Professor of Art History

Description

SCAD students navigate historical and contemporary expressive practices through critical encounters with art, artifacts and other forms of cultural production. In art history coursework, students gain a curiosity for creative inquiry, invention, critical thinking and visual analysis. These skills propel them into major-specific disciplines where they go on to write Emmy-winning sitcoms, design products and services recognized by Red Dot Awards and create written work honored by the Association of Writers and Writing Program.

You have an opportunity to join the SCAD team of more than 40 art history professors to provide students with the expertise needed to investigate and explain the complex relationships between context and cultural production. Working with this community of diverse and highly credentialed art history faculty, the ideal candidate has the ability to motivate students to think creatively and critically in an active and engaging learning environment.

You and your students will have access to the nation’s largest physical library holdings among art, design and music schools, including rare, valuable and significant works, as well as exclusive entrée to objects of study at the SCAD Museum of Art, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film and the Lacoste History Museum. Enriching lecture series, symposia and events invite visiting scholars and artists from across the globe to engage in creative discourse. Recent guests have included Carlos-Cruz-Diez, Alfredo Jaar, Carrie Mae Weems, Philippe de Montebello, Jerry Saltz and Louis Menand, to name a few. This global network of libraries, museums, galleries, signature events and more provides unparalleled opportunities for students to explore the emergence of innovative forms of expression and engage in scholarly research.

Named among the best small cities in the U.S by Condé Nast Traveler, Savannah offers an inviting climate and a culturally rich downtown, providing a real-world workshop for the study of art and design. The university blends seamlessly into the Savannah landscape and provides students with a dynamically layered learning environment in which to thrive.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in art history or a related field
• University-level teaching experience
• Specialty in the intersection of contemporary art, media and technology
• Experience with study devoted to visual culture, art criticism, new media, photography and film preferred