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Karl Schuler

Architectural history professor emeritus

Education

  • Ph.D., history of art and archeology, New York University
  • M.A., art history, New York University
  • B.A., art history, Humboldt University

Credentials

  • Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 1996–present
  • Adjunct lecturer, Manhattanville College, New York, 1995–96
  • Adjunct lecturer, Kean College, Union, NJ, 1994
  • Adjunct lecturer, CUNY, College of Staten Island, NY, 1989–91

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies Photo Grant, 1994
  • Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993–1994
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992–1993
  • Walter W. S. Cook Fellowship, 1991–1992
  • Amy Briggs Baldwin Scholarship, 1991–1992
  • Shelby and Leon Levy Travel Fellowship, 1989
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1987–1991
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1987

Organizations

  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Coastal Georgia Archaeological Association
  • Tybee Island Historical Society
  • U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
  • Reserve Officers Association

Publications and presentations

  • Contributing author, Buildings of Savannah, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
  • "The Urban Legacy of Volunteer Militias in Savannah's Bull Street Corridor," Hungry for History Lecture Series, Savannah City Hall, July 2016.
  • "Seeking Institutional Identity in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," in Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting: Essays in Honor of Otto Demus, ed. Thomas Dale, 245-256, London: Pinder Press, 2004.
  • "Forts Clinch and Gaines: Anomalies in Third System Philosophy," Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Ga., October 2003.
  • "Chapterhouse Decoration Before 1250," Arte Medievale, no. 1-2, 1997 (published 1999), Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • "A Victorine Biblical Primer in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Research Group on Manuscript Evidence inaugural symposium, New York, Barnard College, April 1995.
  • "A Marginal Menagerie in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Twenty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 1994.
  • Contributing author, The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1993.