Art History Faculty

	Judith Ott Allen Savannah B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University.
	Rihab Bagnole Savannah B.F.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Ohio University.
	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 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
	Patricia Butz Savannah B.A., M.A., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California.
	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 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.
	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. 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: Inclusion in Marquis Who's Who as educator of note, 2006 SCAD Presidential Award, 2003 Courses: 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
	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 Savannah B.Mus., M.A., University of Cincinnati; M.Arch.Hist., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Delaware.
	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 and 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 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
	Edwin Johnson Savannah B.A., Castleton State College; M.A., Seton Hall University; M.A., Ph.D.*, University of London.
	Keehong Kim Savannah B.F.A., Seoul National University; M.A., Seoul National University; Ph.D., University of Paris-Sorbonne.
	Christoph Klütsch Savannah M.A., Heidelburg University; Ph.D., Bremen University.
	Daniel Levine Savannah B.F.A., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.
	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 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 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 Courses: 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 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)
	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 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 Savannah B.A., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., Duke University.
	Geoffrey Taylor, Chair Savannah M.Arch., Savannah College of Art and Design; Master of Design Studies, Harvard University; Doctor of Design, Harvard University. Geoffrey Taylor has been named art history chair. After completing the Master of Architecture program at SCAD in 1994, Taylor earned Master of Design Studies and Doctor of Design degrees from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Taylor returns to SCAD following service as a research scholar in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he previously received the Chester Dale fellowship. A Samuel H. Kress curatorial fellow and a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Houghton Library, Taylor specializes in Italian Renaissance drawings and prints. SCAD honored him as 2005 Outstanding Alumnus.
	Rebecca Trittel Savannah B.A., University of Southern Mississippi; M.A., Ph.D., University of Essex. Rebecca B. Trittel, Ph.D., began teaching at SCAD in 2001 and became chair of the art history department in August 2005. Her areas of specialization include portraiture, 19th-century art, British art and modernism. Publications: Dictionary of Artists' Models, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. "Constable & Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision," Catalog, University of Essex, 2001. "The Hermit of Eartham: William Hayley and his Friendship with George Romney," Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 5, 2000. "Printing the Unprintable: The Bicentenary of Goya's 'Caprichos,'" Catalog, University of Essex, 1999. Presentations and lectures: Presented a paper about the "Self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds" in the Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Studies, Savannah, 2005. Delivered a presentation about the unveiling of newly discovered paintings and illustrations by Pierre Auguste Renoir and Norman Rockwell at Red Baron Antiques, Atlanta, 2003. Chaired a session at the Blake and the Enlightenment conference, University of Essex, 2000. "Gold Braid and Brass Buttons: The Military Uniform's Influence on Men's Civil Fashions of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries," Conflicting Visions: The Culture of War in Europe 1660-1815 Conference, University of Leicester, UK, 1999. Memberships: College Art Association Southeastern College Art Conference Association of Art Historians Awards: Marquis's Who's Who of American Women, 2006 SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2003 National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Travel Grant, Colchester, UK, 2001 Courses: Survey of Western Art I and II 19th-century Art British Portraiture French Modernism Treasures of Provence Masterpieces in English Collections
	Rebecca Turner Savannah B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Rebecca Turner joined the art history department at SCAD in Fall 2005. She specializes in medieval art history and has been teaching both bricks-and-mortar and online classes for more than 10 years. Memberships: College Art Association The International Society of Medieval Art Courses: Survey of Western Art I Medieval Art and Architecture
	Stephen Wagner Savannah B.A., Emory University; M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., University of Delaware. Stephen M. Wagner's area of specialization is art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, with a special focus on manuscripts produced in France and Germany between the eighth and 11th centuries. He is the mentor for the art history department's graduate studies program and the faculty liaison for the Art History Society. Publications: Review of "Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images," New York: Palgrave, 2002, for caareviews.org, September 2006. "The Impact of Silk on Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts," in "Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America," 2003. Presentations: "Continuity and Innovation in Eleventh-Century Manuscripts Made at Echternach," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2007. "The Impact of Silk on Ottonian and Salian Manuscripts," biennial symposium of the Textile Society of America, "Silk Roads, Other Roads," Northampton, Mass., September 2002. "Luxurious Trappings in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Textiles and Manuscripts and their Implications for Ottonian Court Culture," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2002. "Theophanu's Gift and the Impact of Byzantine Silk on German Illuminated Manuscripts," Dumbarton Oaks workshop, "Focus on Byzantine Textiles," September 2000. Memberships: Byzantine Studies Conference College Art Association International Center of Medieval Art Medieval Academy of America Southeastern College Art Conference Southeastern Medieval Association Textile Society of America Courses: Survey of Western Art I and II Medieval Art Early Christian and Byzantine Art History of Medieval Manuscripts
	Lisa Jaye Young Savannah B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York.

