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Andrew Nedd

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Southern California
  • M.A., art history, University of California, Davis
  • B.A., history, San Diego State University

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2001–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct professor, 2013, 2014, 2016, Sinoway International Education Group, Beijing
  • Adjunct professor, 2012, Shanghai
  • Lecturer, education department, 2000, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
  • Assistant lecturer, 1998–99, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • Teaching assistant, department of art history, 1995–98, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • Intern, 1994–95, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • Teaching assistant, department of art history, 1994–95, University of California, Davis, CA
    Reader, history department, 1992
    Research assistant, 1992
  • Shipping clerk, 1988–90, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
  • Auction assistant, 1988, Christie's South Kensington, London

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Scholar-in-Residence Fellow, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington, D.C., 2016
  • SCAD Sabbatical Award Program, Spring, 2016
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2005
  • University of Southern California, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2003
  • Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Spring 2002
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Winter 2001
  • Regional Scholar Exchange Program (RSEP) Grant, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Spring 2001
  • Borchard Foundation Grant, USC, Spring 1998
  • U.C. Davis Humanities Grant, Summer 1994
  • U.C. Davis Art History Fellowship, Fall 1993–Spring 1994
  • History Department’s honors society at San Diego State University

Organizations

  • Phi Alpha Theta, 1985–88

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Guest editor of a special issue of Arts 14, no. 4 (2024): "Ukraine Under Fire: The Visual Arts in Ukraine and Abroad Since 2014." www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/5EW7E6LWW7
  • History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian "Patriotic War," 1812–1914. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  • "'The Picturesque Caucasus' of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii Timm." In Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter and Representation, edited by Allison Leigh and Maria Taroutina. University of Manchester, 2023.
  • "A Foreign Artist and a Russian War: Peter von Hess, a Case Study in Imperial Patronage and National Identity." Arts 12, no. 4 (2023): 171. Special issue of Arts: "Visual Culture Exchange Across the Baltic Sea Region during the Long 19th Century," edited by Michelle Facos, Thor Mednick, and Bart Pushaw. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040171
  • Guest editor of a special issue of Arts 9, no. 3 (2020): "World War, Art, and Memory: 1914 to 1945." www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/world_war_art_memory
  • "Petrov-Vodkin's In the Line of Fire." In Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War, edited by Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout. University of Alabama Press, 2020.
  • "Defending Russia: Illustrated Narratives of the Patriotic War of 1812," in Illustrating History / Illustrer l'Histoire: Book Practices and Textual Itineraries, Vol. 7, edited by Nathalie Collé, Brigitte Friant-Kessler, and Maxime Leroy, Presses Universitaires deNancy –Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2019.
  • Pisch, Anita. The Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929-1953: Archetypes, Inventions, & Fabrications (Acton: Australian National University Press, 2016), Russian Review (January 2018).
  • "The Russian Avant-Garde in 1914: Primitivism, Apocalypticism and Abstraction," in 1914: Guerre et Avant-Gardes (20/21e siècles. Cahiers du Centre Pierre Francastel), edited by Annette Becker, Marine Branland, and Rémi Labrusse, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2016.
  • "Irony, Derision, and Magical Wit: Censors as a Spur to Russian Abstract Art," co-authored with Margaret Betz in Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Arresting Images, edited by Robert Justin Goldstein and Andrew M. Nedd, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015.
  • "Taking the Long View: An Interview with Brian Wallace of Red Gate Gallery," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 14, no. 1 (2015): 57-64.
  • "Diversity and Collaboration: An Interview with The island6 Art Collective of Shanghai," Artpulse 5:15 (February 2014): 32-35.
  • Alaniz, José. Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), Russian Review 70:3 (July 2011): 512-513.
  • "The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia," The Human Tradition Around the World, Worobec, Christine D. ed. (Rowman & Littlefield 2009), Russian Review 69:2 (April 2010): 346-347.
  • Cohen, Aaron J. Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), Russian Review 68:2 (April 2009): 332-333.
  • "Segodniashnii Lubok: Art, War, and National Identity," in Picture This: World War I Posters, edited by Pearl James, University of Nebraska, 2008.

Conference papers

  • "The Picturesque Caucasus of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasily Timm," College Art Association (CAA), session organized by the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA), New York, February 2019.
  • "Foreign Artists and a Russian War: A Case Study in Imperial Patronage and National Identity," Visual and Cultural Exchange Across the Baltic Sea Region, Part II: 1750-1850, Indiana University Gateway at Kreuzberg, Berlin, March 2018.
  • "Defending Russia: Illustrated Narratives of the Patriotic War of 1812," Illustrer l'histoire/Illustrating History, Le groupe de recherche inter-universitaire Illustr4tio, Université de Valenciennes, December 2015.
  • "Segodniashnii Lubok: Avant-Garde, War and National Identity," 1914: War and the Avant-Gardes, Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA, Univ. of Paris) and Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, December 2013.
  • "Censorship of the Image in Imperial Russia," The Study Group on Nineteenth-Century European Censorship, APICE Center, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, March 2010.
  • "Reading Tolstoy: Russian Pictorial Narratives of the Patriotic War of 1812," College Art Association (CAA), session organized by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), Dallas, February 2008. Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 2005.
  • "Russian Primitivism Becomes Avant-garde: Lubkiin Russian World War I Posters," Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, October 2005.
  • "Defending Russia: Russian History and Pictorial Narratives of the Patriotic War, 1812-1912," Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC). Raleigh, N.C., October 2003.
  • "Peter Hess and Vasilii Vereshchagin: Two Pictorial Narratives of Russia's Patriotic War of 1812," Southern Conference of Slavic Scholars (SCSS), Daytona Beach, Fla., Spring 2002.