PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: Ph.D. (Art History) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. Dissertation: The Dilemma of the French History Painter, 1870-1914: Jean-Paul Laurens, Paul-Albert Besnard, Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (Chief Adviser: Professor Steven Mansbach) M. A. (Art History) Vanderbilt University, 1979. Master's Thesis: Lewis Mumford and the Development of a Humanized Machine Aesthetic (Adviser: Professor Thomas B. Brumbaugh) B. A. (Art History) New College (Sarasota, Florida), 1974. Senior Thesis: The Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary: From Prehistory to the Council of Ephesus, 431 A.D. (Adviser: Professor Henry B. Graham, IV) Certificate of Attendance, Universita Italiana per Stranieri (Perugia, Italy), 1972.

Dr. Howell at Old Sheldon Church

PUBLIC LECTURES SINCE 1990:

• "Less Cezanne, More Cadillac: Strategies for Constructing a Personal Canon of Imagery in a 20th Century Art Course," Fifth Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York City, October 1991
• "Saving the World, One Student at a Time (UUs in the Classroom): Opening Young Adult Minds," Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, November 1992
• "Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), His Professional Circle, and the Fortunes of the History Painter in Early America," Vanderbilt University, June 1993
• "The Vision of Louis Comfort Tiffany," part of the symposium Tradition and Transformation: A Dialogue on North Carolina Craft at East Carolina Univ., November 1993
• "From Canvas to Silver Screen: Motte/Pastrone and Rochegrosse/Griffith as Examples of the Transformation of Late 19th Century French History Paintings into Early Cinematic Spectacles", Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, University of Kentucky, April 1994
• "In the Shadow of the [Eiffel] Tower: The Underside of 1889," Florence Kiwanis Club, October 1994/ Florence Lions Club, February 1995
• "Peter Paul Rubens: The Screenplay," Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida, February 1995
• "Byzantine Icons in the Monasteries of St. Catherine, Sinai, and Mt. Athos", in conjunction with exhibit of Byzantine icons at Hyman Fine Arts Center, Francis Marion University, March 1995
• "The Rossettis: Brother and Sister Act", Francis Marion University, October 1995
• "Not Such an Impossible Dream: Successfully Linking Cross-Cultural Relationships in the Global Art History Survey", Southeastern College Art Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1995
• "Geritol for Generation X", 9th annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York City, October 1995
• "Slipping the Noose of the French Acad‚mie: Georges Rochegrosse as Salon Rogue, 1880-1900,"
• Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, S.C., October 1996
• "The Eiffel Tower and All That: Tales Your History Teacher Didn't Tell You About 1889," Francis Marion University Alumni Weekend, May 1997
• "Viva L'Italia!", Florence Kiwanis Club, December 1997
• "Smells Like Victory . . : The Vietnam War and American Visual Culture", Honors Colloquium, Francis Marion University, Oct. 1998
• "Judy Chicago's Pantheon of Famous Medieval Women", FMU honors course on Women in the Middle Ages, Nov. 1998
• "Appraising Jack Weatherford's Indian Givers", part of series Sovereign Worlds: Native Peoples Reclaim Their Lives and Heritage North Myrtle Beach Public Library, Feb.1999
• "A Potent Piece of Graphic Design: A Brief History of the Confederate Flag", part of the FMU Critical Issues Symposium: The Confederate Flag: Should We Care? Why We Should Care, Oct. 1999
• "'He Said, She Said': Dissecting Obsession (and Self-Serving Autobiographies) in the Kokoschka Paintings of Alma Mahler", Southeastern College Art Conference, Norfolk, Va., October 1999
• "More Than Mere Bells and Whistles? A Preliminary Field Report on the New Luna-Saskia Digital Image Subscription and Other Mr. Wizard Tools for the Art History Survey," to be given at Southeastern College Art Conference, Louisville, Ky., October 1999

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Dr. Samuel H. Howell, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Art History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(843) 661-1543
showell@fmarion.edu

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