Kirk Savage

104 Frick Fine Arts

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-648-2405

EDUCATION

1985-90 University of California, Berkeley

M.A., Ph.D. History of Art

1975-79 Yale University, New Haven

B.A. Mathematics and Philosophy

TEACHING POSITIONS

1990- University of Pittsburgh

Assistant professor, History of Art and Architecture, 1990-1998

Associate professor, 1998-

Chair, 2004-

Fall 1998 Cornell University

Visiting professor, Architecture

1991-93 College of William and Mary

Visiting assistant professor, American Studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

· Winner of the 1998 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association, for best book of the year published in American Studies.

• Reviewed in Boston Globe, Charlotte Observer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Times Literary Supplement, and over 20 other newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.

Selected Essays

“History, Memory, and Monuments: An Overview of the Scholarly Literature on Commemoration,” online essay commissioned by the Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service, at: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/resedu/savage.htm. See online.

“Trauma, Healing, and the Therapeutic Monument,” in Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, ed. Daniel Sherman and Terry Nardin (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2006), 103-120.

“Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward's Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War,” in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader, ed. Jeannene Przyblyski and Vanessa Schwartz (New York: Routledge, 2004), 262-276.

“Vinnie Ream’s Lincoln (1871): The Sexual Politics of a Sculptor’s Studio,” in American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol, ed. Donald R. Kennon and Thomas P. Somma (Ohio University Press, 2004), 160-175.

“Monuments to a Lost Cause: Commemorating Steel in Pittsburgh, Pa.” in Beyond the Ruins: Deindustrialization and the Meanings of Modern America, ed. Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 237-256.

“The Past in the Present: The Life of Memorials,” in Reading Rhetorically: A Reader for Writers, ed. John C. Bean, et al. (New York: Longman, 2002). See online.

“Art, Science and Ecological Enquiry: The Case of American Nineteenth-century Landscape Painting,” in Recoveries & Reclamations (Advances in Art & Urban Futures Series, vol. 2), ed.J. Rugg and D. Hinchcliffe (Bristol, Eng.: Intellect Books, 2001), 60-66. See online.

“Uncommon Soldiers: Race, Art, and the Shaw Memorial,” in Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, ed. Martin H. Blatt, et al. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 156-167.

“The Self-Made Monument: George Washington and the Fight to Erect a National Memorial,” in Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster, eds., Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998), 5-32.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

HAA 0501: American Art (introductory survey with multicultural emphasis)

Freshman Studies 0070: American Art and Culture in Pittsburgh

HAA 1010 Clayton and its World: Art and Material Culture in a Victorian Home

HAA 1500: Special Topics: 19th-Century American Sculpture

HAA 1500: Special Topics: The Civil War and American Art

HAA 1512: Monuments, Maidens, and Minimalists: 19th and 20th-Century American Sculpture

Graduate

HAA 2005: Art Historical Methods of Research and Scholarship

HAA 2006: Art History Writing Practicum (workshop on revising for publication and on grant proposal writing)

HAA 2500: Mary Cassatt and Feminism

HAA 2500: Representation of Race in American Art

HAA 2500: History and Theory of Public Art

HAA 2500: Art and the Gilded Age

HAA2500: Trauma and Monuments

HAA 2560: In the Warhol Museum

HAA 2970: Pedagogy of Art History

American Studies 570: Artifacts of Collective Memory [College of William and Mary]

Architecture 680: Art and Architecture in the Public Sphere [Cornell University]

GRADUATE STUDENTS

PhDs supervised (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

(co-supervised with Terry Smith): Carolyn Butler-Palmer, “I Won’t Play Primitive to Your Modern: The Art of David Neel (Kwagiult, 1985-2000).” August 2006.

Paul Scolari, “Indian Warriors and Pioneer Mothers: American Identity and the Closing of the Frontier in Public Monuments, 1890-1930.” 2005.

Charles Pearo, "Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922): Tracing the Construction of Artistic Identity." 2002.

Anne Knutson, "Art, Desire, and Empire: American Propaganda Posters of World War One." 1997.

Ivy Schroeder, "Minimalism for the Masses: Public Sculpture Under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program, 1972-1989." 1997.