Christine Neal
Education
- Ph.D., art history and archaeology, University of Missouri
- M.A., art history, University of Wisconsin
- B.A., art, Bucknell University
Credentials
• Professor, art history, 2002-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
• Visiting professor, art history, Summer 2018, Lion International, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,
• Visiting professor, art history, Summer 2017, SIE, East China Normal University, Shanghai
• Visiting professor, art history, Summer 2015, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing
• Curator of fine arts and exhibitions, 1997-2000, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
• Curator of European and American art, 1991-1997, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO
• Assistant curator of paintings and sculpture, 1988-1991, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
• Curatorial assistant in charge of prints, drawings and photographs, 1985-1987, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Awards, recognitions, and honors
• Research Sabbatical Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2017
• Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2014
• Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2003
Organizations
• Savannah Women’s History Committee, 2015-present
Publications and presentations
• “Sculptor Theodora Alice Ruggles Kitson: A Woman Genius,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 44 (1), Winter 2016.
• “Introductory Essay,” American Masters, Nature’s Banquet: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection and “Introductory Essay,” Small Treasures of 19th Century American Art, SCAD Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, January-March 2010.
• “Sylvia Shaw Judson,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2002.
• “Claude Raguet Hirst: Her [Still] Life Story,” Woman’s Art Journal, Spring 2002.
• “The Still Lifes of Claude Raguet Hirst,” American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2001.
• Essay, “L’art de Kahlil Gibran,” published in the exhibition catalogue for The Garden of the Prophet: Kahlil Gibran, Writer and Painter that accompanied the exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
• Annual Exhibition Competition, Museum News, 1998 and 1999.
• Museum brochures and members’ newsletter articles
Conferences
• Arts in Society, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, “Monuments as Vehicles for Healing and Reconciliation,” 2018.
• Global Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, “Migration of American Women Artists and Architects to Pursue Professional Opportunities,” 2017.
• University of Georgia, Institute for Women’s Studies, Women and Girls in Georgia, “The Three Marys of Savannah,” 2013.
• College Art Association, “New Voices in 19th Century Scholarship,” 2000.
• American Culture/Popular Culture Association annual conference, Southeastern College Art Conference, “Against the Odds: Women Making Their Mark in Art,” 1999.
• Art Institute of Chicago, 32nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, 1998