Adjunct faculty are practicing museum professionals who are well known in the field, and also work as independent consultants and published writers. Their curricula provide students with active and engaged understandings of museum work through their own career experiences working in museums, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and more. Our adjunct faculty teach about museum management and the creation and management of collections and exhibitions, as well as teach seminars on museum conservation, exhibition history, museums and the law, fundraising, and a variety of topics relevant for contemporary museum practice.
Adjunct Faculty
Ramona Bronkar Bannayan
Former Senior Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Museum of Modern Art.
Areas of research and interest include Modern and Contemporary Art (including performance, installation and digital art); Exhibitions; Collections; Circulating Exhibitions; Museum Futures; Fine Arts; Museum Management & Administration
Museum Studies Courses:
Conservation and Collections Management (MSMS-GA 2222.001)
Jeffrey D. Feldman
Former Faculty Fellow in Museum Studies at NYU.
Author of Framing the Debate (2007) and Outright Barbarous (2008).
Areas of research interest include Political Rhetoric; Jewish Museums; Social Anthropology; Museum Theory and Politics; Museum Objects; Political Conflict, American Politics.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museums and Political Conflict (MSMS-GA 2226.001)
Hima Gleason
Former Faculty Fellow in Museum Studies at NYU.
Director of Legal Education at the Justice learning Center.
Areas of research interest include:
Museums and Law, For-Profit and Nonprofit Museums; Collecting; Antiquities; American Collecting; American Law.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museums and the Law (MSMS-GA 2220.001)
Sharon Vatsky
Former Director of School, Teacher and Family Programs at the Guggenheim Museum. Author of Museum Gallery Activities: A Handbook (2018) and Interactive Museum Tours: A Guide to In-Person and Virtual Experiences (2023) both published by Rowman and Littlefield.
Areas of interest and research include: Museum Programming; Education; Curriculum Development; Audience Engagement; Museum Experience; Access Programs; Modern and Contemporary Art.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museum Education (MSMS-GA 2224)
Helen R. Warwick
Principal, Helen Warwick Management, LLC, New York and formerly Executive Director of Individual Development at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museum Management (MSMS-GA 1502)
Development, Fund-raising, and Grantsmanship: Funding the 21st Century Museum (MSMS-GA 2221)
Ian Kerrigan
Senior Vice President of Exhibitions at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and Managing Editor of Exhibition journal published by the National Association for Museum Exhibition and the American Alliance of Museums.
Areas of interest and research include: exhibition design and development, project management, public history, and interpreting traumatic content.
Museum Studies Courses:
Exhibition Planning & Design (MSMS-GA 3332-001)
Ilk Yasha
Ilk Yasha is an educator, arts administrator, and multidisciplinary facilitator at The Studio Museum in Harlem. He has worked with many arts and cultural organizations including The Museum of Modern Art, Pioneer Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of the City of New York, and Brooklyn Historical Society.
Areas of interest and research include: community engagement, education, public programs, museum activism.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museums and Community (MSMS-GA 2228-001)
Ruth Starr
Former Accessibility Manager at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and current Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion Consultant for NASA.
Areas of interest and research include: accessibility; arts education; technology; inclusion; workplace culture and well-being; ASL and communication in museums; accessible curation and design.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museum Career Lab (MSMS-GA 3990-002)
Queena Ko
Director of Education at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Areas of interest include: Art & Visual Culture; Museum Education; Co-created Programming; Curriculum Writing; Counternarratives; Anti-Racist / Anti-Bias Frameworks; Culturally Responsive Teaching; BIPOC-led Arts; Labor Equity; Sustainable Structures for Networks of Learning Within Museums
Museum Studies Courses:
Museum Education (MSMS-GA 2224-001)
Matthew Israel
Formerly Commissions Lead at Open Arts at Meta; Head Curator and Director of The Art Genome Project at Artsy. Ph.D., Art History & Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Author of A Year in the Art World: An Insider's View; The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists; and Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War.
Areas of interest and research: modern and contemporary art history, art and technology, curation, art writing, art and politics, and digital strategy.
Museum Studies Courses:
Museums and Contemporary Art (MSMS-GA 3335)