Joseph J. Inguanti, Art Department, Art History Area

 
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
 

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

“Picturing Disempowerment: Thoughts on Jacob Riis’ Photograph In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street (1888) and His Book  How the Other Half Lives (1890),” in Picturing Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce and American Portraiture.  New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2004.

“Fur Makes the Man: Daniel Huntington’s Portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Turn-of-the-Century Masculine Ideals,” in Picturing Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce and American Portraiture.  New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2004.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

 “Domesticating the Grave: Italian American Memorial Practices at New York’s Calvary Cemetery,” Markers: Annual Journal of the Society for Gravestone Studies,  2000.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

 
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:

 
BOOK REVIEWS:  

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

May 2002. “Italian American Landscapes of the New York Metropolitan Area.”  Presented at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.  Queens College/ City University of New York.  

October 1999. “Constructing a Community of Power: Idealized Images of Masculinity at the Turn of the Century.”  Presented at the Research and Scholarship Advisory Committee Annual Faculty Research Day.  SCSU, New Haven, CT

  November 1998. “James Daugherty and Depression Era Art.”  Presented at the Stamford Historical Society.  Stamford, CT.

  March 1998: “Domesticating the Grave: Italian American Memorial Practices at New York’s Calvary Cemetery.”  Presented at the Great Lakes American Studies Conference.  Miami University.   Oxford, Ohio.

  October 1997: “Homes for the Dead: Italian American Graves at Calvary Cemetery.”  Presented at the Tenth Annual Symposium on Architectural History.  University of Virginia.   Charlottesville, Virginia.

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WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

SCSU Research Reassigned Time Grant, 2003.

CSU Research Grant, 2000.

SCSU Summer Tech 98 Participant, 1998. 

SCSU Research Reassigned Time Grant, 1998.

CSU Conversations in the Discipline Grant, 1997.

SCSU Curriculum Development Grant, 1993.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Ethnic and vernacular landscapes and gardens; Italian American material culture; American photography.

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Currently researching and writing on landscapes and gardens of Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Chinese Americans and other American ethnic groups in the Northeastern United States.
 

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT/COLLABORATION IN MY RESEARCH:

Senior Seminar participants research American ethnic and vernacular landscapes as well as contemporary American photography.

MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:

 
DISSERTATION TITLE:

Postmodern Photography in America: Advertising and Politics

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:  

Yale University