
Jeffrey Hamilton
Art history professor
Education
- Ph.D., art history, University of Delaware
- M.Arch.Hist., architectural history, University of Virginia
- M.A., art history, University of Cincinnati
- B.M., music, University of Cincinnati
Credentials
- Professor, art history, 2000–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Adjunct professor, Department of Art, Music, and Theater, Fall 2000, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA
- Adjunct professor, School of Architecture and Design, 1998–1999, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University)
- Lecturer, 1994, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
- Lecturer, 1994, OMI College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati
- Instructor of Docents, 1993, Cincinnati Art Museum
- Teaching assistant, 1996, University of Virginia
- Teaching assistant, 1992–1993, University of Cincinnati
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2002
- American Friends Scholar, American Friends of the Attingham Summer School, 1999
- University of Delaware International Travel Award, University of Oxford, 1999
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Delaware, 1998
- University of Delaware Department of Art History Award, Institute of Historical Research, London, 1998
- Paper chosen by the art history faculty of the University of Delaware to represent the department at the Philadelphia Symposium at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998
- Institute for Public History of the University of Virginia, internship awarded for summer 1997
- Dupont Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1996–1997
- Dupont Graduate Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1995–1996
- Winterthur Museum Winter Institute Fellowship, 1995
- Victorian Society in America Fellowships for attending the London and Newport, R.I. summer schools, 1994
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1993
- Graduate Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1992
- Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute Fellowship, 1991
Organizations
- Society of Architectural Historians
- Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
- College Art Association
Publications and presentations
- "Public Sculpture," "Horatio Greenough," "Revivalism," and "Papier Mâché" for the Encyclopedia of Sculpture published by Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2004.
- Work in Progress: Currently at work on an article on the effect on cities of the elite rural presence in 18th-century England and an article the effects of war on architecture and design in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Conference papers and lectures
- "City of Barriers: Forms of Separation and Exclusion in Eighteenth-Century London," presented at the First London Studies Conference, London, July 2011.
- Panel chairperson, "London Rising," The First London Studies Conference, London, July 2011.
- Panel chairperson, "Creating the Urban Landscape," Vernacular Architecture Forum annual meeting, Savannah Ga., March 2007.
- "The Elite Rural Presence in the Eighteenth-Century English City," presented at the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., Oct. 2003.
- Panel chairperson: "The Scarred City," The 3rd Savannah Symposium "Commemoration and the City," Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2003.
- "Lamp of Truth or Magic Lantern? The Role of Perception and Empiricism in Determining Architectural Truth," presented at the 2nd Savannah Symposium, "Authenticity in Architecture," Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2001.
- "Space in the Painting and Architecture of Le Corbusier," presented at the Cleveland Symposium, Cleveland Museum of Art, April 1999.
- "Fulfilling Rural Desires: The Eighteenth-Century English Urban Landscape as Surrogate Country House," presented at the Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. John's College, University of Oxford, Jan. 1999.
- "And Then There Were Two: Uncovering a Faked Federal Sideboard in the Taft Museum," presented at the seminar "Deceit, Deception, and Discovery: Fakes in the Museum and Marketplace," Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1998.
- "Paradox and Compromise in the Cooperative Housing Schemes of M. H. Baillie Scott and Raymond Unwin," presented at The Ohio State University History of Art Symposium "Art and Community," Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1998.
- "Unity Through Style as Process: Harmony in Late Victorian and Edwardian Interiors," presented at the Carolina's Symposium on British Studies, Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 1998.
- "From Vision to Process: Medievalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Architecture and the Decline of the Visual," presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Medievalism, Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 1998.
- "The Post-WWI English Small House: The Emergence of an Architecture of Duty and Vigilance," presented at the "National Identities" Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, April 1998.
- "The Architecture of Identity: Ruskin, Gandhi, Le Corbusier, and the Maison Sarabai," presented at the Philadelphia Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1998.
Guest lectures
- "Luxury and Commerce: The Architectural Development of Bath and Bristol in the Long Eighteenth Century," English-Speaking Union, Savannah, Ga., Oct. 2009.
- "Town and Country: Seeing Oneself in the Landscapes of Georgian England," lecture delivered at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2009.
- "The Artist at the Georgian Court," lecture and gallery talk delivered at the Earle W. Newton Center for British-American Studies, Savannah, Ga., May 2006.
- "'So That to Us No Thing, No Place is Strange:' Making London Familiar in the Long Eighteenth Century," lecture delivered as part of the Department of Architectural History's Lecture Series, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2004.
- "Federal Furniture at the Taft Museum," lecture delivered at the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 1995.