School of Humanities and Sciences
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Usha Iyer
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFilm studies, South Asia, Caribbean, Gender, Diaspora, Race and ethnicity
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Srdan Keca
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
BioSrdan Keca's films A LETTER TO DAD, MIRAGE and ESCAPE screened at leading documentary film festivals, including IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Jihlava IDFF and Full Frame, while his video installations have been exhibited at venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Whitechapel Gallery.
The found-footage film FLOTEL EUROPA, produced and edited by Keca, premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, winning the Tagesspiegel Jury Prize. His upcoming feature documentary MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION (in postproduction) centers around a community living inside the remnants of one of the most ambitious, and never completed, architectural projects of socialist Yugoslavia. It is supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Fund, the MEDIA Fund of the European Commission, and Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, among others. His project THAT SOUND HIGH IN THE AIR (in development) follows a group of scientists studying climate history and the great migrations of the past in one of the remotest and least explored parts of the Sahara. It was pitched at CPH:FORUM in 2020.
Keca is a graduate of the Ateliers Varan and the UK National Film and Television School (NFTS). Since 2015 he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the MFA Documentary Film Program. -
Jan Krawitz
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita
BioJan Krawitz has been independently producing documentary films for many years. Her work has been exhibited at film festivals in the United States and abroad, including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Edinburgh, SilverDocs, London, Sydney, Full Frame, South by Southwest and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her most recent film, Perfect Strangers, is a documentary that follows Ellie, a woman who embarks on an unpredictable, four-year journey of twists and turns, determined to give away one of her kidneys. The film was broadcast on the national PBS series, America ReFramed. Krawitz’s previous documentary, Big Enough, was broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. and internationally in eighteen countries. Her films, Mirror Mirror, In Harm’s Way, Little People, and Drive-in Blues were all broadcast on national PBS and her short film Styx is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Little People was nominated for a national Emmy Award and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Krawitz has had one-woman retrospectives of her films at venues including the Portland Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Rice Media Center, the Austin Film Society, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2011, she was awarded an artist’s residency at Yaddo. Krawitz is a Professor at Stanford University in the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film and Video.
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Marci Kwon
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
On Leave from 10/01/2020 To 06/30/2021BioMarci Kwon specializes in art and culture of the United States. Her research and teaching interests include the intersection of fine art and vernacular practice, theories of modernism, cultural exchange between Asia and the Americas, "folk" and "self-taught" art, and issues of race and objecthood. Her current book project considers the work of Joseph Cornell and the desire for a populist art in the mid-century United States. She is also working on a study of the intersections of art and anthropology in American modernism.
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Pavle Levi
Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts
BioPavle Levi is Associate Professor in the Art Department's Film and Media Studies Program.
He is also Faculty Director of Stanford's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES).
Prof. Levi's primary areas of research and teaching include: European cinema (emphasis on Eastern Europe), aesthetics and ideology, film and media theory, experimental cinema, intersections of theory and practice.
He is the recipient of the 2011 Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. -
Emanuele Lugli
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
BioEmanuele Lugli teaches and writes about late medieval and early modern art, with a particular emphasis on Italian painting, trade, urban culture, and the history of fashion. His theoretical concerns include questions of scale and labor, the history of measurements and technology, conceptualizations of precision, vagueness, smallness, and the reach of intellectual networks.
Emanuele has written two monographs. The first, Unità di Misura: Breve Storia del Metro in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014), reconstructs the revolution triggered by the introduction of the metric system in nineteenth-century Italy. The second, The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), is a quest for the foundations of objectivity through an analysis of the ways measurements standards were made, displayed, used, and imagined between the twelfth and the seventeenth century. A third book, a study of hair and the corporeal minuscule in founding notions of vitality, beauty, and desire in Renaissance Florence, is underway. Emanuele has also edited with Professor Joan J. Kee (University of Michigan) a collection of essays on the roles of size in artmaking titled To Scale (Hoboken, Wiley-Blackwell: 2015).
Besides his academic essays, Emanuele has also written for newspapers such as The Guardian, architectural magazines like Abitare, and Vogue Italia. -
Michael Marrinan
Professor of Art and Art History, Emeritus
BioAreas of Specialization:
European Art - 17th through 19th Centuries -
Jamie Meltzer
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
BioJamie Meltzer’s documentary films include: Off the Charts: the Song-Poem Story, about the shadowy world of song-poems, Welcome to Nollywood, an investigation into the wildly successful Nigerian movie industry, La Caminata, about a small town in Mexico that puts on a simulated border crossing as a tourist attraction, and Informant, about a revolutionary activist turned FBI informant.
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Richard Meyer
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History
BioAreas of Specialization:
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Perla Garcia Miranda
Student Svcs Offcr 2, Art & Art History
BioPerla Miranda, Student Services Manager
Perla received her B.A. in Politics and Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are in indigenous language revitalization, with a particular focus on Valley Zapotec from Oaxaca, Mexico. Before joining the Department of Art & Art History, Perla has been program manager at the Santa Cruz headquarters of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, graduate program coordinator for the sociology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduate program coordinator for the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Academic and Student Services Administrator at Stanford's Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). In all these roles, she has used her own experience as a first-generation college graduate to help students navigate academic systems and advise a diverse student population. Currently, she is developing a Zapotec Master-Apprentice Language Learning plan in her hometown of San José, California. In her free time, Perla enjoys watching movies, going to concerts and music festivals, traveling, and playing rummikub. -
Alexander Nemerov
Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of English
BioA scholar of American art, Nemerov writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past, and the importance of the humanities in our lives today. Committed to teaching the history of art more broadly as well as topics in American visual culture--the history of American photography, for example--he is a noted writer and speaker on the arts. His most recent books are To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (2011), the catalogue to the exhibition of the same title he curated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War (2010). His new book, Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s, will be published by Princeton University Press this fall.