	John Alford Atlanta B.A., B.S., B.F.A., Auburn University; M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Georgia.
	Rosemary Erpf Atlanta Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Boston University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., City University of New York.
	Yuling Huang Atlanta Soochow University; M.A., University of Kansas.
	Gabriela Jasin Atlanta 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.
	Veronica Kessenich Atlanta B.A., Saint Mary's College; M.Phil University of St. Andrews.
	Anthony Mangieri Atlanta B.A. Pace University; M.A., Hunter College; Ph.D., Emory University.
	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 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 Recorded in Stone: The Rock Art of Abo Pueblo," Archaeological Society of New Mexico, vol. 28, Albuquerque, N.M., 2002. "Rock Art and the Shape of Landscape," in "Painters, Patrons and Identity: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J. J. Brody," ed. Joyce M. Szabo, pgs. 211-240. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Presentations/Lectures: "Defining the Inner Sanctum: The Role of Rock Forms in Shaping Sacred Space," Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville, Tenn., October 2006. Co-chair of session "Rock Art II: The Prehistoric Image and Art History." "Leaving a Mark: Inscribed Landscapes of the American Southeast," International Rock Art Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2006. Chair of session "Place Theory in Rock Art Studies." "Entering the Dark Zone," Southeastern College Art Conference, Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 26-30, 2005. "'Style' vs. 'Memetics': Exploring Some New Ideas," International Rock Art Congress, Agra, India, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2004. "The Hickory Nut Site," Eastern States Rock Art Research Association Conference, Huntsville, Ala., March 2003. Exhibitions: "Continuing Traditions: The Hanson Collection of Native American Art," Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, September 2004 - January 2005. "Continuing Traditions II: The Hanson Collection of Native American Art," Pepe Hall, SCAD, October - November 2004 "Hindsight Is 20/20," Ex Libris Gallery, SCAD, Sept. 16, 1999 - Jan. 2, 2000. Memberships: Eastern States Rock Art Research Association Archaeological Society of New Mexico Society of Georgia Archaeology American Rock Art Research Association International Federation of Rock Art Organizations-ESRARA Representative Classes at SCAD: Survey of Western Art I and II Treasures of Provence Ethnographic Art Art and Architecture of Native New Mexico Native American Art I and II Rock Art: Legacy of Lascaux Special Topics: Native Art of the American Southwest Art History B.F.A. Thesis Art History M.A. Thesis
	Emily Taub-Webb Atlanta B.A., B.F.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D.*, Emory University.

	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.
	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. 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: Inclusion in Marquis Who's Who as educator of note, 2006 SCAD Presidential Award, 2003 Courses: 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.
	Maria Malagon eLearning Dip. - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; MA work - Universidad Externado de Colombia; MA work - Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin.
	Adrian Parr eLearning B.A., M.A., Deakin University; Ph.D., Monash University.
	Anne Swartz eLearning B.A., University of the South; M.A., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. Anne Swartz regularly writes about contemporary art and artists. Selected publications: NY Arts Magazine Woman's Art Journal symploke Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture "History of New Media: From John Cage to Now" (Prentice Hall) Exhibition: Curator, "Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., 2007-08 Presentations and lectures: College Art Association Barron Art Center, Woodbridge, N.J. Southeastern College Art Conference, Jacksonville, Fla. Pollock-Krasner House Round Table Lecture Series, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Awards: Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, Tokyo, Japan SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development Memberships: College Art Association Southeastern College Art Association Courses: Survey of Western Art I and II 20th-century Art Contemporary Art Art Criticism History of New Media Women in Art Special Topics: Art of the 1970s Installation and Environmental Art

* Degree in progress or pending completion of thesis/dissertation