Events
"Town and Country: British Taste in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries" SCAD Museum of Art Holiday Open House
Dec. 17, Wednesday, 1-6 p.m., SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Savannah, Ga. USA

Winter Quarter Begins
Jan. 5, 2009, SCAD-Savannah, SCAD-Atlanta and SCAD-eLearning, (various locations) (various cities), USA/International


Art History Faculty

John  Alford

John Alford
Atlanta
B.A., B.S., B.F.A., Auburn University; M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Georgia.
Judith Allen, Faculty, 2006

Judith Ott Allen
Savannah
B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University.
Rihab Bagnole Art History

Rihab Bagnole
Savannah
B.F.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Ohio University.
Cynda Benson, Faculty, 2006

Cynda Benson
Savannah
B.F.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Cynda Benson, Ph.D., is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century American art and the subject of women in art. She has almost 20 years of teaching and museum experience, and in addition to teaching in the art history department, she serves as the adjunct curator of American art at the SCAD Museum of Art. In that role, she has taught graduate seminars about the women artists of the Gilded Age and Winslow Homer, among others. She was a Luce Fellow of American Art and a National Endowment for the Arts professional intern for two years at the Smith College Museum of Art and has been listed in Who's Who in America. Benson's current area of research is the representation of women artists in late 19th- century American literature, art and culture.

Selected publications and curatorial experience:
  • "Narrating the 'Girl Artist': Fictional Constructions of Artistic Identity in Gilded Age America," forthcoming book.
  • Curator and catalog author, SCAD galleries: "Audrey Flack: Reinventing the Goddess" (2000), "Miriam Schapiro: Reconstructing Women's Traditions" (1999), "The Archetypal Image: Myth and Ritual in the Art of Romare Bearden" (1999), "Jacob Lawrence" (1998), "101 Visions: Selections from the Charles Cowles Collection" (1997) and "Romare Bearden: Paper Icons" (1996).
  • Co-author, "Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art," New York and Northampton, MA: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Smith College Museum of Art, 1999.
Selected presentations:
  • "The Girl Art Student in Gilded Age America," SCAD Museum, May 2005
  • "Käthe Kollwitz: Master Printmaker," Telfair Museum, Savannah, February 2004
  • "The 'New Woman' in the Studio: Women Artists in Gilded Age American Fiction," College Art Association Conference, New York 2003
  • "Daniel Chester French's 'Oglethorpe Monument' and the Spectacle of Veneration," Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, Va., 1997  
Selected awards:
  • Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD, 2004
  • Research Fellowship, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Penn., 1994
  • NEA Internship, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., 1991-93
  • Luce Foundation Award (dissertation grant), 1991
Memberships:
  • College Art Association
  • Association of Historians of American Art
  • Association for Textual Studies in Art History
  • American Studies Association
  • Southeastern College Art Conference

Margaret Betz, Faculty, 2006

Margaret Betz
Savannah
B.A., Chestnut Hill College; M.A., Queens College of the City University of New York; Ph.D., City University of New York.
Margaret Bridget Betz, Ph.D., has written for the SoHo News in New York, Art News - where she also as served as editorial associate - and the International Cultural Report. She has contributed scholarly articles to Artforum and Osteuropaforschung, and also was the creator and managing director of the Academy, a program that allows high school students to take college courses, at the Ohio State University in Columbus. In addition, she has spoken in Canada, England, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, as well as throughout the United States.

Selected exhibitions:
  • "Glasnost Under Glass"
  • "Asian Costume and Fabrics"
  • "Petersburg-Perestroika"
Selected awards:
  • Fellowship, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
  • Grants from Ohio Council on the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, The Cremona Foundation and Graphic Industries (Ohio)
Memberships:
  • CAA
  • AAASS
  • International Thomas Merton Society
  • Institute of Modern Russian Culture
  • HGCEA
Courses:
  • Art and Spirituality
  • Survey of Art History
  • 20th-century Art
  • Contemporary Art
  • Art Criticism
  • Picasso and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
  • Chagall
  • Malevich and Russian Modernism
  • Art History B.F.A. Thesis
  • Art History M.A. Thesis

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Patricia Butz
Savannah
B.A., M.A., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Catherine Cupps, Faculty, 2006

Catherine Cupps
Savannah
B.A., Ohio State University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Ohio State University.
Catherine C. Cupps, Ph.D., has taught at SCAD since 2001. She specializes in late 19th- and early 20th-century European art.

