109 Pickard Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211-1420   phone: 573-882-6711   fax: 573-884-5269   email: aha@missouri.edu

Kristin Schwain

Associate Professor
American Art and Architecture
Ph.D., Stanford University

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-882-3366
fax: 573-884-5269
email: Schwain at missouri dot edu

Teaching

• AHA 2850: Introduction to Americal Visual Culture (Writing Intensive)
• AHA 3830: American Art and Culture, 1500-1820
• AHA 3840: American Art and Culture, 1820-1913
• AHA 267: American Art and Culture, 1913-present
• AHA 4820/7820: American Material Culture
• AHA 7005: Topics: American Popular Culture
• AHA 7005: Topics: American Photography
• AHA 8800: Seminar in American Art: The Material Culture of Religion
• AHA 8800: Seminar in American Art: Visual Culture

Research

I specialize in the history of American art. In addition to general surveys of American art, architecture, photography, and material culture that span 1500 to the present, I teach advanced courses on turn-of-the-century American art and culture, American popular culture, and the relationship between art and religion in American and global contexts. My intellectual and research interests include: the history of photography; African-American art; American portraiture and the construction of identity; and more generally, reception studies, theories of vision, and historiography. My current book project examines the relationship between American art and religion at the turn-of-the-century, and the role religious beliefs, practices, and interpretive methods played in the construction of modern aesthetic experience.

I have been supported by the Stanford Humanities Center,the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Pew Program in Religion and American History, The Erasmus Institute of the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Missouri Research Board.

Wind from the Sea
Andrew Wyeth
(detail)