Education & Professional History
Williams College, MA; Yale University, PhD
Baird Jarman is a Professor of Art History at Carleton College. His research focuses on nineteenth-century American visual culture, such as Gilded Age satire, Civil War reportage, Progressive Era mural painting, and early motion pictures. He is currently completing a book about political caricature during the Reconstruction era.
At Carleton since 2002.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Recent Publications & Conferences:
“Many Hands Make Light-Fingered Work: Intellectual Property, the Pictorial Press & Civil War Reportage,” American Art 37.3 (Fall 2023).
“Drawing Time: Winsor McCay’s Lightning Sketches on Stage and Screen,” Early Popular Visual Culture 20:2-3 (Special Issue: Seeing Time, May-August 2022).
“The Burlesque of Reconstruction,” American Reconstruction panel, SECAC annual conference, Baltimore, Oct. 26-29, 2022.
“Quick as a Flash: Victor Collodion and the Development of the Lightning Artist,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 19.2 (Autumn 2020).
“The Political Broadsides of Currier & Ives: A Reconsideration” in Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives, exhibition catalogue (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020).
“The Trouble with Thomas Nast,” Illustration Across Media: Nineteenth Century to Now, symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, Mar. 22, 2019.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
American Studies Association
Association of Historians of American Art
College Art Association
Midwest Art History Society
Society of Architectural Historians
Current Courses
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Fall 2026
ARTH 100:
Art and Culture in the Gilded Age
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“Many Hands Make Light-Fingered Work: Intellectual Property, the Pictorial Press & Civil War Reportage,” American Art 37.3 (Fall 2023).
“Drawing Time: Winsor McCay’s Lightning Sketches on Stage and Screen,” Early Popular Visual Culture 20:2-3 (Special Issue: Seeing Time, May-August 2022).
“Quick as a Flash: Victor Collodion and the Development of the Lightning Artist,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 19.2 (Autumn 2020).
“The Political Broadsides of Currier & Ives: A Reconsideration” in Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives, exhibition catalogue (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020).
Architectural Studies in Europe, Carleton Off-Campus Studies program, winters 2018, 2020, 2022 & 2024.
Current Courses
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Fall 2026
ARTH 100:
Art and Culture in the Gilded Age
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“Many Hands Make Light-Fingered Work: Intellectual Property, the Pictorial Press & Civil War Reportage,” American Art 37.3 (Fall 2023).
“Drawing Time: Winsor McCay’s Lightning Sketches on Stage and Screen,” Early Popular Visual Culture 20:2-3 (Special Issue: Seeing Time, May-August 2022).
“Quick as a Flash: Victor Collodion and the Development of the Lightning Artist,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 19.2 (Autumn 2020).
“The Political Broadsides of Currier & Ives: A Reconsideration” in Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives, exhibition catalogue (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020).
Architectural History, Arthurian Literature, Caricature, Cinema History, the Gilded Age, the Gothic Revival, Historic Preservation, Modern Architecture, Mural Painting, Political Satire, the Progressive Era, Theater History, Urban Planning
