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Holly Markovitz Goldstein

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, Boston University
  • M.A., art history, Boston University
  • A.B., art, Princeton University

Credentials

  • Professor, art history, 2010–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Lecturer, Department of Art History, Spring 2010, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
  • Lecturer, Department of Art History, Spring 2010, Boston University, Boston, MA
  • Lecturer, Department of Art History, Fall 2009, Boston University, Boston, MA
  • Senior lecturer, Humanities Department, 2006–2008, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
  • Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photographs, 2005–2008, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • Lecturer, Department of Art History, 2005–2006, Boston University, Boston, MA
  • Teaching Fellow, Department of Art History, 2004–2006, Boston University, Boston, MA
  • Teacher, art history and visual arts, 2000–2003, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM
  • Teacher, English as a Second Language, 1999, Beijing, China

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Travel stipend for teaching at SCAD Lacoste, 2019
  • Travel stipend for teaching at SCAD Hong Kong, 2019
  • Dean's Award for Teaching Effectiveness, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2014
  • Ambassador's Choice Award for Teaching Excellence, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2014
  • Travel grant stipend, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2011–2015
  • Juried travel grant, Boston University Graduate Student Organization, 2010
  • Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2008–2009
  • Harry Ransom Center, Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin, 2008–2009
  • Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Award, Pittsburgh Foundation, 2008–2009
  • Humanities Foundation Award Fellowship, Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2008
  • Association of Historians of American Art, CAA Conference travel grant, 2008
  • Kate and Hall Peterson Fund for Doctoral Study in the History of Photography Fellowship, 2007
  • Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University, 2006
  • Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, 2003–2006
  • Boston University Art History Department Alumni Fund, travel grants 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009
  • Grace May Tilton Prize for Thesis on Arts in America, Princeton University, 2000
  • New Jersey Commissioner's Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, 2000

Organizations

  • FOCUS
  • College Art Association
  • Southeastern College Art Conference
  • American Studies Association

Publications and presentations

  • "Hidden Histories Online Exhibit," (ongoing online publication) published with SCAD students in collaboration with the Georgia Historical Society, 2014–present.
  • "Savannah's Hidden Histories: Using Art and Historical Markers to Explore Local History," in The Art of Public History, co-authored with Christy Crisp, director of programs, Georgia Historical Society. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2017.
  • "A Garden of Contradictions," feature essay for Exposure, Journal of the Society of Photographic Education, Spring 2015.
  • "Imprint as Mirror," introduction essay for Autobiogeography, photographs by Allison Barnes, 2014.
  • "Imagining the South," introduction essay, Ain't Bad Magazine, Fall 2014.
  • Artist entries for photographers Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, A.J. Russell, and W.H. Jackson. Benezit Series published by Oxford University Press, Fall 2012.
  • "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A Visual History," Southern Spaces, Sept. 2012.
  • "Roni Horn aka Roni Horn" Exhibition Review, caa.reviews, Winter 2010.
  • "Rocky History: Deborah Bright’s Plymouth Rock and New England Stone Walls" in Hemisphere, Volume 2, (Fall 2009), 8–26.
  • Introduction to Greenhouse Neighbors: An Exhibition of Panoramic Photographs by Esther Pullman, Regis College, Carney Gallery, Weston, Mass. (2007), 1–8.

Lectures

  • "American Landscape Photography: Art as Storytelling," lecture accompanying the exhibition Esther Pullman: Greenhouses/Greenspaces/Greenplaces, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., invited keynote lecture (forthcoming), June 2019.
  • "Art, Community, History, and Engagement," presented at the FOCUS Conference for Photo-Historians, Los Angeles (invited conference panelist), Oct. 2018.
  • "Many Faces of Collaboration," The Art and Design of Teaching Art and Design ("TadTad") lecture, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2016.
  • "Current Issues in the History of Photography" (panel moderator and presenter), FOCUS Annual Conference, Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., 2015.
  • "Look Again" Gallery Talk, panel discussion and lecture regarding the exhibition In Passing: American Landscape Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2015.
  • "Outside the Box: The Museum as Teaching Tool" (panel discussion and lecture), The Art and Design of Teaching Art and Design (“TadTad”) lecture; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2014.
  • "Barns and Backyards: The Ordinary West in Contemporary Photography" (paper), Western History Association (WHA) Annual Conference, Denver, 2012.
  • "Regional Eccentricities: 'The Ordinary' in Contemporary Photography" (paper), College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2012.
  • "Get Out of the Car: Photography and the Local" (panel co-chair and discussant), Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Conference, Savannah, Ga., 2011.
  • "Plymouth in Photographs: Myths, Memories, Memorials" (paper), New England American Studies Association (NEASA) Annual Conference; Plymouth, Mass., 2010.
  • "Traveling East to Revisit the West: Robert Adams's 'Turning Back'" (paper), College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, 2010.
  • "Between the Lines: Civil War Maps as Visual Culture" (paper), guest lecture for Prof. Patricia Hills' Civil War course at Boston University, Boston, 2010.
  • "Constructing National Identity Through Western Survey Photography, Then and Now" (paper), American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2009.
  • "A Legacy of Progress and Destruction: Robert Adams's 'Turning Back'" (paper), Sixth Annual American Art History Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 2009.
  • "A Mythological Monument: Deborah Bright's Plymouth Rock" (paper), Great Lakes American Studies Association (GLASA) Annual Conference, South Bend, Ind., 2009.
  • "Set in Stone: Deborah Bright's Plymouth Rock" (paper), Fellows Lectures in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 2008.
  • Gallery Talk for Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke (lecture), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 2008.
  • "Now and Then: Adventures in Rephotography" (paper), College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Dallas, 2008.
  • Illuminations: Esther Pullman's Greenhouse Neighbors (lecture), Regis College Lifelong Learning, Regis College, Weston, Mass., 2007.
  • "No Place Like Home: The Homeless Body as Machine for Living" (paper), College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Boston, 2006.
  • Why Is Mona Lisa Smiling?: Secrets of Renaissance Art, Brookline Adult and Community Education, Fall Lecture Series, 2005.