Jarman CV, p. 1
CURRICULUM VITAE
Baird Eustis Jarman
1 North College Street, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057
tel: 507-222-7025
e-mail:
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2005
Department of the History of Art
Dissertation: “Galahad in the Gilded Age: Edwin Austin Abbey’s The Quest of the Holy Grail and the Campaign for Civic Virtue”
Advisors: Alexander Nemerov & Jules David Prown
M.Phil. (in course), 2000; M.A. (in course), 1998
Certificate of Post-Graduate Study, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1996
Department of the History of Art
Program: Art History, Certificate of Post-Graduate Study
Thesis: “The Earls in England: Ralph Earl, James Earl and Loyalist London, 1778-1794”
Advisor: John Gage
M.A.Williams College / Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 1995
Graduate Program in the History of Art
Concentration: American Art & Architecture, 1750-1950
Advisor: Michael J. Lewis
B.A.Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1992
Major: Mathematics
TEACHING POSITIONS
2009-presentAssociate ProfessorCarleton College, Northfield, MN
2004-2009Assistant ProfessorCarleton College, Northfield, MN
2002-2004InstructorCarleton College, Northfield, MN
1999-2001Visiting LecturerYale University, New Haven, CT
1998-1999Head Teaching AssistantYale University, New Haven, CT
1997-1998Teaching AssistantYale University, New Haven, CT
1994-1995Teaching AssistantWilliams College, Williamstown, MA
SUMMER TEACHING POSITIONS
2005-2006InstructorCarleton College, Summer Teaching Institute
1999-2001InstructorBard College, Workshop in Language and Thinking
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2012Visualizing the Liberal Arts Exhibition Grant, Carleton College (Planning Utopia)
2008Opler Study Tour Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians
2008QuIRK Course Development Grant, Carleton College (Modern Architecture)
2007Off-Campus Studies Curriculum Development Grant, Carleton College
2006Visuality Curriculum Development Grant, Carleton College (History of Photography)
2005Class of 1949 Endowed Fund for Faculty Development Grant, Carleton College
2005Bush Fellowship Grant, Carleton College
2005Curriculum Development Fund Grant, Carleton College (Junior Seminar, with Prof. K. Ryor)
2004American Studies Course Development Grant, Carleton College (Frank Lloyd Wright seminar)
2002Luce Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University
2001University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University
2000British Studies Summer Traveling Grant, Yale Center for British Art
1999Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University (university-wide teaching award)
1999Vose Scholarship in American Art History, Copley Society of Boston
1998Bass Writing Fellowship, Yale University (award for teaching writing)
1998Mellon Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, Yale University
1997Mellon Foundation Travel Grant, Yale University
1996Henry S. McNeil Fellowship in American Art, Yale University (four-year scholarship)
1995Clark Fellow Award, Clark Art Institute (highest GPA in graduating class)
PUBLICATIONS
Galahad in Boston: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Quest of the Holy Grail Mural in the Boston Public Library, book manuscript (in progress).
“The Graphic Art of Thomas Nast: Politics and Propriety in Postbellum Publishing,” American Periodicals vol. 20, no. 2 (2010).
“Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” (exhibition review),Design and Culture 2.1 (March 2010).
“A Revolutionary in Milwaukee: The Designs of George Mann Niedecken” (exhibition review),Design and Culture 1.3 (November 2009).
“Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright” (exhibition review),Journal of Modern Craft2.2 (July 2009).
“The Estates of Chicago’s North Shore” SAH News: Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians, October/November 2008.
“Abigail Adams” in Historical Dictionary of Women’s Education in the United States, Linda Eisenmann, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“The Melodramatic Mode of Reportage: Thomas Nast as a Civil War Illustrator”
“Seeing the Civil War,” Midwest Art History Society, Columbus, Ohio, March 21, 2013
“Inventing a Grail Knight for the Progressive Era: Edwin Austin Abbey’s The Castle of the Grail”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, Boston, April 2007.
