Sarah J Moore
- Professor, Art
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
Contact
- (520) 621-9330
- ART / MUSEUM, Rm. 110
- TUCSON, AZ 85721-0002
- sjm@arizona.edu
Biography
Moore teaches American and European Art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of, among other writings, Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, and John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art 1880-1915. Her research interests include turn-of-the-twentieth century visual culture of the United States with an emphasis on world's fairs, national identity, institutional history, and art in the public sphere.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Art History
- City University of New York
- M.Phil. Art History
- City University of New York
Work Experience
- School of Art, University of Arizona (2002 - Ongoing)
- School of Art, University of Arizona (1995 - Ongoing)
Awards
- NEH Summer Scholar
- National Endowment for the Humanties, Summer 2018
- Summer Scholar
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2017
- Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship in American Art History at Oxford University
- Terra Foundation for American Art, Fall 2015 (Award Finalist)
- Faculty Professional Development Award
- School of Art, Spring 2015
- Sabbatical leave calendar year 2016
- CFA, Winter 2014
- Promotion to Full Professor
- Spring 2012
- James Anthony Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching
- Spring 2011
- Honors Professor
- Fall 2010
- Superior Teaching Award
- Fall 2010
- Excellence in Teaching Award
- Spring 2007
- Faculty Fellow
- Spring 2007
- Spring 2006
- Vice-President, International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, and American Studies
- Spring 2007
- Spring 2006
- Spring 2005
- Spring 2004
- Provost's Award for Meritorious Achievement in Undergraduate Education
- Spring 2006
- Spring 2005
- Spring 2004
- Sabbatical Leave
- Spring 2004
- Spring 2003
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Thesis
ARH 910 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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American Art
ARH 596N (Spring 2024) -
Independent Study
ARH 599 (Spring 2024) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Spring 2024) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Fall 2023) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Fall 2023) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Spring 2023) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Fall 2022) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Fall 2022) -
Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Fall 2022) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Dissertation
ARH 920 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Fall 2021) -
Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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19th Cent European Art
ARH 417 (Spring 2021) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 517 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Spring 2021) -
Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Spring 2021) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Spring 2021) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Fall 2020) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Fall 2020) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Fall 2020) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2020) -
Preceptorship
ART 391 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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19th Cent European Art
ARH 417 (Spring 2020) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 517 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Spring 2020) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Spring 2020) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Fall 2019) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Fall 2019) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Fall 2019) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Independent Study
ARH 599 (Summer I 2019) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 417 (Spring 2019) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 517 (Spring 2019) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Spring 2019) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Spring 2019) -
Independent Study
ARH 599 (Spring 2019) -
Internship
ARH 593 (Spring 2019) -
Master's Report
ARH 909 (Spring 2019) -
American Art
ARH 596N (Fall 2018) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Fall 2018) -
Independent Study
ARH 699 (Fall 2018) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2018) -
Thesis
ARH 910 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Spring 2018) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Spring 2018) -
Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Spring 2018) -
Independent Study
ARH 599 (Spring 2018) -
Independent Study
ARH 699 (Spring 2018) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Spring 2018) -
Special Topics in Fine Arts
HNRS 195K (Spring 2018) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 417 (Fall 2017) -
19th Cent European Art
ARH 517 (Fall 2017) -
Honors Thesis
ARH 498H (Fall 2017) -
Independent Study
ARH 599 (Fall 2017) -
Independent Study
ARH 699 (Fall 2017) -
Intro To American Art
ARH 319 (Fall 2017) -
Thesis
ARH 910 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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American Art
ARH 596N (Spring 2017) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 429B (Spring 2017) -
American Art-19th Cent
ARH 529B (Spring 2017) -
Internship
ARH 393 (Spring 2017) -
Thesis
ARH 910 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Independent Study
ARH 599 (Summer I 2016) -
Surv West Art:Renais-Mod
ARH 202-SA (Summer I 2016) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 480-SA (Summer I 2016) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 580-SA (Summer I 2016) -
Dissertation
ARH 920 (Spring 2016) -
Internship
ARH 593 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Moore, S. J. (2012). Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. Univeristy of Oklahoma Press.
- Moore, S. J. (2006). John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915. University of Delaware Press.
- Moore, S. J. (2005). John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915. University of Delaware Press.
- , ., & , . (2004). Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
- Moore, S. J. (2004). John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915. University of Delaware Press.
- Moore, S. J. (2004). Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, 1826-1925. National Academy of Design, New York.More infoseveral authors
- Moore, S. J. (2004). Spellbound by Rome: Expatriate Culture in Rome, 1890-1914. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
- Moore, S. J. (2004). The Legacy of the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars: Literary, Legal, and Historical Perspectives. Arizona Bilingual Review/Press, Tempe, Arizona.
