Past AHAA-Sponsored CAA Sessions

2013
The Body of the Artist and the Artist as Body in American Artistic Practice
Chairs: Robin Veder, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College, with participants Lauren Lessing, Colby College Museum of Art; Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College; Keely Orgeman, Boston University; Colby Chamberlain, Columbia University; Discussant: Robin Veder, Pennsylvania State University

The Art History of American Periodical Illustration.  Chairs: Jaleen Grove, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Doug B. Dowd, Washington University in St. Louis; with participants Page Knox, Marymount Manhattan College;  Douglas B. Dowd, Washington University in St. Louis; Jarrod Waetjen, Northern Virginia Community College; Jennifer A. Greenhill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Discussant: Michele H. Bogart, State University of New York at Stony Brook

 

2012

Ideology, Industry, and Instinct: The Art of Labor. Chairs: Wendy Katz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Brandon K. Ruud, Sheldon Museum of Art; with particpants John Ott, James Madison University; Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago; and Beth Finch, Colby College Museum of Art

American Symbolism. Chair: Erika Schneider, Framingham State University; with participants Hélène Valance, Université Paris Diderot;
Emily W. Gephart, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Lucy L. Bowditch, College of Saint Rose, and discussant Michelle Facos, Indiana University

2011

Color and Nineteenth-Century American Painting. Chair: Peter John Brownlee, Terra Foundation for American Art; with particpants Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Adrienne Baxter Bell, Marymount Manhattan College; Michael Rossi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthew Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis; Maggie M. Cao, Harvard University; and discussant David Bjelajac, George Washington University

(Re)Collecting Memory: Oral History as Testimony of Lived Experience. Co-chairs: Melanie Herzog, Art Dept., Edgewood College and Frances Pohl, Dept. of Art and Art History, Pomona College; with participants Avis Berman, Independent Scholar; Liza Kirwin, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Theresa Leininger-Miller, Associate Professor, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati; Margo Machida, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Connecticut

2010
Rethinking Consumption in the History of American Art, chaired by John Ott, James Madison University with participants Wendy Katz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Kathleen Adair Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sandra Zalman, University of Houston; Frances Pohl, Pomona College; and Sybil Gohari, University of Maryland, College Park

From Parlor to Print Room to Classroom: Approaches to Teaching Historic American Visual Culture, chaired by Georgia Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, American Antiquarian Society, with participants Anne Verplanck, Independent Scholar; Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of Art History, Towson University; Kevin Muller, Adjunct Instructor, Chabot College; Kristina Wilson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Clark University; Ross Barrett, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Ellen G. Landau, Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University

2009
Agents of Civilization: Civic Art and the National Body at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, chaired by Sarah Moore, University of Arizona, with participants Annelise K. Madsen, Stanford University; Evie Terrono, Randolph-Macon College; Rachel Iannacone, University of Minnesota; and Kate Elliott, University of Iowa, and discussant Sally Webster, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Crosstalk: The Pedagogy of the Object in the Academy and in the Museum, chaired by Andrea Pappas, Santa Clara University, with participants Marian Wardle, Brigham Young University Museum of Art; John S. Weber, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; and Sarah Vure, Long Beach City College

2008
The Impermanent Collection, chaired by Laura Katzman, James Madison University and Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Vivien Green Fryd, Vanderbilt University, with participants Laura Katzman, James Madison University; Vivien Green Fryd, Vanderbilt University; and Alan Wallach, The College of William and Mary

Pedagogies, Texts, Assignments: Teaching the American Art Survey, chaired by Justin Wolff, Roanoke College, with participants John Davis, Smith College; Mishoe Brennecke, Sewanee, The University of the South; and Justin Wolff, Roanoke College

2007
The Object in Its Cultural Context - Promises and Perils, chaired by Kathleen Pyne, University of Notre Dame, with participants Alexander Nemerov, Yale University; Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania; Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Research Center; and Sylvia Yount, High Museum of Art