“Depolarizing American Modernism: 1915-1940” (session co-chair)
College Art Association conference, New York, February 2007
“Feudalism and the White City: Tyrannical Aesthetics at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair”
Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, St. Louis, March 2004
“From Venusburg to Sarras: Decadence and Didacticism in Anglo-American Grail Quests”
Yale Center for British Art, Victorian Studies Colloquium, October 2001
“Galahad in Boston: Edwin Austin Abbey and The Quest of the Holy Grail”
Yale University, Reconstructing the Middle Ages Symposium, March 2000
“The Life & Art of Thomas Smith: Conformity and Individuality in Early New-England Portraiture”
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, June 1998
“The Butterfly & The Brotherhood: James Abbott McNeill Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle”
Cambridge University, Graduate Student Symposium Series, December 1996
TALKS & GALLERY LECTURES
“The History of Northfield’s Railways,” one of three guests on two-hour KYMN Radio broadcast
Northfield Historical Society promotional event, Northfield, MN, March 2011
“Melodramatic Physiognomy: Duchenne de Boulogne’sMecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine”
Modernizing Melodramaexhibition event, Carleton College Art Gallery, February 2009
“Owen Jones and the Alhambra,”Capturing the Alhambra in the 19th Century
Rare Looks lecture series, Carleton College, Gould Library Special Collections, 15 October 2008
“‘A Harrowing Sight’: The Great War, the Crisis of Representation, and the Avant-Garde”
The Winter of the World lecture series, Carleton College, October 2008
“Andrew Wyeth and Magic Realism”
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Carleton College Alumni Lecture, November 2005
“Nineteenth-Century American Self-Portraiture: Trumbull, Sully, Hovenden”
YaleUniversity Art Gallery, “Art a la Carte” Lecture Series, October 2000
“Benjamin West and The Cave of Despair”
Yale Center for British Art, “Art in Context” Lecture Series, February 2000
“Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of American Art”
Clark Art Institute, Graduate Student Lecture Series, May 1995
“Thomas Cole and the American Landscape”
Clark Art Institute, National Gallery of Art Tour Group Lecture, January 1995
COURSES TAUGHT
American Art, 1640-1900
American Art to 1940
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Since 1945
Decadent Dandies & Romantic Reformers: The Anglo-American Aesthetic Movement, 1870-1900
English Art and Architecture on Site (December Break program with two week trip in England)
Historic Preservation
The History of Photography
Introduction to Art History I
Introduction to Art History II
Junior Seminar for Art History Majors (Issues & Methods)
Modern Architecture
Modern Art: 1890-1945
Object Lessons: Material Culture and American History
Planning Utopia: Ideal Cities in Theory and Practice
Romanticism
Ruins & Romantics: English Gothic and Gothic-Revival Art and Architecture
Whistler, Sargent, and Expatriate London
COURSES TAUGHT AS A GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
Art of the Modern Era, 1760-1990(with Thomas Crow/Romy Golan)
The Colonial Period of American History(with John Demos)
Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to Renaissance(with Vincent Scully)
Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Art(with Jonathan Weinberg)
Introduction to Western Art History: Antiquity to the Middle Ages(with Elizabeth McGowan)
Introduction to Western Art History: Renaissance to the Present(with Michael J. Lewis)
MUSEUM & EXHIBITION WORK
2012Planning Utopia course exhibition, City as Organism | City as Machine
Johnson Room, Weitz Center for Creativity, Northfield, MN, June 1-18, 2012
2011Guest Researcher and Writer, The History of Northfield’s Railways
Northfield Historical Society, Northfield, MN, March 24-May 8, 2011
2008Preparatory Course Instructor, Whistler Circles: An Etching Revival Tour of Europe Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
2003-2004Guest Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Reinstallation of the permanent collection of American art in four galleries
2000Guest Curator, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Temporary two-part exhibitionof American paintings in conjunction with History of Art course American Art, 1640-1900
1994 (summer)Director’s Intern, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
1993-1994Curatorial Intern, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
TEACHING WORKSHOPS LED
Presenter: “From A to Viz: Three Years of Visual Learning at Carleton”
Learning & Teaching Center, Carleton College, Nov. 1, Fall 2012
Reading Group Convener: Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence by Peter Burke
Learning & Teaching Center, Carleton College, Fall 2011
“Teaching the Art History Survey”
Teaching Art History, ACM Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, April 2008
Planning Committee, Teaching Art History Conference
ACM Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, April 2008
ARTStor Faculty Workshop
Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College, February 2005
Faculty Development Workshop, Edward R. Murrow High School Art Department, New York
Workshop in Language and Thinking, Bard College, 2001
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Minnesota State Historic Preservation Review Board2008-present
State Historic Preservation Office, architectural historian
Save the Northfield Depot, Steering Committee & Design Committee2010-present
Non-profit organization aimed to preserve 1888 Northfield Depot
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Carleton College:
Faculty Affairs Committee2013-present
New Technology Request Committee2012-2013
Academic Technology Advisory Committee2012-2013
Strategic Planning Committee: Size of the College2011-2012
Judicial Hearing Board2010-2012
Library Committee (chair, 2007-08)2006-2008
Arts Union Classroom CommitteeSpring 2008
Visuality Group2004-2006
Gould Library Internal Review CommitteeWinter 2005
Curator of Library Art Exhibitions Search CommitteeWinter 2005
Vice-President for Budget Finance Search CommitteeSpring 2004
Faculty SecretaryWinter 2004
Image Management Project (Digital Image Working Group)2004-2005
Junior Faculty Affairs Committee2003-2005
American Studies Committee2003-present
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Historians of American Art
College Art Association