Sascha Scott is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. She has a B.A. in anthropology from The Colorado College, a M.A. in art history from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University. Dr. Scott has taught courses at Rutgers University and The Colorado College, and has worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of American History, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Scott’s research focuses on problems at the intersection of art and politics, critically reevaluating what it means for a painting and an artist to be political. She is working on a book manuscript that explores early-twentieth-century representations of American Indians, including paintings and works on paper by John Sloan, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and Awa Tsireh. This project also investigates the many manifestations of primitivism in the United States, and probes the critical category “modernism” as a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion in early-twentieth-century American art. Her current research project has been awarded grants from the Henry Luce Foundation/ American Council for Learned Societies, the American Association of University Women, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Dr. Scott has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including Introduction to Art History, Nineteenth-Century American Art, Twentieth-Century American Art, and the Literature of Art Criticism.

Courses:

Nineteenth Centruy American Art
Twentieth Century American Art
Literature of Art Criticism
Critical Perspective in American Art
The Landscape in American Art