PRINCIPAL FACULTY
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Joshua Brown |
| Joshua Brown is executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. history, and author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002), and co-author of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005). He received a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for a study of Civil War visual culture. Brown will lecture on the Civil War illustrated press and participate throughout the institute. | |
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Sarah Burns |
| Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of the History of Art at Indiana University. She is a leading scholar of nineteenth-century American art and popular culture, and author of award-winning studies, including Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2004) and Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (1996). and co-editor of American Art to 1900: A Documentary History (2009). Burns will be the lead art historian throughout the institute. | |
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Gregory Downs |
| Gregory Downs is assistant professor of history at the City College of New York, CUNY. Downs specializes in Civil War and Reconstruction history and is author of Declarations of Dependence: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Transformation of American Popular Politics (2011). Downs will serve as the institute’s primary faculty resource on Civil War history throughout the institute. | |
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David Jaffee |
| David Jaffee is professor and director of new media at the Bard Graduate Center. He is a leading scholar of U.S. social history, material culture, and a noted writer on and practitioner of teaching with technology. He is author of A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (2010), and has designed and led digital history teaching initiatives sponsored by NEH and the Atlantic Philanthropies’ Visible Knowledge Project. Jaffee will be the institute’s lead historian, focusing on teaching with visual evidence. |
VISITING LECTURERS AND SESSION LEADERS
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Jeanie Attie |
| Jeanie Attie is chair and associate professor of history at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She teaches courses in 19th-century U.S. history (antebellum and Civil War eras) as well as thematic courses on historical memory, cities, migrations and ethnicity. She is the author of Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War (1998). Attie will deliver a lecture on northern and southern women and domesticity, labor, voluntary work, and political intervention during the Civil War. | |
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Georgia Barnhill |
| Georgia Barnhill is director of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Long-time Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at AAS, Barnhill is a leading scholar of nineteenth-century American prints. She is author of Bibliography on American Prints of the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries (2005).Barnhill will lead a session on Civil War ephemera. | |
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Alica Fahs |
| Alice Fahs is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Fahs specializes in U.S. cultural history, including popular culture, print culture, and the market. She is author of The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (2000), and co-editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004). Fahs will deliver an introductory lecture on the Civil War’s visual “landscape.” | |
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Ellen Gruber Garvey |
| Ellen Gruber Garvey is is associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture (1996) and is writing Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Nineteenth Century Print Culture, about the ways ordinary readers made use of the public realm of newspapers and magazines in documenting their lives and their reading and writing. | |
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Harold Holzer |
| Harold Holzer is the chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and the author, co-author or editor of numerous books on Lincoln and the Civil War era, including The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (1984), The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (1987), The Union Image: Prints of the Civil War (2000), Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), and The New York Times Complete Civil War (2011). Holzer will lead a session on the iconography of emancipation. | |
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Barbara Krauthamer |
| Barbara Krauthamer is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her areas of research are U.S. slavery and emancipation; African American/Native American intersections; comparative slavery; critical race and gender theory. She recently completed her study, Native Country: African American Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Nations. It is the first full-length study of chattel slavery and the lives of enslaved people in these two Indian nations. She has written articles and book chapters on slavery in Indian Territory, and African American/Native American intersections. | |
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Anthony Lee |
| Anthony Lee is professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College. The recipient of the National Museum of American Art’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, he is author of Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (2001); A Shoemaker’s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town (2008); and co-author of On Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (2008). Lee will lead a session on Civil War photography. | |
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Bruce Levine |
| Bruce Levine is James G. Randall Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A noted scholar of the Civil War, he is author of Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War (2nd ed., 2005), Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2005), and The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Destruction of Slavery and the Old South during the Civil War (2013). Levine will deliver a lecture on recent trends in Civil War scholarship. | |
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Louis P. Masur |
| Louis P. Masur is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College. He is author of Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union (forthcoming 2012), The Civil War: A Concise History (2011), The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America (2008), 1831: Year of Eclipse (2001), and Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 (1989). Masur will lead a session on the visual record of emancipation. | |
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Cynthia Mills |
| Cynthia Mills is executive editor of American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution. She is a leading scholar of nineteenth-century public sculpture, co-editor of Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscape of Southern Memory (2003), and is currently working on a book project entitled Beyond Grief: Art, Mourning, and Mystery in the Gilded Age. Mills will lead a session on Civil War commemorative sculpture. | |
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Michael Sappol |
| Michael Sappol is a historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (2002). His scholarly work focuses on the cultural history of the body; the history of anatomy and medical representations and displays of the body; the history of alternative and popular medicine; the history of medical film. Sappol will lead a session about Civil War medical images. | |
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Richard Samuel West |
| Richard Samuel West is author of major studies on nineteenth-century cartoons, including Satire on Stone: The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler (1988), The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History (2004), and co-author of William Newman: A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York (2009). West will lead a session on Civil War political cartoons. | |
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Deborah Willis |
| Deborah Willis is professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Willis is the leading scholar of African-American photography, and is author of Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (1994) and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers (2002), among other studies. Willis will lead a session on the black image in Civil War-era photography. | |
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Peter H. Wood |
| Peter H. Wood is professor emeritus of history at Duke University. He specializes in African-American history and the black image in art. His books include, with Karen Dalton, Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years (1989) and Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War (2010). Wood will lead a session on Winslow Homer’s oil painting, Near Andersonville. |
INSTITUTE DIRECTOR
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Donna Thompson Ray |
| Donna Thompson Ray is the project director for faculty development programs at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. She has directed many NEH-funded faculty development programs and visual history projects, including Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom (2002-04) and the Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence website. She is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at Drew University specializing in nineteenth-century American visual culture. |