Publications:
  • “Rembrandt Impressions.” In “Etchings of Rembrandt,” ed. and intro. by Lance Tawzer. Savannah: SCAD, 2006.
Presentations:
  • Gallery Talk, “Hogarth and his ‘Election Series,’” The Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Studies, SCAD, Oct. 7, 2004.
  • Chair, “Academies and Academicians: The Other 19th Century,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2003.
  • “The Animism of the Imagery in Smithson’s Early Paintings,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Mobile, Ala., Oct. 26-29, 2002.
Awards:
  • School of Liberal Arts, SCAD, Travel Grant (2003, 2002 and 2001)
  • Pyne Grant (travel for dissertation research), Ohio State University, 1998
Courses:
  • Survey of Western Art I and II
  • 19th-century Art
  • 20th-century Art
  • History of Prints
  • French Impressionism

Beverly Elson

Beverly Elson
Savannah, eLearning
A.A., Colby-Sawyer College; B.A., M.A., The American University; M.B.A., South Eastern University; Ph.D., University of Maryland.
Rosemary Erpf

Rosemary Erpf
Atlanta
Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Boston University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., City University of New York.
jonathan field

Jonathan Field
Savannah, eLearning
B.A., Ph.D., Lancaster University.
Jonathan Field, Ph.D., is an experienced lecturer and artist with extensive knowledge in coordinating a range of art education programs. He is committed to an interdisciplinary model of art education and has established a strong exhibiting portfolio. His area of expertise is the 20th century, particularly the post-War period, with a focus on the relationship between postmodern American literature and visual representation. Since 1999, Field has taught art history at SCAD. Visit his Web site for more information about Field’s academic and practical interests.

Recent (2006) Exhibitions and Publications:
"Sisyphus," Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta; Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art; and the Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi, India. Also broadcast as part of "Indie Show Case," hosted by Cox Communication, Georgia.
SECAC/MACAA Exhibition (juried), Parthenon Gallery, Nashville, Tenn.
"Shimmer," Transcultural Exchange, Boston.
"Horizons," Red Gallery, Savannah.
"Monster," STARCCA Gallery, Savannah.
"60 Seconds of Play," Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, and Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Awards:
2006: Inclusion in Marquis Who's Who as educator of note
2003: SCAD Presidential Award

Classes taught at SCAD:
Contemporary Art
Art Criticism
Survey of Western Art I and II
20th-century Art
Art Since 1945
French Modernism
New York: Art Capitol of the World
Art in Australia



Antoniette Galotola
eLearning
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Queens College; Ph.D., The City University of New York.
frederick gross

Frederick Gross
Savannah
B.A., University of Delaware; M.A., Hunter College of the City of New York; Ph.D., City University of New York.
Frederick Gross teaches modern and contemporary art, specializing in the history, theory and criticism of photography. His teaching and writing involve re-thinking the history of photography, postwar American art, contemporary art and visual culture. Gross is completing a book on the portraiture of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, and has published articles about photography and contemporary art in such periodicals as Cabinet and Afterimage.

Selected publications:
  • “Contemporary Photography Between the Global and the Local,” in “Global and Local Mediations,” Gregory Minnisale and Celina Jeffery eds. (forthcoming)
  • "The Crisis of Photographic Authorship: A Contextual Approach to Intention," in “Thinking Photography (Again),” University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
  • "Two New Books: Diane Arbus Revelations and Family Albums," Afterimage 31, 3 (Nov.-Dec. 2003).  
Lectures/symposia:
  • “Photography and Situationist Psychogeography: An Uneasy Coupling,” Fifth Savannah Symposium, “Building in the Public Realm,” SCAD architectural history department, 2007
  • "The Crisis of Photographic Authorship: A Contextual Approach to Intention” at "Thinking Photography (Again)," Durham Center for Advanced Photography Studies, Hatfield College, University of Durham, England
  • Speaker, "Arbus Scholars and Artists Day," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • "Diane Arbus and the Social Panorama," Art Forum Lecture Series, Nassau County Community College, Garden City, N.Y.
  • Participated in Mellon Foundation Seminar, "The Culture of the Cold War," CUNY Graduate Center
Awards:
  • Mall Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center
Memberships:
  • College Art Association
Courses:
  • Contemporary Art
  • 20th-century Art
  • Visual Culture

