Alan C. Braddock
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Delaware
M.L.S., University of Maryland, College Park
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Grinnell College
Alan C. Braddock has been appointed Senior Fellow in residence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., for the 2011-12 academic year, so he will be on leave from Temple during that time. During his fellowship, he will complete a new book titled Gun Vision: The Ballistic Imagination in American Art, exploring the relationship between art and arms, seeing and shooting, in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In July 2011, before beginning his fellowship in Washington, Dr. Braddock served as a core faculty member in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “Picturing John James Audubon," directed by Dr. Christoph Irmscher at Indiana University. Dr. Braddock participated in a previous version of this summer institute in July 2009.
At Temple, Professor Braddock teaches courses in the history of American art and visual culture from the colonial period to the present. His scholarly research focuses on issues in realism, modernity, and the relationship between art and environmental history. He is the author of Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (University of California Press, 2009), for which the press awarded him an Ahmanson Foundation Publication Grant. As of November 2010, the book has been reviewed ten times (see, for example, CAAReviews, Journal of American History, Journal of American Culture). Dr. Braddock is also the co-editor with Christoph Irmscher (Indiana University) of and contributor to the book A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History (University of Alabama Press, 2009), which was recently reviewed in American Quarterly and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment.
Dr. Braddock is the author of articles on a variety of topics in journals such as American Art, American Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and Winterthur Portfolio, among others. His essay "Christian Cosmopolitanism: Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Beginning of the End of Race" will appear in the forthcoming exhibition catalog Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (University of California Press, 2012), edited by Anna Marley in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Professor Braddock's article “‘Jeff College Boys’: Thomas Eakins, Dr. Forbes, and Anatomical Fraternity in Postbellum Philadelphia” (American Quarterly, June 2005), was awarded the annual Article Prize of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and was a runner-up for the Constance Rourke Prize of the American Studies Association.