Andrew Schulz

Andrew (Andy) Schulz is an award-winning teacher and scholar whose research focuses on the arts of Spain in the early modern period. His teaching interests encompass eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and American Art, as well as the contemporary art world.

Schulz has contributed numerous essays to exhibition catalogues and edited volumes, as well as peer-reviewed articles to leading scholarly journals. He is particularly well known for his scholarship on the art of Francisco Goya (1746-1828). His book Goya’s ‘Caprichos’: Aesthetics and the Body (Cambridge University Press) received the 2006 Eleanor Tufts Prize from the Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA), awarded annually to an outstanding English-language publication in the area of Spanish or Portuguese art history. Schulz is currently completing a book tentatively titled The Alhambra in the Age of Enlightenment: Islamic Art and Culture in the Spanish Imagination.

A graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A. with high honors) and Columbia University (Ph.D.), Schulz has been awarded major research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Art, and the Getty Research Institute, among others.

From 2018 to 2025, Schulz served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona, and from 2019 to 2025 he was the university’s inaugural Vice President for the Arts. Prior to his arrival at the University of Arizona, Schulz held tenured faculty positions and appointed leadership roles at Penn State University (2013-18), the University of Oregon (2005-13), and Seattle University (1994-2005).