Gillespie, Sarah
- Overview
- Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
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 Full-Time Academic Experience
Institution Rank Field Dates York College, CUNY Assistant Professor Art History July 2008-present Part-Time Academic Experience
Institution Rank Field Dates College of Staten Island, CUNY Graduate Teaching Fellow Art History 2002-2003 Fordham University Adjunct Assistant Professor Art History 2002-2003 Non Academic Experience
Place of Employment Title Date The Brooklyn Historical Society Curator of Fine Arts September 2006-May 2008 Berry-Hill Galleries Research/Curatorial Associate February 2000-June 2004 Employment Record At This Institution
Publications In Field Of Expertise
- Books:
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. .
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- Articles:
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.
- Proceedings:
- Refereed Proceedings
- Non-Refereed Proceedings
- Refereed Proceedings
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- Chapters in Books:
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.
- Government Reports or Monographs
- Book Reviews:
"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.
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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.
Work In Progress
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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.
Grants-In-Aid
Institutional Service
- Service to the Department
- Service to the School
- Service to the College
- Service to the Graduate Center
- Service to the University
- Service to the Department
Offices Held In Professional Societies
Other Professional Activities And Public Service
Teaching Activities At This Institution
- Courses Taught (List)
FA 104 Introduction to Fine Art FA 297 History of Photography FA 303 Introduction to Film FA 325 Women and Art FA 398 African-American Art FA 393 American Art to 1913 FA 490 Twentieth-Century Art FA 479 Art and Sound of Video Games FA 499 Independent Research in Art History - New courses/programs developed (list):
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