Liberal Arts

David Hart

Title Associate Professor of Art History, Liberal Arts Department
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7302

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Courses  An Introduction to African Art | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Installation | Race and Representation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Political Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Hart is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Liberal Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He taught African-American Art at UNC Chapel Hill as well as Wake Forest University before he came to the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Diane Lichtenstein

Title Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7362

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Courses  Anthropology | Human Antiquity

Degree PhD, University of Wisconsin; MA, University of Wisconsin; BA, Anthropology with a minor in African Studies and French from Indiana University

Diane Lichtenstein MA and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art. She teaches cultural anthropology and other area studies courses, including traditional art of non-western cultures. She has conducted anthropological and archaeological fieldwork in east Africa, Pakistan, Egypt and India. She maintains a long-term research interest in South Asian prehistory and has co-authored several articles focusing on archaeological details of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization. She has taken CIA students to India on five archaeological fieldtrips for excavations at a prehistoric site in South India.

Courses  Censorship, Art, & the Law

Courses  Culture/Conflict/Syncretism in African & African-American Literature | Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions | Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms

Degree PhD, The Indirect Narrative Method in the Last Six Novels of Geroge Mereditn, 1828-1909, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; BA, English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Olatubosun`s research interests lie in literature in English, particularly comparative studies in African, English, American and African-American literatures within the contexts of theories of fiction and literary discourse. His work is widely published and can be found in English Studies in Africa, NEOHELICON and Proceedings.

Courses  Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry II: Research and Intellectual Traditions

Gary D Sampson

Title Professor of Art+Design History
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7369

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Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 1945-Present | Issues in Design: Theory & Culture of Design | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Installation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, Art and Art History, California State University, Northridge

Gary Sampson teaches art and design history and theory at the Institute. He is also adjunct in art history and occasional SAGES faculty at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of scholarship are in history of photography, urban design and representation, and media arts and visual culture. His publications include Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography, with Eleanor Hight, Photographs at St. Lawrence University, with Catherine Tedford, and “Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City," in Emerging Landscapes: Between Landscape and Representation (forthcoming from Ashgate Press). Prof Sampson also engages in practice-based research in photography and video; one of his ongoing projects investigates city environments, infrastructure, and media.

Courses  Digital Color

Daniel Tranberg

Title Visiting Instructor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7000

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Courses  Art of the Personal Essay | Painting Seminar: Contemp Issues in Ptg | Writing and Inquiry I: Basic Composition and Contemporary Ideas | Writing and Inquiry III: Narrative Forms

Degree MA in Studio Art from Purdue University. Also studied Criticism and Theory in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, Chicago. BFA, Northern Illinois University

Dan Tranberg has published more than 750 articles on art and has exhibited his paintings in more that 40 exhibitions. His writing has appeared in national and international publications, including Art in America, NY Arts, artUS, BOMB, Glass Magazine, and Art on Paper. He was awarded an Ohio Excellence in Journalism award in 2004 and received Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in 2002 and 2007.