Faculty

	John Alford Atlanta B.A., B.S., B.F.A., Auburn University; M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Georgia.
	Judith Ott Allen Savannah B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University.
	Emeka Anonyuo Savannah B.A., University of Nigeria; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State 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 Classes: 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, E-Learning 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 Atlanta Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Boston University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., City University of New York.
	Jonathan Field Savannah, E-Learning 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
	Larry Forrest Savannah B.A., M.A., University of Louisville; Ph.D., Indiana University. Larry Forrest, Ph.D., has taught at SCAD since 1990. His areas of expertise are ancient Greek and Byzantine art. His seminar topics have ranged from Aegean archaeology to Byzantine mosaics. Forrest's research interests are in ancient sculptural spolia and middle Byzantine monastic architecture. Publications: "A Study of an Unpublished Book of Hours in the Library of Calvary Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY," Athanor, 1988 Memberships: College Art Association Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies American Institute of Archaeology Awards: Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD Gennadeion Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Classes: Survey of Western Art 1 Ancient Art and Architecture Medieval Art and Architecture Early Christian and Byzantine Art Greek Art and Archaeology Art History Methodology Issues in Greek Sculpture Issues in Byzantine Art Issues in Greek Vase Painting Seminar on Aegean Art and Archaeology
	Antoniette Galotola E-Learning B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Queens College; Ph.D., The City University of New York.
	Valerie Gonzalez Savannah Superior National Diploma, School of Fine Arts and Architecture of Marseille-Luminy; Ph.D., University of Aix-en-Provence. Valérie Gonzalez obtained her Ph.D. in human sciences at the University of Aix-en-Provence, specializing in the history of Islamic art and civilization. In 1985, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting at the School of Fine Arts and Architecture of Marseille-Luminy. Prior to SCAD, she taught in France and the United States, at Clark University, Mass., and Dartmouth College, N.H. Selected Publications: 2006, “Insights on Islamic Aesthetics, Visual Culture and History/Shvatanja Islamske Estetike, Visualne Kulture I Historije,” KultB Biblioteka posebna izdanja knjiga 012, Sarajevo 2002, “Le piège de Salomon, La pensée de l'art dans le Coran,” Albin Michel, Collection Chaire de Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris  2001, “Beauty and Islam, Aesthetics of Islamic Art and Architecture" 2001, "The Double Ontology Of Islamic Calligraphy: A Word-Image on a Folio from the Museum of Raqqada (Tunisia),” in “M. Ugur Derman, 65th Birthday Festschrift,” edited by Irvin Cemil Schick, Sabanci Universitesi, Istanbul Selected Presentations and Lectures: March 2006, Series of lectures in Bosnia and Herzegovina November 2005, Haute Ecole des Arts Appliqués, Geneva February 2005, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta  March 2001, Barker Center, Humanities Center, Harvard University  July 2000, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds Selected awards: 2004, Eisenstein Prize for “The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell’s Space that Sees: A comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology” in “Muqarnas, An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, 20,” Harvard University, Brill, Leyden 1990-94, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Interuniversitaire d'Histoire et d'Archéologie Médiévales, University Lumière Lyon II, and the Maison de la Méditerranée et des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence Memberships: 2001, Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles 1998, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 1996-97, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Historical Studies 1994-95, French Institute of Arabic Studies in Damascus, Syria
	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.
	Yuling Huang Atlanta Soochow University; M.A., University of Kansas.
	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 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 Read more in The Chronicle.
	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.
	Celina Jeffery Savannah B.A., University of Wales Institute, Cardiff; M.A., University of Sussex; Ph.D., University of Essex.
	Edwin Johnson Savannah B.A., Castleton State College; M.A., Seton Hall University; M.A., Ph.D.*, University of London.
	Susan Kart Savannah B.A., Smith College; M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D.* Columbia University.
	Christoph Klütsch Savannah M.A., Heidelburg University; Ph.D., Bremen 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-Richart