Sascha Scott
Sascha Scott
Associate Professor
CONTACT
Art and Music Histories
308 D Bowne Hall
Email: sscott04@syr.edu
Office: 315.443.5033
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Degrees
Ph.D., Art History, Rutgers University, 2008
M.A., Art History, George Washington University, 2001
B.A., Anthropology, The Colorado College, 1997
Social/Academic Links
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
The Visual Arts of the Americas
19th-Century American Art
20th-Century American Art
Native North American Art
The Landscape in American Art
Cowboys and Indians: The Art and Myth of the American West (co-taught w/Prof. Scott Manning Stevens)
Art History Senior Seminar: Research and Professional Practices
Graduate
Proseminar in Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing
The Literature of Art Criticism
Critical Perspectives in American Art
Picturing Native America
Cowboys and Indians: Art and the Myths of the American West (co-taught w/Prof. Scott Manning Stevens)
Art in the Age of the Airplane
The Art of Native America
Native Modernisms
Sascha Scott is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century American art and Native North American art. In addition to offering survey courses dedicated to these topics, she teaches upper-level courses that expand out from her research, including seminars that explore the intersection of art and politics, art and social justice, and art and the environment. Professor Scott is also a member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies faculty.
Books
In progress, Modern Pueblo Painting: Art, Colonization, and Indigenous Visual Sovereignty.
In progress, O’Keeffe: Unsettling American Modernism .
A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015).
* Awarded a Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant
* Recipient of the Historical Society of New Mexico’s Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award, Significant Contribution to the Field of History, 2016
Articles
Sascha Scott (2020) "Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai‘i? Decolonizing the History of American Modernism", American Art, Volume 34, Number 2, Summer 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/710471
** Awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Patricia and Philip Frost Essay Award for excellent scholarship in the field of American art history
Sascha Scott (March 2020) “Ana-ethnographic Representation: Early Modern Pueblo Painters, Scientific Colonialism, and Tactics of Refusal,” Arts 9, n.1, https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010006
Sascha T. Scott (2019) Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Black Place”, The Art Bulletin, 101:3, 88-114, DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2019.1564178
Sascha Scott (2013) "Awa Tsireh and the Art of Subtle Resistance", The Art Bulletin, 95:4, 597-622, DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2013.10786095
** Awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for a distinguished article published in Art Bulletin by a junior scholar
Sascha Scott (2015) "Unwrapping Ernest L. Blumenschein’s The Gift", American Art, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2011, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/663952
Research Awards
New Foundation for Art History Fellowship, 2024
Patricia and Philip Frost Essay Award, Smithsonian American Art, 2021
Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, 2018-2019
NEH Summer Stipend, summer 2018
Syracuse University Humanities Faculty Fellow, spring 2018
The College Art Association's Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, 2013
Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant, 2013
Clements Research Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Short-term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2011-2012
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship, School for Advanced Research, Summer 2011
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2007-08
American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship 2007-08 (Declined)
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006-07
Teaching Awards
Prize for Excellence in Master’s Level Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 2016
Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University, for “teaching innovation, effectiveness in communicating with student and lasting value of courses,” 2014
Humanities New York Action Grant Awarded for SU Art Museum Exhibition
(Dec 14, 2022)
Scott is awarded Humanities New York Grant to curate art exhibition with Indigenous students at the SU Art Museum.
(June 17, 2021)
The award committee noted that Scott’s essay marks a pivotal moment in the field.
(May 8, 2020)
Students update Indigenous artists’ Wikipedia entries.
Art of Resistance and Resilience
(June 20, 2018)
While researching early 20th century Pueblo painters, Sascha Scott seeks to decolonize academic processes
(May 22, 2018)
Humanities Center Fellows praised for "disciplinary rigor, interdisciplinary creativity, ethical engagement"
Creative Conversations: Faculty Research in the Humanities (Part I)
(May 2, 2018)
Humanistic research thrives at Syracuse, thanks to collaborations with artists, scientists, engineers, librarians
NEH Funding Supports Two Syracuse Projects
(April 20, 2018)
Continued funding critical for humanities research, Gerald Greenberg says
Two A&S Professors to Receive Top Awards for Teaching excellence
(April 28, 2016)
Raina, Scott Honored for Work with Graduate Students
Art Historians Make History at Syracuse
(Jan. 3, 2015)
Professors Luis Castañeda and Sascha Scott make authorial debuts with art books on ’68 Olympics and Native cultures, respectively