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Agnes Berecz

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Ph.D. , Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006;

teaches modern and contemporary art history at Pratt

and the Department of Graduate Studies of the Fashion

Institute of Technology and at The Museum of Modern

Art; New York correspondent of the Budapest-based

art monthly, Müértö, currently writing a book about the

cultural politics of painting in postwar France; published

in Art in America, Artmargins, Praesens, Treca, and

European and U.S. exhibitions catalogs.

Sam Bryan

Adjunct Professor

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Howard University; DA,

Carnegie-Mellon; Sam Bryan is a filmmaker and film

archivist. He has taught courses in film history and

production at Brooklyn College, Fordham University

and at Pratt since 1983. Since 1960 he has filmed for

the International Film Foundation in Africa and South

America. His films have been shown at the American

Film Festival, at the Museum of Modern Art and the

Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s a past president of

the New York Film Council and continues as executive

director of the International Film Foundation.

Edward DeCarbo

Adjunct AssociAte Professor

Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown

University; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D.,

Indiana University; Ed DeCarbo has earned 2 degrees

in international relations and 2 others in anthropology

and African studies. His field research is in West Africa

with a focus on aesthetics, the place and practice of the

arts in everyday life.

Eva Diaz

AssistAnt Professor

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., and Ph.D.,

Princeton University; Eva Diaz is a Curator for Art in

General and has served as faculty for the Whitney

Museum Independent Study Program, Parsons New

School for Design, and Sarah Lawrence College. In

addition, she is a freelance critic of contemporary and

modern art for publications such as Art in America,

Time Out New York, and Modern Painters.

Mary Edwards

Adjunct Professor

B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University; M.L.S., Columbia

University; Mary Edwards grew up in Oklahoma and lives

in Manhattan. She studied at the Art Students League and

Columbia University. She received a Columbia University

Kress Fellowship for 1982–83; a National Endowment for

the Humanities Travel-to-Collections Grant for 1988; a

Gladys Krieble Delmas Grant for 2000; and travel grants

from Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and the School

of Visual Arts. She has been a fellow at the Virginia

Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the

Cummington Community of the Arts, the Mary Anderson

Center, and the Hambidge Center.

Diana Gisolfi

Professor

B.A., Manhattanville; M.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Yale, University

of Chicago; Gisolfi’s research and teaching focus is

on Italian Renaissance art, art historical methodology,

the context of the Catholic reform in Italy, and art by

women. She has published particularly on sixteenth

century Venetian and Veneto art, including that of

Veronese, Tintoretto, and Zelotti. Her current work

looks at materials and techniques of such artists in

relation to workshop practice. She lectures in national

and international venues and has reviewed books and

exhibitions. Gisolfi chaired the art history department

and is director of the Pratt in Venice Program.

Dimitri Hazzikostas

AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Athens University, Greece; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

University; Dimitri Hazzikostas is an art historian and

archaeologist. A member of the Hellenic Archaeological

Society, he participated in excavations at Ancient

Corinth, Troezen and Lechaion. His areas of special

interest include Greek, Roman, and early Medieval art,

iconography and interpretation. He is a Whiting Fellow

and received the Sears Distinguished Professor Award.

He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Comparative

Iconography. As a member of the Pratt Academic

Senate since its inception, he chaired the Senate’s

Programs and Policies Committee. Prof. Hazzikostas

also teaches in the Pratt-in-Venice program.

Frima Fox Hofrichter

Professor

Ph.D., Rutgers University; M.A., Hunter College; B.A.,

Brooklyn College; As a specialist in Art of the Early

Modern period, issues of gender and class have informed

Hofrichter’s writings and teaching. She is the author of a

monograph on Judith Leyster, numerous articles and has

curated several exhibitions. Besides graduate courses

in Dutch still-life painting and Vermeer, Hofrichter also

teaches undergraduate Survey. She is a co-author of the

major text, Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition.

Hofrichter is a member of the College Art Association’s

Committee on Women in the Arts.

History of Art and Design Faculty

Left: Class trip to The Museum of Modern Art, New York