Awards

The SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication

The SECAC First Vice President and Chair of the Awards Committee is Jason Guynes who invites nominations and self-nominations for this award to be presented at the annual meeting.

A letter should follow initial nominations explaining the nomination and accompanied by evaluation materials to enable the committee members to reach their decision (such materials may be furnished by either the nominator or the nominee).

Nominations can be mailed to Jason Guynes, Visual Arts Department, University of South Alabama, VAB 168, Mobile, AL, 36688. Deadline: February 1, 2012 (postmark). Nominators will be notified of results on or about August 15, 2012. For questions, contact jguynes@usouthal.edu.

Past Recipients

  1. 2011—Akela Reason, Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
  2. 2010—Kathryn Porter Aichele, Paul Klee, Poet/Painter, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006
  3. 2010—Perri Lee Roberts; Andrew Ladis; Georgia Museum of Art, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections:  The South, Georgia Museum of Art, the University of Georgia, 2009
  4. 2009—Carol Crown, Sacred and Profane:  Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
  5. 2008—Tracy Miller‚ The Divine Power of Nature: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci
  6. 2008—Robert Craig, Bernard Maybeck at Principia College: The Art and Craft of Building
  7. 2007—Amy Kirschke‚ University of North Carolina at Wilmington‚ Art in Crisis: W.E.B Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory‚ Indiana University Press‚ 2006
  8. 2006—Editors of Reading Vasari
  9. 2006—Helen Langa‚ Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York
  10. 2005—Liana Cheney‚ Self-Portraits by Women Painters
  11. 2004—William Levin‚ The Allegory of Mercy at the Misericordia in Florence
  12. 2004—Pamela Simpson & Cynthia Mills‚ Monuments to the Lost Cause
  13. 2003—The Georgia Museum of Art for its body of publications
  14. 2001—Heather McPherson‚ The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth Century France
  15. 2000—Pamela Simpson‚ Cheap‚ Quick and Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials‚ 1870-1930
  16. 1998—Charles R. Mack & Lynn Robertson‚ The Roman Remains: John Izard Middleton’s Visual Souvenires of 1820-1823