Sascha Scott
Associate Professor and Director of Art History Graduate Studies
Art and Music Histories
Native American and Indigenous Studies
308 C Bowne Hall
315.443.5033
Research and Teaching Interests
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.
Education
Ph.D., Art History, Rutgers University, 2008
M.A., Art History, George Washington University, 2001
B.A., Anthropology, The Colorado College, 1997
Courses
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
Books
Selected Publications
Books
In progress, Modern Pueblo Painting: Art, Colonization, and Indigenous Visual Sovereignty.
In progress, O'Keeffe Interrupted.
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
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
Selected Awards, Honors, Grants
Research Awards
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
University News
(June 17, 2021)
The award committee noted that Scott’s essay marks a pivotal moment in the field.
(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"
(May 2, 2018)
Humanistic research thrives at Syracuse, thanks to collaborations with artists, scientists, engineers, librarians
(April 20, 2018)
Continued funding critical for humanities research, Gerald Greenberg says
(April 28, 2016)
Raina, Scott Honored for Work with Graduate Students
(Jan. 3, 2015)
Professors Luis Castañeda and Sascha Scott make authorial debuts with art books on ’68 Olympics and Native cultures, respectively