Katherine Tsanoff Brown was the first art history instructor at Rice University’s newly-established Department of Art and Art History, arriving in 1963. She had entered the Rice Institute as a student at the age of 15, graduating in 1938. She became a full professor of art history in 1975, and also served as the University’s Dean of Undergraduate ...

Philip Oliver-Smith was a professor of Art History at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas. Professor Oliver-Smith’s areas of expertise and research interest included ancient Roman and Greek sculpture and pottery, and he served as co-director, along with his departmental colleague Walter Widrig, on a ...

William Camfield is Joseph and Joanna N. Mullen Professor of Art History Emeritus at Rice University. He came to the University in 1969 from the University of St. Thomas and was chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice from 1970-72, and again from 1999-2001. He retired in 2002. Professor Camfield’s areas of expertise and research interest ...