jeffrey hamilton

Jeffrey Hamilton
Savannah
B.Mus., M.A., University of Cincinnati; M.Arch.Hist., University of Virginia; Ph.D.*, University of Delaware.
Yuling Huang

Yuling Huang
Atlanta
Soochow University; M.A., University of Kansas.
timothy allen jackson

Timothy Allen Jackson
Savannah
B.F.A., Western Kentucky University; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.
Timothy Jackson is a professor of new media in the art history department. His research interests include theory and criticism of new media, telematic networked art systems research and development, interactive art installations, art as research/research as art, new media design and consulting, new media poetics and aesthetics, and critical pedagogy. He has published book chapters, catalog essays and art criticism in a range of scholarly and online journals. Originally trained as a painter, Jackson has exhibited work internationally and has lectured at many conferences and symposia. He has developed more than 20 courses in the field of new media in several institutions of higher education over the past 20 years.

Selected publications:
  • "A Radical Aesthetic: Syncretism as Free/Open Source Culture," Drain magazine, October 2005.
  • "Ghosts of Modernity in the Work of Avantika Bawa," in "Wall to Wall Drawings" catalog exhibition, the Drawing Center, New York, July 2005.
  • "Imagining Futures: Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Emerging Technologies,” in “Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options," James Inman et. al., eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Press, 2003.
  • "A Cartography of Awe Rendered in Invisible Ink: The Sublimation of the Sublime in the Work of Arnaud Dejaummes," Ryerson University Catalog, 2003.
  • "Homily for a Labor of Meaning," Bad Subjects: Issue 53, January 2001.
Selected presentations/lectures:
  • Authored, organized and chaired Leonardo Educators Forum Panel, "New Media Futures: The Artist as Researcher and Research as Art in the 21st Century," and presented "Metaphors and Taxonomies: Art as Basic Research," 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Literature, Science, and Art, New York University, New York, November 2006; and College Art Association, NYU, New York, February 2006.
  • "A Radical Aesthetic: Syncretism as Free/Open Source Culture," Without Borders Art Festival, the University of Maine - Orono, September 2005.
  • Presented overview of work by Synth/Ops Research Group, conference at CIANT - International Center for Art and New Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005.
  • Invited speaker for the Ryerson Panel of Researchers from the Faculty of Communication and Design, International Council of Fine Arts Deans, Toronto, Canada, November 2002.
Selected exhibitions:
  • "Travelossities: Sadness and Speed," 10-minute digital video, "Without Borders Art Festival," Bangor, Maine, September 2005.
  • "Impossible Sky," DVD, CIANT - International Center for Art and New Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005.
  • "Impossible Sky: Sacred Skies," installation in "Intervention" exhibition, Lacoste, France, June - August 2005.
  • "Impossible Sky: SCAD-Atlanta," installation in "Digital Cotton" exhibition, Atlanta, February 2005.
  • "Impossible Sky," documentation DVD, "T(HERE)," India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, December 2004.
Memberships:
  • Leonardo Education Forum
  • College Art Association
  • MARCEL Network
Awards:
  • Computing Center Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Leonhard Center Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Heritage Canada Grant, Research Partnering
  • Canada Council Grant, Media Arts
  • Canadian Fund for Infrastructure Grant
  • SRC Research Grant, Ryerson University
Courses:
  • Survey of New Media Art
  • Digital Art and Culture

james janson

James Janson
Savannah
B.F.A., Ohio University; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.
James T. Janson, Ph.D., has worked as assistant curator of education at the Detroit Institute of Arts, assistant professor of art history at Kent State University, and associate professor of art history at Georgia Southwestern State University. In addition, he directed the School of Art Gallery at Kent State and the Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio. While teaching at GSW, he also was an adjunct curator of adult education at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Ga. Janson developed the museum studies program at SCAD and served as chair of the art history department from 2000-02. His areas of specialty are Italian Renaissance art, Northern Renaissance art, museum studies and the Papacy.

