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Byzantine and East Christian arts; Coptic art; Mediterranean studies; the Global Middle Ages
Art and decolonization, race and space, placekeeping, cultural geography, critical pedagogy, environmental racism, interdisciplinary methodologies, narrative and research, cartography, critical and comparative Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Studies
Pre-Columbian art and archaeology; cultural heritage; conservation; collecting histories; cultural landscapes; culture contact; frontiers; metalworking and ancient technology; craft production.
Modern architecture and urbanism; Cultural landscape of colonialism; British empire; Postcolonial and critical theory.
Art of North America, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; landscape and ecologies; sculpture, decorative arts, and material culture; photography; theories of value and exchange; decolonial and critical theory
Islamic architecture and urbanism, 7th - 9th centuries and 17th century; medieval Islamic Iconography; modern art of the Arab world; critiques of the field.
Arts of the Iberian world, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; interactions of art and science; early modern antiquarianism; early modern art theory; histories of record-keeping and evidence-handling technologies; historiographies of art.
Northern European Art, 15th - 17th century; Kunst- and Wunderkammern; History of Museums and Collecting; Early-Modern Spectacle.
Roman Republican sanctuaries; altars; ancient rituals; cults and burial practices.
African and African Diaspora Arts and Visual Culture; Contemporary Art; Cultural Patrimony Research, and Critical Theory.
17th- and 18th-century art and architecture in Italy; history of collecting and museums.
Contemporary art; Japanese art (1868 to present); Global Surrealism; Museum Studies.
- Arts 1626 (AD&A Museum office)
- Arts 2312 (Faculty office)
Contemporary art; material culture, craft, and design; gender and artistic labor; art criticism; feminist historiographies and theory; alternative spaces; art school pedagogies; global exhibition practice and history; queer culture and theory.
- (805) 893-8060 (Chair’s office)
- Arts 1230 (Faculty office)
- Arts 1240 (Chair's office)
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Early to Modern; intersections of texts, theories, and images.
Modern architecture; domestic architecture; émigré architects; patronage; histories of modernism, revival styles, and sustainable architecture.
As of Fall 2023, Professor Welter is currently not accepting new graduate students.
Architecture of the United States; Contemporary architecture.
Cultural history of European architecture and town planning, 17th - 19th centuries; theory and historiography of architecture.