Gillespie, Sarah

Phone: 718-262-2409
Office Location: AC-1A12
sgillespie@york.cuny.edu

Education:

Degree	Institution	Field	Dates
PhD	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	Art History	2006
MA	The George Washington University	Art History	1997
BA	Mount Holyoke College	Art History	1994

Areas of Expertise:

History of Photography
American Art
Intersections of Art and Technology in 19th-20th century American visual culture

Books in Field Of Expertise:

Sarah Kate Gillespie. "One Thing New Under the Sun": The Cross-Currents of Art, Science and Technology in the Early American Daguerreotype, 1839-51. : MIT Press, 2014. .

Articles in Field Of Expertise:

Sarah Kate Gillespie. "John William Draper and the Reception of Early Scientific Photography." History of Photography. 36 July 2012: .

Sarah Kate Gillespie. "The Folktales and Reality of African-American Life in Colonial Brooklyn: The Legend of Martense's Lane." Magazine Antiques. 174 November 2008: 130-137.

Sarah Kate Gillespie. "Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Practice." The Daguerreian Annual. 2008: 86-122.

Chapters in Field Of Expertise:

Bruce Weber and Sarah Kate Gillespie. "William Merritt Chase and the "Wonderful, Human Camera": Photographic Representations of an Artist's Life." Chase Inside and Out: The Aesthetic Interiors of William Merritt Chase. 2004: 90-118.

Laura Morowitz and William Vaughan, eds.. "The Visionists as an Artistic Brotherhood." Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century. 2000: 122-136.

Reviews in Field Of Expertise:

"Review of Nakki Goranin, American Photobooth in History of Photography" February 2011: 91-92.

"Review of Sarah Greenough et. al., The Art of the American Snapshot (2007) and Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography (2007), in History of Photography 33" February 2009: 99-101.

 

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances:

" Mechanical Imitation in the Painting and Daguerreotypes of Samuel F. B. Morse " October 2021: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

" One Thing New Under the Sun: Morse, Draper, and the Cross-Currents of Early American Photography " November 2011: Inventing American Photography symposium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

" Technology versus Art: the Daguerreotype's Confounding Status in Philadelphia: 1839-45 " March 2011: The Library Company of Philadelphia.

" Proof Photographic: John William Draper and the Scientific Daguerreotype " February 2010: College Art Association Annual Conference.

" The Devil Went Down to Brooklyn: Realities and Folktales of African-American Life in Dutch Colonial Brooklyn " September 2009: Brooklyn Museum of Art.

" Samuel F. B. Morse's "Great Revolution in Art": Photography and the National Academy of Design " April 2009: The Durand Society, National Academy of Design.

" Democracy, Technology, and Changing Ideas of "Americanness": the Case of Samuel F. B. Morse " November 2006: Univeristy of Virginia and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

" "I Never Was a Painter": Samuel F. B. Morse, the Daguerreotype, and the Ascension of American Technology " October 2006: Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference.

" "Rembrandt Perfected": the Daguerreotype Practice of Samuel F. B. Morse " May 2006: Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures Series.

" Envisioning the Golden Dawn: The Visionists as an Artistic Brotherhood " February 1998: College Art Association Annual Conference.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:

Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution: June-August 2011.

Visiting Research Fellow in Visual Culture, The Library Company of Philadelphia/The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: July 2010.

Drawn to Art Visiting Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA: May 2007.

Predoctoral Fellowship, joint appointment between the National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: September 2005-May 2006.

Predoctoral Fellowship, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution: July-August 2005.

Terra Summer Residency, Musee d'art Americain, Terran Foundation for American Art, Giverny France: June-August 2004.