Publications and presentations:
  • “Map Magic,” Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Art, SCAD, 2005
  • “Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection,” Newton Center, SCAD, 2004
  • “Fifteenth-century Flemish Independent Portraiture: Origins, Development and Influences,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Miami, 1998
  • “French and American Impressionism,” exhibition catalog, Albany Museum of Art, 1996
Awards:
  • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2004
  • Ruth Barber Moon Award, Case Western Reserve University, 1997
  • Graduate Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University, 1985, 1986
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1974
Memberships:
  • American Association of Museums
  • College Art Association
  • Historians of Netherlandish Art
  • Education Committee, Telfair Museum of Art
  • Board of Directors, Curiosity Street Children’s Museum
Courses:
  • Survey of Western Art I and II
  • Renaissance Art
  • Italian Renaissance Art
  • Northern Renaissance Art
  • Introduction to Museum Principles and Methods
  • Museum Education
  • Museum Administration
  • Quattrocento Art (Italy off-campus program)
  • 16th-century Art and Architecture of Italy (Italy off-campus program)
  • Italian Baroque Art (Italy off-campus program)
  • Art History B.F.A. Thesis
  • Art History M.A. Thesis
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gabriela jasin

Gabriela Jasin
Savannah
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers, State University of New Jersey.
Gabriela Jasin, Ph.D., specializes in the art of the baroque and Rococo periods in Europe. She has taught courses on special topics including Bernini and the art of spectacle and a graduate seminar that pictured Bernini’s sculpture, architecture and writing in terms of 20th-century film and theater theory.

Publications:
  • “Newtonian Science and Lockean Epistimology in Chardin’s ‘Soap Bubbles,’” in an edited volume published by Cambridge Scholars Press, December 2007.

edwin,johnson

Edwin Johnson
Savannah
B.A., Castleton State College; M.A., Seton Hall University; M.A., Ph.D.*, University of London.
Kim Keehong

Keehong Kim
Savannah
B.F.A., Seoul National University; M.A., Seoul National University; Ph.D., University of Paris-Sorbonne.
Christoph Kluetsch

Christoph Klütsch
Savannah
M.A., Heidelburg University; Ph.D., Bremen University.
Daniel Levine, Art History

Daniel Levine
Savannah
B.F.A., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.


Anthony Mangieri
Atlanta
B.A. Pace University; M.A., Hunter College.
Lesa Mason, Faculty, 2006

Lesa Mason
Savannah
B.A., Rosemont College; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Indiana University.
Lesa Mason, Ph.D., has been an art history and museum studies professor at SCAD since 1991. She has led off-campus programs to Germany, France, Italy and Washington, D.C. As a recipient of several grants and scholarships, she worked in museums and galleries in Europe. Her doctoral research focused on the historic and technical study of the late medieval Cologne Workshop of the Master of the Holy Kinship. Her current work focuses on finding the connection between the “old” and the “new” in art and on interdisciplinary research in Cologne, Germany, where she is working on the documentation and interpretation of historic sites.

