Nathan Rees, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art: Art History & University Core
School of Visual and Performing Arts College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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Nathan Rees, Ph.D.
Biography

Nathan Rees [www.nathankrees.com] joined the University of West Georgia in 2016. His research explores the intersections of race and religion in the United States. He has published and presented on topics including modernist appropriations of Indigenous America, monuments to Western settlement, and ecocritical approaches to landscape painting. His book, Mormon Visual Culture and the American West (Routledge, 2021), situates the visual culture of Mormonism in the social contexts of the nineteenth-century Utah Territory. A secondary research area focuses on the visual and material culture of American hymnody, especially the shape-note singing traditions of the Southeast. His article, "The Sacred Harp 'Minutes Book': Centering Tradition for an Expanding Community in the Digital Age," appeared in American Periodicals in 2020. Dr. Rees is also active in community engagement, serving as volunteer curator of the Sacred Harp Museum in Carrollton, Georgia.

Education / Degrees
  • Ph.D., Art History, University of Maryland, 2010
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Publication List

Mormon Visual Culture and the American West [View Publication External Resource]

Framing Colonization for Mormon Youth in the Juvenile Instructor [View Publication External Resource]

The Sacred Harp “Minutes Book”: Centering Tradition for an Expanding Community in the Digital Age [View Publication External Resource]

This is the Place, Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria: Monuments to Settler Constructions of History [View Publication External Resource]

Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness [View Publication External Resource]

C. C. A. Christensen, Joseph Preaching to the Indians, 1878 - an Object Narrative [View Publication External Resource]

Where ‘Deep Streams Flow, Endlessly Renewing’: Metaphysical Religion and ‘Cultural Evolution’ in the Art of Agnes Pelton [View Publication External Resource]