Andrew Graciano
Election
Position
Name
Andrew Graciano
Candidate statement
Andrew Graciano is Professor of Art History (and Medical Humanities and Culture) at the University of South Carolina. He is particularly interested in the relationships among art, science, economics, society, and politics in the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and elsewhere. It is for this reason that the scope of his research goes beyond that of traditional art history and incorporates other histories, including especially those of medicine and natural philosophy (science in its broadest sense). The interdisciplinary methodology of Graciano’s research reflects his academic up-bringing, having worked closely with Professor Christopher Johns (Vanderbilt, Art History) and Professor Karen Parshall (U. of Virginia, History and Mathematics).
Specific research interests include: the history of anatomical study in artistic training; the Felix Meritis Maatschappij (Happiness through Merit Society) of Amsterdam; Charles Howard Hodges and Dutch official portraiture in the early 19th century; Africa and the Middle East in European ‘Orientalist’ paintings; and artistic representations of nascent national identity in 19th-century Puerto Rico.
Graciano is currently Vice Chair of the Latino Hispanic Faculty Caucus here at USC, and served (2018-2022) as Chair of the University Faculty Advisory Committee (a Faculty Senate Committee), which liaises between the Provost’s Office and the Faculty on matters of policy. He has been co-leader of the Mid-Career Faculty Development Program (2021-present), which has gone so well that the Provost’s Office wants him and his co-lead partner to take it university-wide in 2024-2025. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies for 13 years (2009-2021, 2023-present) and was Associate Director (Associate Chair) of SVAD for 10 years (2011-2021), and now chair for the to-be-renamed SVAD DEI Committee.
An active ASECS member, he served for two years on the Program Committee (including as Program Committee Chair), and served as a member and then chair of the Jam Pot Committee.
Specific research interests include: the history of anatomical study in artistic training; the Felix Meritis Maatschappij (Happiness through Merit Society) of Amsterdam; Charles Howard Hodges and Dutch official portraiture in the early 19th century; Africa and the Middle East in European ‘Orientalist’ paintings; and artistic representations of nascent national identity in 19th-century Puerto Rico.
Graciano is currently Vice Chair of the Latino Hispanic Faculty Caucus here at USC, and served (2018-2022) as Chair of the University Faculty Advisory Committee (a Faculty Senate Committee), which liaises between the Provost’s Office and the Faculty on matters of policy. He has been co-leader of the Mid-Career Faculty Development Program (2021-present), which has gone so well that the Provost’s Office wants him and his co-lead partner to take it university-wide in 2024-2025. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies for 13 years (2009-2021, 2023-present) and was Associate Director (Associate Chair) of SVAD for 10 years (2011-2021), and now chair for the to-be-renamed SVAD DEI Committee.
An active ASECS member, he served for two years on the Program Committee (including as Program Committee Chair), and served as a member and then chair of the Jam Pot Committee.