Publications:
  • “A Sacred Site: Sankt Kolumba (An Interdisciplinary Documentation in the Arts),” co-author, work in progress.
  • Exhibition catalog, “Pour l’Amour des Chiens,” SCAD, 2003.
  • "Relics" and "Litugical Vestments," “Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia,” 1997-98.
  • "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare," East Carolina University Publication of the Joseph Beuys Symposium (June 1995), 1996.
  • Exhibition catalog, “Deepening Concerns and New Impulses,” SCAD, 1992.
Exhibitions:
  • 1998, “A Sacred Site: Sankt Columba,” for the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Exhibit A Gallery, SCAD
  • 1996, “I Like America and America Likes Me: Action Art by Joseph Beuys,” SCAD
  • 1995, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare," East Carolina University
  • 1995, "Medieval Underdrawings in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum," Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
  • 1992, “Deepening Concerns and New Impulses,” SCAD, The Amerika Haus, Cologne Germany
Selected presentations:
  • 2006, “Materials and Techniques of the English Tudor Court,” SCAD Museum of Art
  • 1995, "How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare," Joseph Beuys Symposium, East Carolina University
  • 1992, "The Impact of Technical Studies on the History of Art," CAA Session, Harvard University
Selected awards:
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Spring 2003
  • Earthwatch Grant, 1996
Courses:
  • Survey of Western Art I and II
  • Northern Renaissance
  • Great Masters’ Materials and Techniques
  • Art Treasures of the Vatican
  • Museum Studies: Conservation  
  • Joseph Beuys
  • Cathedral of St John the Baptist

Michael Morford, Faculty, 2006

Michael Morford
Savannah
B.F.A., M.A., Texas Christian University; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve.*
Michael Morford joined the art history department at SCAD after teaching as an adjunct professor at John Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace College, Kent State University and Case Western Reserve University. He has conducted extensive research in Florence and Rome on 16th-century Italian painting and sculpture, including the influence of dream manuals on Pontormo and the propagandistic imagery of Baccio Bandinelli.

Publications:
  • Catalog entries for Luca Cambiaso No. 65 and Giovanni Battista Franco Nos. 167-171.
  • Short biographies of Cherubino Alberti, Andrea Boscoli, Aurelio Luini, Niccolo Martinelli, Giovanfrancesco Penni, Bernardino Poccetti and Ventura Salimbeni in "Drawings in Midwestern Collections II: 1500-1600," ed. Edward Olszewski, Brepols Press (Belgium), 2006.
Presentations and Lectures:
  • "Mutual Propaganda Fulfilled: Baccio Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus,'" New College Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Fla., March 2004.
  • "Baccio Bandinelli's 'Hercules and Cacus': Display of Clemency or Reminder of Instabilities?," Sixteenth-century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2003.
  • "Athena's Cock (?): An Interpretation of the Fighting Cocks in Panathenaic Amphorae," Ohio University Graduate Symposium, Athens, Ohio, May 2003.
  • "The Iconology/Iconography of Andrea del Sarto's 'Portrait of a French Lady' in the CMA," Methodologies in Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2000.
Awards:
  • Baker-Nord Fellowship, 2004-05
  • Butkin Fellowship, 2004-05
  • Case Western Reserve University Graduate Fellowship, 2004-05
Memberships:
  • CAA
  • Italian Art Society
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Sixteenth Century Society
Courses:
  • Survey of Western Art I
  • Italian Renaissance Art

Christine Neal

Christine Neal
Savannah
B.A., Bucknell University; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Christine Neal, Ph.D., worked as a curator in the art museum field for almost 20 years before joining SCAD. Her experience includes public, private and university art museums across the country. In addition, she has served as an independent art curator. Neal and one of her museum curation classes proposed thematic displays for Savannah's Bethesda Home for Boys Museum.