- , ., & , . (2003). Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
- Moore, S. J. (2003). John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915. University of Delaware Press.
Chapters
- Moore, S. J. (2009). Performing the National Body: Murals and Pageants at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. In Pageants and Processions: Image and Idiom as Spectacle(pp 183-98). Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Moore, S. J. (2008). Performing the National Body: Murals and Pageants at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. In Pageants and Processions: Image and Idiom as Spectable. Cambridge Scholars Press, United Kingdom.
- Moore, S. J. (2008). Progress and Masculinity at the 1915 Panam-Pacific International Exposition. In Gendering the Fair. University of Illinois Press.
- Moore, S. J. (2007). "Defining Nationalism in the Valle Giulia: American and British Pavilions of Art at the International Exposition in Rome, 1911". In Spellbound by Rome: Expatriate Culture in Rome, 1890-1914(p. 0). American Academy in Rome.
- Moore, S. J. (2006). "Defining Nationalism in the Valle Giulia: American and British Pavilions of Art at the International Exposition in Rome, 1911". In Spellbound by Rome: Expatriate Culture in Rome, 1890-1914. American Academy in Rome.
- Moore, S. J. (2005). "Defining Nationalism in the Valle Giulia: American and British Pavilions of Art at the International Exposition in Rome, 1911". In Spellbound by Rome: Expatriate Culture in Rome, 1890-1914. American Academy in Rome.
Journals/Publications
- Moore, S. J. (2011). "Our National Monument of Art: Constructing and Debating the National Body at the Library of Congress". The Library Quarterly, 337-56.
- Moore, S. J. (2010). "Our National Monument of Art: Constructing and Debating the National Body at the Library of Congress". The Library Quarterly, 337-56.
- Moore, S. J. (2008). Our National Monument of Art: Constructing and Debating the National Body at the Library of Congress. Library Quarterly.
- Moore, S. J. (2007). Our National Monument of Art: Constructing and Debating the National Body at the Library of Congress. Library Quarterly.
Presentations
- Moore, S. J. (2019, Spring). The Great American West is No More: Mapping Progress at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898. Popular Culture Association National Annual Conference. Washington DC: Popular Culture Association.
- Moore, S. J. (2014, Fall). Narrating a New Nation: Nature, Science, and the Discourse of Enlightenment. Ideas and Enlightenment, 18th-century Studies International Conference. Sydney, AUSTRALIA.
- Moore, S. J. (2014, Fall). Shovels and Dirt: Digging a Line of Progress Between Panama and San Francisco. Under Western Skies International Conference. Calgary, CANADA.
- Moore, S. J. (2014, Spring). Tourism and Empire. American Culture Association National Conference. Chicago.
- Moore, S. J. (2012, Fall). Designing the Transnational Empire: America Celebrates its Building of the Panama Canal. International Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2011, Fall). Imagining the World in Miniature: Recreating the Panama Canal in San Francisco. American Studies Association Meeting. Baltimore.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2011, Fall). Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Southwest Art History Conference XXII. Taos.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2010, Fall). "Celebrating the Thirteenth Labor of Hercules". Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America. Mount Royal University, Calgary, CANADA.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2010, Fall). "Performing Manliness and the New American Empire". Canadian Committee on Women's History. Simon Fraser University,Vancouver, CANADA.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2010, Spring). "Manliness and Empire at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition". Nineteenth-Century Studies Association National Conference. University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida.More infoIndividual Presenter
- Moore, S. J. (2009, Spring). Agents of Civilization: Civic Art and the National Body at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. College Art Association Special Session. Los Angeles.
- Moore, S. J. (2009, Spring). Mapping Empire and Masculinities at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. American Culture Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2008, Fall). Imagining the Southwest: Region and Idea. American Studies Association Regional Meeting. Albuquerque, NM.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2008, Spring). Mapping Progress: The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Distinguished Lecture Series, UA. Tucson.More infoKeynote Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2008, Spring). Nineteenth-Century French Art. Tucson Museum of Art Docent Training Program. Tucson.More infoIndividual Presenter
- Moore, S. J. (2008, Spring). Performing the National Body: Pageants and Murals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Museum of Art, Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah.
- Moore, S. J. (2008, Spring). Thirteenth Labor of Hercules: Constructing Progress and Race at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. American Culture Association Annual Conference. San Francisco.More infoIndividual Presenter
- Moore, S. J. (2007, Spring). The March of Progress; Imaging Labor at the Carnegie Institute. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference. Pennsylvania.More infoPanel Speaker
- Moore, S. J. (2006, Fall 2006). "Writing the Region: Questions of Nation and Location". American Studies Associaton Annual Conference.