Troubling That 1945 Border Again: Chronology, Geography, and Interpretation in American Art, chaired by Ellen Wiley Todd, George Mason University, with participants Margaret C. Conrads, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Stephanie Fay, University of California Press; and Frances Pohl, Pomona College

2006
Putting America into American Impressionism: Unraveling the Terminology of Limitation, chaired by Will South, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, with participants Wendy Greenhouse, Suzanne L'Heureux, Julia Rosenbaum

When Mice Roar: The Relevance of Small Museums, chaired by W. Douglass Paschall, Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, with participants Michelle Robinson, Lise Dubé, and Brian T. Allen

2005
Artists and the Left: a Long Term View, chaired by Anthony Lee, Mount Holyoke College, and Andrew Hemingway, University College, London, with participants James Oles, Philip Glahn, Richard Meyer, and Rachel Sanders; Sally Stein, respondent

Art and Visual Culture of the U.S. South, chaired by Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh, with participants Maurie McInnes and Andrew Walker

2004
American(ist) Agenda, chaired by Wanda Corn, Stanford University, and John Davis, Smith College, with participants Wendy Bellion, Derrick Cartwright, Richard Meyer, and Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw

Postcolonialism, Globalization, and American Art, chaired by Bill Anthes, University of Memphis, and Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College, with participants Alan Braddock, LaNitra Walker, Joan Kee, and Jennifer Gonzales

2003
'Strangers in the Night'?: Case Studies in Visual Culture and American Art History, chaired by Angela Miller, Washington University, with participants Jochen Weirich, Jasmine Alinder, and Jason Weems

Reframing American Art for the Public; Current Ideas about Permanent Reinstallations, chaired by Teresa A. Carbone, Brooklyn Museum of Art, with participants Julie Aronson, Pete Mauro, Daniel A. Seidall, Gerald W.R. Ward, and Sylvia Yount

2002
Religion and American Art History, chaired by Sally M. Promey, University of Maryland

Essentialism, Race, and Identity in Early 20th-Century American Art, chaired by Jacqueline Francis, University of Michigan, with participants Elizabeth Hutchinson, Samantha Baskind, Donna M. Cassidy, Erica Moiah James, and Amy Lyford

2001
Braving (and Bridging) the Great Divide: The Academy and the Museum, Sylvia Yount, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, chair, with participants Andrew Walker, Diana L. Linden, and Sally Anne Duncan

Current Research on the Visual Culture of Empirical Science in the Americas, from the Renaissance to the Present Day, chaired by Amy Meyers, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and Therese O'Malley, Center for Advanced Studies, National Gallery of Art, with participants Michael P. Gaudio, Jill H. Casid, Bridget Goodbody, and Katherine E. Manthorne; Alex Nemerov, respondent

2000
The Commodity Politics of Academic Exchange: American Art History, American Studies and Visual Culture, chaired by Shirley Wajda, Kent State University, with participants Kirsten Swinth, Maren Stange, and Angela Miller

1999
American Art in the International Context, chaired by Barbara Groseclose, Ohio State University, with participants Richard J. Powell, Andrew Hemingway, and Susan Grant

1998
What's for Sale? American Art History and the Market for American Art, chaired by Sarah Burns, with participants Dewey Mosby, J. Grey Sweeney, and Eric Rosenberg

1997
Rethinking African-American Place in the Formation of American Art History, chaired by Barry Gaither, Museum of the National Center of African-American Artists, with participants Floyd Coleman, Jontyle Robinson, and Alvia Wardlaw

1996
The Problems Inherent in Teaching American Art Survey, chaired by Margaretta M. Lovell, University of California, Berkeley, with participants Derrick Cartwright, Elizabeth Johns, and Karen Lucic

1995
The Roles of Theory in the Study of U.S. Art History, chaired by Ann Gibson, SUNY Stony Brook, with presenter Michael Leja and respondents Elizabeth Sussman, Beryl Wright, and Alan Wallach

Corrections and additions to this list are welcome: please send them to Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf.