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Robert Douglass Russell, Jr. Curriculum vitae Department of Art History 67 Warren St. College of Charleston Charleston, S.C. 29403 66 George Street 843/469-8441 Charleston, South Carolina 29424 843/953-6352 [email protected] Education Ph.D., Art History, Princeton University, 1988 MFA, Art History, Princeton University, 1984 BA, Art, Southern Illinois University, 1981 Employment 1994-present: Addlestone Professor, Department of Art History, College of Charleston. (assistant professor:1994-7; associate professor: 1997-2006; professor: 2006), Co-director, Program in Historic Preservation and Community Planning: 1998-2002; Director: 2002-present. Acting Co-Director, Clemson/College of Charleston Joint Graduate Program in Historic Preservation: 2006-7; Co-Director: 2007-present. 1989-1994: Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Dearborn. 1986-1989: Assistant Professor of Art History, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Publications Books William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architecture, submitted. Cornerstones of Justice: the County Courthouses of South Carolina, submitted to University of South Carolina Press. Memphis. An Architectural Guide (with E.J. Johnson), Knoxville, TN (University of Tennessee Press), 1990. Articles & Chapters “The Planning and Failure of Cairo, Illinois, 1838-1840.” Journal of Illinois History, 13, 3, Autumn 2010, 189-210. ‘Gabriel Manigault,’ entry for Grove Encyclopedia of Art, 2009. ‘Beale Street, Memphis,’ for Tourist Nation: A Compendium of American Destinations Forty Places That Define the Trade, J. Mark Souther and Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Editors, in press. “Authenticity, Abstraction and the Abolition of Time: Three Preservation Charters in the 20th Century,” in The Venice Charter Revisited. Modernism, Conservation and Tradition in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2008, 99-106. “’An ornament to our city’: The Creation and Re-creation of the College of Charleston’s Campus, 1785-1861.” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107, 2 (April, 2006), 124-146. ‘Bergamo,’ in Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, C. Kleinhenz, ed. New York, Routledge, 2004. “Unrealized Visions: Medford and the City Beautiful Movement,” in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 102, 2, (Summer, 2001), 196-209. Expanded critical and historical Introduction (including the Carolina Lowcountry and Savannah) for Complete Charleston, 2nd ed. By Truman and Margaret Moore, Charleston, 2000. “Buildings, Manners and Laws. The Charleston Single House as Definer of Urban Form and Shaper of City Life,” in Carolina Planning, 24, 2 (Summer, 1999), 11-19. “Citadels of Justice. The Courthouses of Jackson County,” in Southern Oregon Heritage Today, 1, 4 (April, 1999), 8-13. Critical and historical introduction for Complete Charleston, by Truman and Margaret Moore, Charleston, S.C., 1997. Il Palazzo della Ragione di Bergamo tra incendi e restauri, in Archivio Storico Bergamasco, n.s. 1, April, 1995, 6-26. “A Similitude of Paradise. The city as Image of The City,” in The Iconography of Heaven (EDAM monograph series, Clifford Davis, ed.), Kalamazoo, MI, 1994, 146-161. “Il Palazzo della Ragione riconsiderato,” in Archivio Storico Bergamasco, XI, 1, 1991, 7-34. Occasional articles on architecture and urban design in the Charleston Post & Courier and the (Charleston) Guardian. Reviews: John S. Sledge, The Pillared City: Greek Revival Mobile. Photography by Sheila Hagler. (University of Georgia Press, 2009) for The Journal of Southern History, forthcoming Gene Waddell, Charleston Architecture: 1670-1860, Charleston, S.C., 2003, for South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106, n.1 (January 2005), 60-63. Carl Lounsbury, From Statehouse to Courthouse. An Architectural History of South Carolina’s Colonial Capitol and Charleston County Courthouse (Columbia, S.C., 2001), for The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winter, 2002 (XXVII, n.2), 77-92. Extended review article in AVISTA Forum Journal, based on the article From Episcopal to Communal Palaces: Places and Power in Northern Italy (1000-1250), (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 54, n.2, June, 1995, 175-185). Jean Bony, French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries, for The Christian Science Monitor, 6 April, 1984. Talks Sept. 2010 “Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. The Struggle for the Livable City in Charleston, South Carolina,” Paper given at the 2010 annual conference of the European Association of Urban Historians, Ghent, Belgium May, 2010 ‘Building out Back of Beyond. Big-City Construction on the Southern Frontier in the 1830s,’ Paper presented at the Construction History Society of America National Conference, Philadelphia, May 20-22 Oct. 2009 “'Make it Better than it Was': Poor Design and New Problems in Cemetery Restoration,” National Cemetery Preservation Summit in Nashville, sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. Nov. 2008: “William Strickland and the Creation of a National Architecture,” Public talk given for the Historic Richmond Foundation, Richmond, VA. July, 2008: “Enron on the Mississippi: The Planning and Failure of Cairo, Illinois, 1838-1840,” talk given at the International Planning History Society conference in Chicago, July, 2008. Feb. 2007: Moderator of the session ‘Public Savannah,’ for the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Savannah Symposium, Savannah, Georgia. Nov. 2006: “Authenticity, Abstraction and the Abolition of Time: Three Preservation Charters in the 20th Century,” The Venice Charter Revisited Conference: Modernism and Conservation in the Postwar World, Venice. Sept. 2006: "Gold and Stone: The Southern Mints of William Strickland," Annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, Auburn, AL. Sept. 2006: “An ‘Imperishable Commemoration’: William Strickland and the Construction of George Washington’s Tomb,” for Ritual Spaces and Places. Memory and Commemoration in 19th-Century America: 10th Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I. Feb. 2006: “The Architecture of Politeness: Form and Meaning of the Charleston Single House,” Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 2005: ‘Charters and Historic Preservation,’ Education and Preservation Council meeting, Council for Architecture and Urbanism, Charleston, S.C. October 2004: ‘Holy City, Holy Forms. Church Building in Charleston.’ For the symposium ‘Sterling Faith,’ Charleston Museum, Charleston, S.C. March 2004: “Buildings, Manners and Laws. The Charleston Single House.” Charleston Antiques Symposium, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. March 2003: “The Gifted Amateur. Gabriel Manigault and Charleston Architecture around 1800.” Lecture give for the Charleston Museum on the 200th anniversary of the construction of the Joseph Manigault house. July 2002: “Oil and Water – Historic Structures and Modern Materials.” National Meeting of the American Council of Construction Educators, Charleston, South Carolina. Oct. 2001: “An Uncommon Approach to the Common Temple. Robert Mills’ Innovations in South Carolina Courthouse Design.” Joint annual meeting of the Southeast College Art Conference and the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Columbia, South Carolina. Nov. 2000: “The Topography of Refinement: Civic Wealth and the Changing Townscape of 18th-Century Charleston.” The Historic Deerfield/Wellesley College Symposium: ‘The Pursuit of Refinement in America.’ March, 2000: “A Life of Ease and Refinement: Plantation Life in Colonial South Carolina.” Charleston Antiques Symposium, College of Charleston. Sept. 1999: “Preservation in Charleston.” Talk given at the symposium: A Tale of Two Cities: Historic Preservation in Augusta and Charleston, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA. Feb. 1999: “Now You See it, Now You Don’t. Charleston and its ‘Grand Modell’ Square. The Savannah Symposium on the City Square, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. Jan. 1999: “Old Charleston and New Urbanism.” Talk given at the Charles and Shirley Weiss Urban Livability Symposium: Traditional Urbanism Reconsidered: Traditional Urbanism, New Urbanism and Urban Livability at the fin de siecle. The department of City and regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. May 1998: “Architectural Continuity and Discontinuity from the Comune to the Signoria in Piacenza.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 1998: “The ‘Common Temple’: County Courthouses in the Midwest.” School of Architecture, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. March 1997: “Bowling Alone and other Idiocies.” Quarterly meeting of the Preservation Society of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. Oct. 1996: Organized and chaired two sessions devoted to “The City as a Work of Art” at the annual meeting of the Southeast College Art Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Oct.1995: “Versailles on the Mississippi. The Dixie Home and Public Housing in Memphis in the Depression.” American Planning History/ Urban History Association National Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee. Oct. 1995: “How Quickly They Forget: Lombardy, Florence and the Medieval Loggia dei Lanzi.” Southeast Medieval Association annual conference, Charleston, South Carolina. June 1993: “Straying from the Truth. Architecture and the Search for a ‘Useable Past.’” CIVA Conference, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania. May 1993: “’A Similitude of Paradise.’ The city as Image of The City