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