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H. Christian Carr

Associate chair, art history

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • M.A., history of the decorative arts, Bard College
  • B.A., English, art history, Hollins University

Credentials

  • Professor of Art History, 2012–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
     
  • Assistant Professor of Art History, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD
     
  • Director, Arts Management Program, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
     
  • Director, Sweet Briar Museum and Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
     
  • Acting Director, Sweet Briar Museum/Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
     
  • Consulting Curator, Whalehead Preservation Trust, Corolla, NC
     
  • Jessie Ball DuPont Scholar-in-Residence, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
     
  • Curatorial Assistant, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Art and Design), New York, NY
     
  • Curatorial Intern, Historic House Trust of New York City
     
  • Registrarial Intern, Biltmore House, Asheville, NC
     
  • Staff Assistant, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Dean’s Award for Teaching Effectiveness, 2018
  • Stewart G. Rosenblum Scholar, Royal Collections Studies, Windsor, UK, 2018
  • Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Royal Collection Studies: Art Collecting from English Sovereigns to Elite Southerners, 2018
  • Scholarship, International Council of Museums, to speak at conference as a representative of US-ICOM, 2014
  • Sydney and Frances Lewis Fellowship for Gender and Women’s Studies Recipient for summer residency, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, 2014

Organizations

  • Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, member
  • Association of American Art Historians, member
  • Coastal Museums Association, member
  • Southeastern Museums Conference, member
  • Victorian Society in America, member

Publications and presentations

  • Panel chair, “Developing, Sustaining and Revitalizing the Teaching Museum” for Why Museums Matter: The Teaching Museum Today at the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Annual Conference at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, June 2017
  • Out of the Classroom and Into the Galleries for the panel “21st-Century Issues for University Museums and Galleries” at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Roanoke, VA, Oct. 2016
  • Can We Teach Collaboration? for the Experiential Education panel at the 9th Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference, Savannah, GA, March 2016
  • Museums as a Catalyst for Tourism in the American South for the International Council of Museums conference Museums: Power and Politics, St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2014
  • Bringing Home the World: The Artistic Collections and Architectural Patronage of Indiana Fletcher Williams of Sweet Briar, 1828-1900 for the symposium Transactions: Transnationalism and the Formation of American Culture at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Jan. 2012