Selected publications:
  • "Sylvia Shaw Judson," American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2002
  • "Claude Raguet Hirst: Her [Still] Life Story," Woman's Art Journal, Spring 2002
  • "The Still Lifes of Claude Raguet Hirst," American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2001
  • Essay, "L'art de Kahlil Gibran," published in the exhibition catalog for "The Garden of The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran, Writer and Painter." Accompanied the exhibition at the Institut Du Monde Arabe in Paris.
  • Annual Exhibition Competition, Museum News, 1998 and 1999
Lectures:
  • CAA, "New Voices in 19th-century Scholarship," 2000
  • American Culture/Popular Culture Association annual conference (1999)
  • Southeastern College Art Conference, "Against the Odds: Women Making Their Mark in Art" (1999)
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 32nd Annual Graduate Student Conference (1998)
Awards:
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development
  • Kress Foundation, University of Wisconsin
  • Tuition Remission, University of Wisconsin
Memberships:
  • Chair, AAM Exhibition Competition, 1997 - 2000
  • Judge, Annual Art Fair, Winter Park, Fla., 2000
  • Judge, Third Annual Art Exhibition, Brunswick, GA, 1999
  • Curators Committee, American Association of Museums
  • Southeastern Museum Conference
  • Southeastern College Art Conference
Classes:
  • Survey of Western Art 1 and II
  • Introduction to Museum Principles and Methods (museum studies minor)
  • Musuem Curation and Collections Management (museum studies minor)
  • American Art
  • Independent Study (undergraduate)
  • Art History B.F.A. Thesis
  • Art History M.A. Thesis

Andrew Nedd

Andrew Nedd
Savannah
B.A., San Diego State University; M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Andrew Nedd's specialties are modernism in general and Russia in particular. His dissertation was titled "Defending Russia: Russian History and Pictorial Narratives of the 'Patriotic War,' 1812-1912." He served on the organizing committee for the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies conference, which held its 41st annual meeting in Savannah in April 2003. Nedd also played a significant role in initiating a regular biennial art history conference at SCAD, and in Spring 2006 he served as co-chair for the first SCAD art history symposium, "The New Renaissance: An Interactive Paradigm."

Publications:
  • "Segodniashnii Lubok: 'Art, War, and National Identity.'" Pearl James, ed. "Picture This!: Reading World War I Posters" (University of Nebraska, 2007).
Selected presentations:
  • Fifth Savannah Symposium, SCAD, February 2007. Chaired session.
  • "Russian Primitivism Becomes Avant-garde: 'Lubki' in Russian World War I Posters," Modernist Studies Association, October 2005.
  • "Reading Tolstoy: Russian Pictorial Narratives of the 'Patriotic War of 1812,'" Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 2005.
  • "Modernism and the Question of Place," Fourth Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, February 2005. Chaired session.
  • "Russian Modernism in Central and Eastern Europe," Southeastern College Art Conference, October 2004. Organized and chaired panel.
Awards:
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2001 and 2005.
  • U.S.C. College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2003.
  • Short-term residential fellowship, Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Spring 2002.
  • Regional Scholar Exchange Program Grant, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Spring 2001.
Courses:
  • Survey of Western Art I and II
  • 19th-century Art
  • 20th-century Art
  • Introduction to Museum Studies
  • Russian Modernism
  • Treasures of Provence, French Modernism (in Lacoste, France)
  • New York as Art Capital of the World (New York City off-campus program)



Adrian Parr
eLearning
B.A., M.A., Deakin University; Ph.D., Monash University.
Alexandria Pierce

Alexandria Pierce
Savannah
B.A., M.A., University of Victoria; Ph.D., McGill University.
An art historian, curator and gallery director for more than two decades, Alexandria Pierce is educated in a range of art historical disciplines, including interdisciplinary teaching and curatorial practice. Her professional background includes teaching, faculty service, student internship and mentoring, community liaison and public lecturing. In 2007, she will participate in the Venice Biennale, Documenta, in Kassel, Germany, and the Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.

