Fine and Performance Arts - Art

Kristin Arioli
Instructor, Art History
843.953.2293

• Renaissance and Early Modern History

Anna Ballinger
Assistant Professor, French, Francophone and Italian Studies
843.953.6721

• French art
• French cinema

Karen A. Chandler
Associate Professor, Arts Management
843.953.5474

• Arts and nonprofit management
• Fundraising for artists, arts, and cultural organizations
• Case study research in arts and cultural oganizations
• African-American jazz history in Charleston

Frank Cossa
Professor, Art History
843.953.8226

• Art and painting, especially 18th century art and Romanticism

Tessa Garton
Professor, Art History
843.953.5683

• Medieval art

Michael W. Haga
Associate Dean, School of the Arts 
843.953.7766

• Contemporary craft
• Arts advocacy

Dorinda Harmon
Director, Transfer and Adult Student Services
843.953.5620

• Global and local history of basketry 

Valerie Morris
Dean, School of the Arts
843.953.8222

• Arts policy
• Arts education
• Arts management training

Michael Phillips
Professor, Studio Art
843.953.8230

• Understanding modern art
• Philosophy of modernism

Peter Piccione
Associate Professor, Comparative Ancient History; Egyptology
843.953.4861

• Ancient Egyptian drama and theater
• Epigraphy (facsimile copying of Egyptian temple and tomb decorations)

Dale Rosengarten
Historian/Curator of Jewish Heritage, Special Collections
843.953.8028

• Lowcountry sweetgrass baskets

Mark Sloan 
Director/ Senior Curator, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art 
843.953.7891

• Contemporary Art 
• Outsider art
• History of the circus

Fine and Performance Arts - Film

Anna Ballinger
Assistant Professor, French, Francophone and Italian Studies
843.953.6721

• French cinema

John Bruns
Associate Professor, English
843.953.4957

• Film and Media
• Comedy

Frank Cossa
Professor, Art History
843.953.8226

• Film film and/or popular culture

David Muscowitz
Assistant, Professor, Communication
843.953.8128

• Film and popular culture
• Jewish representation in film
• Cultural politics in film

Robert Westerfelhaus
Associate Professor Communication
843.953.6533

• Film
• Popular culture
• Humansexuality
• Masculinity

Fine and Performance Arts - Music

Lee Siow
Associate Professor, Music
843.953.5195

• Violin performance and technique
• Chamber music (Charleston Music Fest)
• Bridging music education between East and West

Fine and Performance Arts - Theatre

Franklin Ashley
Professor, Theatre
843.953.8149

• Current New York theatre
• Politics
• Jazz
• Musical comedy
• Screenwriting, playwriting

Susan Kattwinkel
Associate Professor, Theatre
843.953.8218

• Theatre history
• Performance theory
• Popular culture
• Computers in teaching
• Teaching and technology

Janine McCabe
Assistant Professor, Theatre
843.953.8219

• Custume design and technology 

Todd McNerney
Chair/Associate Professor, Theatre
843.953.7735

• Acting, performance
• Piccolo Spoleto (theatre series)
• Theatre (generalist)

Peter A. Piccione
Associate Professor, Comparative Ancient History; Egyptology
843.953.4861

• Egyptian origins of drama and theater
• Ancient Egyptian liturgical drama
• Modern re-staging of ancient Egyptian drama

Laura Turner
Associate Professor, Theatre
843.953.7733

• Theatre
• Music

Fine and Performance Arts - Voice

Deanna McBroom
Associate Professor, Music
843.953.5440

• Singing technique
• Singing voice rehabilitation and care of the professional voice