Email: sscott04@syr.edu----------------------
Art & Music Histories
308 C Bowne Hall
Phone: 315-443-5033
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Sascha Scott
Assistant Professor of Art History Art and Music Histories
Research and Teaching Interests
Sascha Scott is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. She is also a member of the Native American Studies faculty. In addition to offering broad surveys of American visual culture, she teaches courses that expand out from her research, including seminars that explore representation of American Indians, art and politics, and art and the environment.
Education
Ph.D., Art History, Rutgers University, 2008
M.A., Art History, George Washington University, 2001
B.A., Anthropology, The Colorado College, 1997
Courses
19th Century American Art
20th Century American Art
The Landscape in American Art
Picturing Native America
Critical Perspectives in American Art
The Literature of Art Criticism
Selected Publications
Books Reviews, Etc.
A Strange Mixture: Art and Federal Indian Politics Between the World Wars (in progress)
Articles
♦ Forthcoming, “Awa Tsireh and the Art of Subtle Resistance,” The Art Bulletin, December 2013.
♦ “Unwrapping Ernest L. Blumenschein’s The Gift,” American Art vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 2011): 20-47.
♦ “Like a Rhinestone Cowboy,” review of Enduring Legend, Fragile Myth: Cowboy Paintings by Jason Cytacki, exhibition at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY, in CAA Reviews, http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1958, published Feb. 08, 2013 (Exhibition review)
♦ Roald Nasgaard and Ray Ellenwood, The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960, exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Vancouver/Toronto/Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc., 2009), in CAA Reviews, www.caareviews.org/reviews/1523, published Oct. 06, 2010. (Review of exhibition and catalogue)
♦ “Ernest Blumenschein,” “Jan Matulka,” “B.J. O. Nordfeldt,” “Jerome Myers,” The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (Oxford University Press, December 2010).
Selected Awards, Honors, Grants
Clements Research Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Short-term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2011-2012
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship, School for Advanced Research, Summer 2011
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2007-08
American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship 2007-08 (Declined)
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006-07