Selected publications:
  • "Imperialist intent: Lord Strathcona's Art Collection in Nineteenth-Century Montreal," in "Montreal-Glasgow," Bill Marshall, ed., Glasgow, UK, University of Glasgow, 2005.
  • "LANDeSCAPES: Reinhard Reitzenstein and Simon Frank," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004-05.
  • "Yechel Gagnon: 'Palimpsest,'" McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
  • "'Sunlight in the Shadow': A Nietzschean Experiment," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
  • "Enlightenment Materialism and the Modern Moral Subjects of William Hogarth," essay for the exhibition "The Prints of William Hogarth," McMaster Museum of Art, 2004.
Exhibitions (2004-05):  
  • Cathy Busby: "Sorry" and Garry Neill Kennedy: "Failure of Intelligence"
  • "LANDeSCAPES: Reinhard Reitzenstein and Simon Frank"
  • "Yechel Gagnon: 'Palimpsest'"
  • "'Sunlight in the Shadow': German Expressionist Prints"
  • "Einstein's Brain"
Selected presentations/lectures:
  • "The 'Powerfield' in Installation Art," guest lecture, department of visual arts, Concordia University, Montréal
  • "Mapping European Humanism onto the Colony of Canada," Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts 
  • "Betty Goodwin's Prints," McMaster Museum of Art
  • "The Spiritual in Art: The Russian Experience," Knox United Church, Dundas, Ontario
  • "Where Traditions Meet: Painting in Moghul India," McMaster Museum of Art
  • "The Levy Art Collection," Pumphouse Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Memberships:
  • College Art Association
  • Association of Art Historians, United Kingdom
Courses:
  • Contemporary Art
  • 20th-century Art
  • Art History Methodology 
  • Art Criticism
  • History of Printmaking

Jane Rehl

Jane Rehl
Savannah
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Rutgers, State University of New Jersey; Ph.D., Emory University.
Jane Rehl, Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 30 years while also maintaining strong ties to the museum world. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Emory University and has taught at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Skidmore College and Emory University. She also has served as assistant curator and assistant director of the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, curator of the permanent collection of art at Skidmore College, gallery director and curator of the Museum of the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs, and assistant curator of the Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University.

Publications (most recent):
"Weaving Principles for Life: DWW Textiles of Ancient Peru." In "Andean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum," eds. Margaret Young-Sánchez and Fronia W. Simpson (Denver Art Museum, 2006).
"The Order of Things in Ancient Peru: Metaphors in Warj-Related DWW Textiles," in "Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints, Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America," (Textile Society of America Inc., 2000).

Presentations and Lectures:
"The Natural Law of Change in Late Intermediate Period Discontinuous Warp and Weft Weaving of Ancient Peru," Textile Society of America Symposium, Oakland, Calif., Oct. 9, 2004.
"Weaving Principles for Life: Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru," Andean Textile Traditions Symposium, Denver Museum of Art, Jan. 27–28, 2001.
"The Order of Things in Ancient Peru: Metaphors in Wari-Related Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles," Textile Society of America Symposium, Santa Fe, N.M., Sept. 21-23, 2000.

Curated Exhibitions (select):
"The Social Life of Kuba Cloth," M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, 1998.
"Whistler Prints," Permanent Collection of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1982.
"Faith Ringgold: Black. Woman. Artist. A Retrospective," Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1973.

Memberships:
CAA
American Association of Museums
National Museum of the American Indian
The Textile Society of America
The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah

Courses:
Survey of Western Art I and II
Ethnographic Art
Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica
Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture of Peru
Museum Administration

Capri Rosenberg

Capri Rosenberg
Savannah
B.A., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., Duke University.
Nisha Shanghavi

Nisha Shanghavi
Atlanta
B.F.A., Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.A., University of Texas at Austin.
Denise Smith

Denise Smith
Atlanta
B.A., Colorado State University; M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of New Mexico.
Now serving as the academic director for liberal arts at SCAD-Atlanta, H. Denise Smith has taught art history for 13 years, offering courses at SCAD in Savannah, Atlanta and Lacoste and through SCAD e-Learning. She also is an active scholar who presents papers at regional and international conferences about Native American art. She has published papers and book reviews in many of the professional journals in her field of expertise. In addition, she curated the "Continuing Traditions" exhibition at Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art in 2004, featuring the private collection of Stanley Hanson, M.D., and Mary Frances Hanson.

Publications:
Review of Carol Diaz-Granados and James Duncan, eds., "Rock Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight" (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004) in Rock Art Research, ed. Robert Bednarik, vol. 22(2), November 2005.
"Continuing Traditions: The Hanson Collection of Native American Art," exhibition catalog. Savannah: Telfair Museum of Art, 2004.
Review of Bruno David, "Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding" (London: Leicester University Press, 2002) in Rock Art Research, ed. Robert Bednarik, vol. 20(2), November 2003.
"History R