- Moore, S. J. (2005, Fall 2005). "Our National Monument of Art: Constructing and Debating the National Body at the Library of Congress". American Studies Association Annual Conference. Washington, DC.
- Moore, S. J. (2005, Fall 2005). "Tracing the Edges of Visual Culture". International Colloquium, Puebla, MEXICO. Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, MEXICO.
- Moore, S. J. (2005, Spring 2005). "From Child to Man: Defining the National Body in the United States, 1876-1901". Nineteenth-Century Studies Associaiton Annual Conference. Savannah, Georgia.
- Moore, S. J. (2004, Fall 2003). "Writing Along the Edges of Visual Culture". International Colloquium, Puebla, MEXICO. Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, MEXICO.
- Moore, S. J. (2004, March 2004). "Performing the National Body: Memory and Murals in Progressive-Era America". Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference. St. Louis, Missouri.
- Moore, S. J. (2004, Spring 2003). Performing the National Body: Memory and Murals in Progressive-Era America". Conference: "Fading Image: Visual Culture and the Transformation of Memory". University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA.
- Moore, S. J. (2004, Summer 2003). "Performing Nationalism and Progress: The World's Columbian Exposition, 1893". Art History Graduate Seminar. Richmond, International University of London, ENGLAND, Graduate Program in Art History.
- Moore, S. J. (2003, Fall 2003). "Writing Along the Edges of Visual Culture". International Colloquium, Puebla, MEXICO. Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, MEXICO.
- Moore, S. J. (2003, Spring 2003). Performing the National Body: Memory and Murals in Progressive-Era America". Conference: "Fading Image: Visual Culture and the Transformation of Memory". University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA.
- Moore, S. J. (2003, Summer 2003). "Performing Nationalism and Progress: The World's Columbian Exposition, 1893". Art History Graduate Seminar. Richmond, International University of London, ENGLAND, Graduate Program in Art History.
Reviews
- Moore, S. J. (2009. George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings(p. 17). Association of Historians of American Art Newletter.
- Moore, S. J. (2009. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age(pp 238-39). Material Religion.
- Moore, S. J. (2008. Book Review: Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in Gilded Age. Material Religion.
Others
- Moore, S. J. (2019, Winter). The Panama Canal Zone as a Hybrid Landscape: A Case Study. Ecocriticism and the Anthrooocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture, edited by Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart.More infoEdited scholarly book chapter published by Routledge Press.
Creative Works
- Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Cold Butter: Discourses of Hygiene and Health in the Panama Canal Zone in the Early Twentieth Century; Association of Historians of American Art; September 2017; Panorama; Panorama is the premiere, peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal in American art history and visual culture. This 12,000-word essay pushes my work on world's fair studies into the arena of ecocriticism.
- Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915; University of Oklahoma Press; September 2013
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens; M. E. Sharpe Publications; October; Encyclopdia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Invited essayist.
- Robert Henri; M. E. Sharpe Publications; October; Encyclopdia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Invited essayist
- General Noble Meets Uncle SamL The Double Discourse of Nature at the World's Columbian Exposition; October 2017; Scholarly presentation at American Studies Association National Conference, Chicago
- "Manliness and the New American Empire at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition"; University of Illinois Press; November 2011; Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs; Research article that represents a portion of the research in my forthcoming book
- "Robert Henri" and "Augustus Saint-Gaudens"; M. E. Sharpe; March; Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States; The candidate was invited to write two articles, "Robert Henri" and "Augustus Saint-Gaudens" to a three-volume encyclopedia, Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States.
- The Desert is No More: Mapping Progress at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898; published book; University of Nebraska Press; January 2018; The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899 Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle
- The Great American Desert is No More; University of Nebraska Press; December 2017; Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-99: Art, Anthropology, Culture at the Fin-de Siècle; This essay is part of my larger research program on world's fairs at the turn-of-the-twentieth century.
- On Border Spaces in Art: A Conversation Essay; University of Arizona Press; December 2016; U.S./Mexico Border Spaces: Arts, Built Environments, and Landscapes; This essay grew out of an international symposium, organized by the Border Research Group at the UA, in 2011. The book is forthcoming.
- Kiralfy's Spectable of Nations: Anglo-American Exhibition, 1914, London; April 2017; Popular Culture Association Annual Conference,, San Diego
- “The Arch of the States: Mapping Progress and the American West at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898,” The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 in Context; University of Nebraska Press; April 2016; The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 in Context; This essay is part of an edited book on the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. I was invited to submit and essay to the book and have presented portions of the research at the 19thC Studies Conference in 2015.The book is in press.