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Celeste Lovette Guichard

Architectural history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history and archeology, Columbia University
  • M.Phil., art history and archeology, Columbia University
  • M.A., art history and archeology, Columbia University
  • B.F.A., art history, University of New Mexico

Credentials

  • Professor, architectural history, Sept. 2004–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Visiting instructor, department of art, Jan. 2003–May 2003, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
  • Instructor, graduate liberal studies department, Sept. 2002–Dec. 2002, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
  • Instructor, Aug. 2001, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  • Instructor, department of art history and archaeology, Jan. 2001–May 2001, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Instructor, department of visual and performing arts, Jan. 1999–May 1999, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
  • Instructor, department of art history and archaeology, Sept. 1998–May 1999
    Teaching assistant, department of art history and archaeology, Jan 1998–May 1998, Columbia University, New York, NY

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Georgia Humanities Council Grant, 2009
  • City of Savannah "Weave a Dream," 2009
  • Georgia Humanities Grant, 2007
  • Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 2001–2002
  • Mellon Fellowship, Columbia University, 1999–2000
  • President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1996–1998
  • Summer Travel Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997

Organizations

  • The American School for Classical Studies at Athens, Managing Committee, voting member
  • The Society for Architectural Historians
  • Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
  • The College Art Association

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Arris, co-editor, 2015–2017.
  • World Heritage and National Registers in Perspective, co-editor and contributor, Transaction Publications, Rutgers University Press, Jan. 2014.
  • "Arts," Journal of Virtual World Research, editor and contributor, vol. 6, June 2013.
  • Five essays on Greek and Roman objects in the Snite Museum collection, Eclectic Antiquity: The Classical Collection of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
  • "Review of The Complete Greek Temples by Tony Spawforth (London: Thames & Hudson, 2006) and Classical Greek Architecture: The Construction of the Modern by Alexander Tzonis and Phoebe Giannisi (Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2004)," CAA Reviews, Dec. 2008.

Conference papers and lectures

  • "Architecture of Pleasure," session chair, SESAH annual conference, New Orleans, Sept. 2016.
  • "The Appeal of Virtual Spaces," Geekend 2012, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 2012.
  • "Plague Doctors and Dungeon Strats: The Pedagogical Value of Video Games," Ohio Academy of History Spring Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 2012.
  • Symposium panelist, Pioneer Valley Romanists Forum, Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology, Brown University, Providence, R.I., Aug. 2010.
  • "Hadrian Panhellenios and the Crafting of Monument as Memory," Midwest Art Historians Conference, Omaha, Neb., April 2009.
  • "The Sacrificial Word at Hadrianic Klaros," a symposium in honor of Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York, Oct. 2009.
  • "Armchair Cosmopolites and Worldly Travelers: The Dialogue Between Real and Vicarious Travel in the Greco-Roman World," session chair, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Feb. 2009.
  • "World Heritage and National Registers in Perspective," conference organizer (35 participants representing 16 countries), Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2009.
  • "The Ancient World," session chair, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Auburn, Ala., Sept. 2006.
  • "The Development of the Savannah Waterfront," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, Ga., April 2006.
  • "Building in the Public Realm," conference organizer (28 participants representing 12 countries), Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2007.
  • "Hellenistic Art and Architecture," University of North Carolina, Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 2004.
  • "The Resonance of Myth in Klarian Architecture and Ritual," Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 2003.
  • "The Architecture of Klaros and Didyma: Oracular Ritual in the Wake of a Better Past," College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, Feb. 2003.
  • Columbia University Lectures for Literature Humanities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 2001–May 2002.
  • "Frank Gehry: A Retrospective," Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 2001.
  • "Structuring the Sacred Journey: Pilgrimage in Hellenistic Oracular and Mystery Cults," Seeing the Gods:
  • Patterns of Pilgrimage in Antiquity conference, Reading University, U.K., July 2000.
  • "Ancient Architecture, New Paradigms," session chair, Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Houston, Apr. 1999.
  • "The Image, Space, and Ritual of Regeneration and Protection in Asklepaia," College Art Association annual meeting, Toronto, Feb. 1998.
  • Barnard College Lectures on the Greek and Roman Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 1998.