Mark A. Russell obtained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He joined the Liberal Arts College in 2002. His scholarship has focused on the history of Imperial Germany, especially its visual culture and merchant shipping, and has appeared in The Historical Journal; Central European History; German History; The International Journal of Maritime History; the Journal of Art Historiography; and the Canadian Journal of History. He has also published two books: Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg, 1896-1918 (New York and Oxford, 2007); and Steamship Nationalism. Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World (London and New York, 2020). He is currently pursuing an interest in the pictorial representation of Southern Italy, especially the city of Matera, in the context of Italian political, social, and cultural history prior to the First World War.
Education
BA (History and Art History), University of Toronto
MA (History), University of Toronto
PhD (History), Cambridge University
ARTH 376 Indigenous Art Survey
ARTH 396: Mexican Muralism and its Legacies
ARTH 613: Seminar on Indigenous Feminism(s)
PhD Supervision -
2021- Dayna Danger Ph.D. Supervisor (in-progress)
2021- Adrian Deveau Ph.D. Supervisor (in-progress)
2019- Alison Ariss Ph.D. Co-chair (in-progress)
M.A. Supervision
2021- Laia K. Nalian in progress Supervisor
2021- Emma Hassencahl-Perley in progress Supervisor
2020- Kristen Prazen completed Supervisor
2018- Paula Booker M.A. Critical Curatorial Studies (first reader)
MFA
2018 Jay Pahre M.F.A. Studio UBC
External Examiner
External Examiner
2020 Suzanne McCleod PhD University of New Mexico. " “MAA-MULTH-NII” PEOPLE WHO CAME FLOATING IN: Analogues between Nuu-chah-nulth and Tlingit with Spanish Colonial Expeditions in the Eighteenth Century."
2018 Bradley Clements M.A. University of Victoria. "Displaying truth and reconciliation: experiences of engagement between Alberni Indian Residential School survivors and museum professionals curating the Canadian History Hall."
Journals
2018 “A Review of Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick.” BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly, no.199 Fall 2018. University of British Columbia.
2012 “Through Their Eyes: Indigenous Curatorial Practices.” Wicazo Sa Review. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. Vol. 27, No. 1, (Spring 2012), pp. 13-20.
Books
2009 “Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe from 1918-1945.” Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Exhibition Catalogue
Book Chapters
2008 “Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic.” Me Sexy: an Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, by Drew Hayden Taylor and Drew Hayden Taylor, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008, pp. 59–86.
Essays in catalogues
2020 “From Prohibition to Revitalization; Indigenous Arts and Cultural Production in British Columbia during the1950s.”commission essay Vancouver Art Gallery - Sumbitted
