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AmericanJESSICA SEWELL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305A Assistant Professor, Art History and American Studies; American Material Culture, Architecture, Gender and Architecture, B.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Professor Jessica Sewell has been teaching at Boston University since 2003. She is a scholar of American material culture, and gender and architecture. Her classes include Sex, Gender, and Architecture; Studies in American Material Culture; Introduction to Architecture; and many others. She has taught at the Binghamton University and New York University. Her current book project is Gendering the Spaces of Modernity: Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915, and she has published articles on gender and urbanism in a number of recent anthologies. KIM SICHEL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202E Associate Professor; History of Photography and Modern Art. A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University Professor Kim Sichel has been teaching at Boston University since 1987. A scholar of photographic history and European modernism, she served as Chair of the Art History Department from 2002 to 2005, as Director of Museum Studies, and as Director of the Boston University Art Gallery from 1992 to 1998. Professor Sichel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern European art and the history of photography. She advises a large number of graduate students studying photography and modern art, as well as advising dissertations in the American and New England Studies Program. Her research specialties are in the history of photography. Recent books include Germaine Krull/Monte Carlo (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), and Evelyn Hofer (Steidl, 2004). She is the author of Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity, (1999), published in English by MIT Press and in German by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. This book was a finalist for the Kraszna-Kraus Foundation awards for best photographic history book of 1999, and won an award for best photography monograph for 1999 from the Maine Photographic Workshops. In addition, she has published numerous articles, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues in Europe and the United States. The catalogues include Street Portraits 1946-1976: The Photographs of Jules Aarons (2003); Brassai: Paris le jour, Paris la nuit (1988); From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography (1995); Black Boston: Documentary Photography and the African American Experience (1994); Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library (1992); Turn of the Century Photographs by Robert Demachy (1983); Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity, and the Documentary Mode (1998); and Philip Guston 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles (1998) . Current projects include a study of historical and contemporary aerial photography, and a book on documentary photography in the 1970s. Professor Sichel has received a Fellowship for University Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-1995), a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1994-1995), has been a Junior Fellow at the Boston University Humanities Foundation (1996-1997, 1989-1990) and served as a Senior Fellow in 2005-2006. PATRICIA HILLS725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 301B Professor; American Art. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., City University of New York, Hunter College; Ph.D., New York University Professor Hills teaches courses on American art and visual culture, and is a specialist in the history of American painting, African American art, and art and politics. Major books and catalogues for exhibitions she organized include: Stuart Davis (1996), John Singer Sargent (1986), Alice Neel (1983), Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s (1983), The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection (1980), Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910 (1977), The Painters' America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910 (1974), The American Frontier: Images and Myths (1973), Eastman Johnson (1972). She has also contributed essays to catalogues of major exhibitions, such as Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (1993), Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990 (1992), The West as America (1991), Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket (1990). Her articles have appeared in American Art, Oxford Art Journal, Prospects, Archives of American Art Journal, Dictionary of Women Artist, The Encyclopedia of New York City, American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts Vol. 2, Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850 (1998), and Redefining American History Painting (1995). Eastman Johnson: Painting America (1999), which she co-curated with Brooklyn Museum of Art curator Teresa A. Carbone, won the Henry Allen Moe Prize for most outstanding exhibition catalogue in the State of New York for the year 1999. She has held both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center and the W. E. B. Du Bois Center, both of Harvard University. Her textbook/anthology, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is currently writing a book on Jacob Lawrence. KEITH N. MORGAN725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210A Director of Graduate Studies, Professor; American and European Architecture. B.A., The College of Wooster; M.A., Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware; Ph.D., Brown University A scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century American and European architecture, Professor Morgan is interested in the relationships between architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture. Professor Morgan has taught at Boston University since 1980. He has served as the director of the Preservation Studies Program and of the American and New England Studies Program and as the chairman of the Art History Department on two occasions. He is a former national president of the Society of Architectural Historians. His recent publications include Shaping a New American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt, Boston Architecture, 1975-1990, which he coauthored with Professor Naomi Miller, and a new introduction for the republication of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect. He is the editor and one of the principle authors for Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston and serves as the architecture editor for The Encyclopedia of New England. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Buildings of the United States project, several committees for the restoration of historic landmarks and is a trustee of the Hancock Shaker Village. |
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| Boston University Department of Art History | August 17, 2007 |