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SAADIA N. LAWTON, Ph.D. College Art Association 50 Broadway, New York 10004 212.691.1051 slatwton@collegeart.org

OBJECTIVE: To lead the development, funding, implementation, and assessment of sustainable Visual Arts programs.

EDUCATION: 2015 MPA The City University of New York- Baruch College

2009 Ph.D. Art History, University of Wisconsin- Madison

1996 MPS Africana Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1993 AB History/Education, Clark University, Worcester, MA

AWARDS:

7/2015 Team Winners, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Public Policy Competition

(Role: Statistical Researcher and Analyzer)

7/2015 New York City Mayoral Service Recognition, New York Service, NY

12/2015 Ladies’ Christian Union (LCU) Fund for Women’s Education, New York, NY

9/2014-5/2015 United Postal Services (UPS) Fellow, New York, NY

6/2014-8/2015 National Urban Fellows Program, New York, NY

6/2012 Summer Scholar-in-Residence, New York University Faculty Research Network

10/2006 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Research Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia

06/2006-8/2006 Andrew W. Mellon International Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Research

06/2005-8/2005 Alisa Mellon Bruce Pre-Doctoral Travel Abroad Fellow, National Gallery of Art

TEACHING/ MUSEUM EXPERIENCE:

9/2015- 2/2017 Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP) Project Coordinator

9/2015-12/2015 Harvard Literacy Tutor, Village Academy Middle School Far Rockaway, NY

1/2013-Present Private Educational Consultant: K-12 Adult Literacy, Art History courses,

NYC Common Core, Regents and SAT/ACT Test Preparation.

8/ 2010- 9/ 2012 Assistant Professor and Museum Studies Program Coordinator, Lincoln University, PA

6/2003- 8/2003 Graduate Intern, Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Augusta, GA

1/2002- 5/2002 Teaching Assistant, Art History Department, University of Wisconsin

9/2001- 1/2002 Chipstone Foundation Assistant, University of Wisconsin Slide Library and Chazen Museum

6/2000- 8/2000 Graduate Intern, Robert Goldwater Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art

1/2000-6/2000 Docent, Beads, Body and Soul Exhibition, Chazen Museum

9/1999- 5/2001 Lila-Wallace Research Assistant, Paintings and Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum

1/1999- 5/1999 Lecturer, Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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9/1994- 5/1995 Teaching Assistant, Africana Studies, Cornell University

PUBLICATIONS:

“Identifying with the Kneeling Slave: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Free Black Community, 1827-1839”

(Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, reviewed with conditional acceptance October 2012)

Transforming Pedagogies, Practices, and Products: Innovations for Quality Education in Network: A Journal of Faculty

Development, a NYU Faculty Network publication (January 2012)

“Phillip Mallory Jones,” in 2nd ed. Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the

Americas, ed. Colin Palmer (Farmington, Hills, Michigan: Macmillan, 2006), 3:1193-1194.

AudioGuide, Select Artists (Horace Pippin). Barnes Foundation: Philadelphia, PA (December 2011).

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS/ GUIDED TOURS:

2012 (June) Friday Lecture Series. The Barnes Foundation. Paper: “The Lincoln-Barnes Foundation Partnership:

Formula for Innovation, or a Dream Deferred?”

2012 (April) James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art, Howard University, Washington D.C.. State of the

Art: Addressing the role of Stewardship and Scholarship in Public and Private Collections of African American Art and

Art of the African Diaspora. Paper: “Advancing the Legacy: The Quest to Reposition the Lincoln-Barnes Foundation

Partnership.”

2011 NYU FRN National Symposium: Emerging Pedagogies for the New Millennium, San Juan, PR. “The Tangible

Product:” Panel: Transforming Pedagogies, Practices, and Products: Innovations for Quality Education.

2006 Mid-West American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Paper: “Mirror

Opposites: Kneeling Slave as an Inverted and Subversive Pictorial Device.”

2003 The Morris Museum, Augusta, Georgia. Gallery Talk (Special Exhibition): “The Black Aesthetic in American Art:

A Walking Tour,” The Walker O. Evans African American Art Collection.

2003 Lucy Craft Laney Museum, Augusta, Georgia. Senior Luncheon Lecture Series: “The Rise of African American Art

Historians.”

2001 ASA-ACASA Paper Triennial Meeting, St. Thomas, VI. Paper: “The Haitian Marketplace: Defying Isolation

through Imagery of the Collective.” (Funded by two Travel Grants from ACASA and UW Madison Art History)

2000 Beads, Body and Soul Exhibition, Chazen Museum. Gallery Talk: “Beaded Soul: The Use of Beads for Spirituality

of Latinas,” La Mujer Latina Conference

2000 Beads, Body and Soul Exhibition, Chazen Museum. Gallery Talk: “The Beaded Soul in the African Diaspora,”

National Black Graduate and Professional Students Conference.

SERVICE:

2012-2016 Museum Committee, College Art Association, NYC Headquarters

2011-2012 University Writing Portfolio Committee, Lincoln University

2011-2012 Black Studies Ad-Hoc Committee, Lincoln University

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2007-2013 Executive Board, Delta Outreach and Education Center Inc., Wilmington, DE

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: 09/2014-05/2015 Special Assistant to East Coast Operations Director, St. Bernard’s Project, NY

01/ 2011- 09/ 2012 Acting Chair for Visual Arts Program, Lincoln University, PA

01/ 2011- 09/ 2012 Director the Center of Excellence in Visual Arts, Lincoln University, PA

08/ 2010- 09/ 2012 Coordinator, The Lincoln-Barnes Foundation Partnership, Lincoln University, PA

08/ 2010- 09/ 2012 Editor, Middle States Assessment standards reports 2009-2012, Lincoln University, PA

06/2008-08/2008 Summer Art Camp Instructor, Christina Cultural Art Center, Wilmington, DE

03/2005- 06/2005 Curriculum Developer- Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, and National Museums

8/2002- 8/2004 Coordinator, Office of Engagement for Inclusion and Diversity, UW-Madison Graduate School

6/2002- 5/2003 Teaching Assistant (African Diaspora), Dance Department, University of Wisconsin

10/1996- 8/1999 Assistant Director of Admissions, Enrollment Services, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater

10/1995- 9/1996 Coordinator, Africana Student Services, University of Minnesota-Duluth

LANGUAGES: English: native speaker

Spanish: daily conversation, native reading, and writing knowledge

French: reading knowledge

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