Nathan Rees, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art: Art History & University Core
Humanities Building - Room 226
Nathan Rees [www.nathankrees.com] joined the University of West Georgia in 2016. His research explores the intersections of race and religion in the United States. He has published and presented on topics including modernist appropriations of Indigenous America, monuments to Western settlement, and ecocritical approaches to landscape painting. His book, Mormon Visual Culture and the American West (Routledge, 2021), situates the visual culture of Mormonism in the social contexts of the nineteenth-century Utah Territory. A secondary research area focuses on the visual and material culture of American hymnody, especially the shape-note singing traditions of the Southeast. His article, "The Sacred Harp 'Minutes Book': Centering Tradition for an Expanding Community in the Digital Age," appeared in American Periodicals in 2020. Dr. Rees is also active in community engagement, serving as volunteer curator of the Sacred Harp Museum in Carrollton, Georgia.
- Ph.D., Art History, University of Maryland, 2010
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art)
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I)
- ART-2202 (History of Western Art II)
- ART-3210 (Non-Western Art)
- ART-3240 (Ital Renaissance or Baroque Ar)
- ART-3250 (18th or 19th Century Art)
- ART-3260 (American Art)
- ART-3270 (Pre-World War II Modernism)
- ART-3275 (Art Since 1945)
- ART-4290 (Modernist Criticism)
- ART-4295 (Special Topics in Art History)
- ART-4298 (Senior Capstone in Art History)
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2)
- HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium: Inquiry)
- HONR-3102 (Jr Honor Colloquium:Engagement)
Fall 2024 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: 03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (History of World Art I) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3275 (Art Since 1945) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2024 Sections
- ART-3210 (Art of the Indigenous Americas) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- ART-2202 (History of World Art II) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2202 (History of World Art II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HONR-3102 (Jr Honr Colloquium: Engagement) Section: 25H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3240 (Ital Renaissance or Baroque Ar) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4298 (Senior Capstone in Art History) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2202 (History of World Art II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HONR-3102 (Jr Honor Colloquium:Engagement) Section: 25H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4290 (Modernist Criticism) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2023 Sections
- ART-3210 (NonWstArt: Art of Indig.Amer.) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium: Inquiry) Section: 26H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (History of World Art I) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3260 (American Art) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4298 (Senior Capstone in Art History) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: 91 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (Hist of Wstrn Art:Ancient-Med) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (Hist of Wstrn Art:Ancient-Med) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3210 (Art of the African Diaspora) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2022 Sections
- ART-3210 (NonWestrn Art: Art Indigenous) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4295 (Special Topics in Art History) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4298 (Senior Capstone in Art History) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2202 (History of Western Art II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3250 (18th or 19th Century Art) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4290 (Modernist Criticism) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2021 Sections
- ART-3210 (Non-Western Art) Section: 1DW external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4295 (Special Topics in Art History) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- ART-1201 (Introduction to Art) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2202 (History of Western Art II) Section: 01B external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2202 (History of Western Art II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3275 (Art Since 1945) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I) Section: 1AB external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-2201 (History of Western Art I) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HONR-3102 (Jr Honor Colloquium:Engagement) Section: 25H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-3270 (Pre-World War II Modernism) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ART-4299 (Sr Capstone in Art History 2) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Mormon Visual Culture and the American West [View Publication External Resource]
Framing Colonization for Mormon Youth in the Juvenile Instructor [View Publication External Resource]
The Sacred Harp “Minutes Book”: Centering Tradition for an Expanding Community in the Digital Age [View Publication External Resource]
This is the Place, Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria: Monuments to Settler Constructions of History [View Publication External Resource]
Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness [View Publication External Resource]
C. C. A. Christensen, Joseph Preaching to the Indians, 1878 - an Object Narrative [View Publication External Resource]
Where ‘Deep Streams Flow, Endlessly Renewing’: Metaphysical Religion and ‘Cultural Evolution’ in the Art of Agnes Pelton [View Publication External Resource]