed the complex intertwining of private experience and civic decorum, and has examined the intricate interconnectedness of the built and natural environments. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and Canada where he has completed both permanent and temporary public art projects. Smith served as the Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of San Diego, and the Chair of the Department of Art until August 2005. He is currently the President of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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Sarah Doherty, Lecturer |
| B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art and Design, M.F.A San Fransisco Art Institute |
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Paul Turounet, Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| B.A. San Jose State University; M.F.A. Yale University |
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Since graduating from the Yale University, Paul Turounet has been photographing and exhibiting along the Mexican-American border both in the United States and Mexico. The work, which explores the border as an allegorical space in the constructing of personal and cultural identity, includes color photographs, large-scale steel-plate photographs utilized in a public installation piece along the border wall in Tijuana, and video. In 1997-98, he was a Fulbright Fellowship scholar in Mexico and has received grants from the TransBorder Institute in support of the work. He has taught in the USD Guadalajara Summer Program since 2003. Since 2000, he has been an Instructor of Photography at the University of San Diego, where has taught Introduction to Photography, Color Photography, Documentary Photography, Critical Issues in Latin American Photography and Independent Study. Paul is currently a Professor at Grossmont Community College.
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Michael Mulno, Lecturer
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| B.F.A. Arizona State University; M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art and Design |
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Michael Mulno has a specific interest in portraiture, his working method involves the process of making pictures of people by the traditional means of an 8 x 10 in. view camera. Mulno‚s photographs have been exhibited in numerous national group shows and they have been the topic of several solo exhibitions. His photographs are represented locally by the Joseph Bellows Gallery, in La Jolla, CA.
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Lisa Sarkees, Lecturer |
| B.A. San Diego State University, Member of American Institute of Graphic Arts |
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Lisa has been a member of the San Diego design community for over ten years. In 1999, she entered a partnership establishing studio L, a boutique studio specializing in print communications. Lisa works with a variety of clients throughout Southern California, Nevada and Arizona and has been recognized nationally for her design accomplishments. Her work has been featured in HOW Design Books Powerful Page Design and has been honored multiple times by the League of American Communication Professionals for her creative editorial solutions.
In addition to her professional work, Lisa enjoys sharing her passion for design with students and has lectured at the University of San Diego and San Diego State University.
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Andrea Cutlip, Executive Assistant |
| B.A. Roanoke College, M.A. University of North Carolina Wilmington |
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office: Camino 33 |
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619.260.2280 |
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acutlip@sandiego.edu |
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Sebastian Allen, macintosh desktop support technician |
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office: C15 |
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619.260.2146 |
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sallen@sandiego.edu |
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JoeYorty, Studio Technician |
| B.A. University of San Diego |
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Joe loves making things and taking pictures. He is currently applying to MFA programs all over Southern California.
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office: Camino 45 |
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619.260.2704 |
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josephyorty@sandiego.edu |
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