GENE WADDELL
2001-present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Art History, College of Charleston. Courses taught: Classic Tradition in Architecture, American Architecture, 20th Century Architecture , Introduction to Architecture .
1993-1996: Head, Collections Development, Library; Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, Québec).
1985-1993: Associate Archivist, Archives of the History of Art (to 1991); Curatorial Associate, Special Collections (from 1991); Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica, California).
1976-1984: Director, South Carolina Historical Society (Charleston, South Carolina).
1969-1975: Director,
Florence Museum
(Florence, South Carolina).
Education
B. S., English; College of Charleston .
B. A., Fine Arts (art and architectural history), College of Charleston .
M. A., Architecture (architectural history),
UCLA
. Merit fellowship.
Monographs
Indians of the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1562-1751 . Southern Studies Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia (also issued under the imprint of the Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg), 1980. (Completed while Visiting Research Fellow of the Southern Studies Program.)
Robert Mills's Courthouses and Jails. Co-authored with Rhodri Windsor Liscombe. Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1981.
Charleston in 1883. Co-authored with Arthur Mazyck. Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1983.
Collecting--Preserving--Exhibiting; a Theory of Museum Work. Southern Historical Press, Easley, South Carolina, 1984.
Manuscript accepted for publication by Wasmuth Verlag: "The Design of Greek Doric Temples" (approx. 300 pp.).
Manuscript prepared for the Canadian Centre for Architecture: "The Design for Simon Fraser University and the Problems Accompanying Excellence" (approx. 460 pp. and 200 illustrations).
Charleston Architecture, 1670-1860. Wyrick & Co., Charleston, 2003. Index. (Completed during a year-long sabbatical awarded by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.)
Other Publications (selective)
"Museum Storage," Museum News, the Journal of the American Association of Museums (Jan. 1971), 14-20.
Sections on Primitive and Asian art in Florence Museum, a Collection of World Art (co-authored with Lynn Robertson Myers and John Poindexter). Florence Museum, Florence, South Carolina, 1975 (published with a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission).
"The Charleston Single House, an Architectural Survey," Preservation Progress 22-2 (Mar. 1977), 4-8.
"Seventy-eight Volumes," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 79-3 (Jul. 1978), 240-244 (historiography).
"The Introduction of Greek Revival Architecture to Charleston," Art in the Lives of South Carolinians, Nineteenth Century Chapters, Book I . Edited by David Moltke-Hansen. Carolina Art Association, 1978 (18 pp.).
"Where Are Our Trumbulls?" Art in the Lives of South Carolinians, Nineteenth Century Chapters, Book II. Edited by David Moltke-Hansen. Carolina Art Association, 1979; 24 pp. (essay on why South Carolina produced no great artists).
"Robert Mills's Fireproof Building," South Carolina Historical Magazine , 80-2 (Apr. 1979), 105-135.
"Robert Mills, Cartographer," Mills' Atlas; Atlas of the State of South Carolina, 1825. Southern Historical Press, Easley, 1980 (19 pp.).
"The First Monticello," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , 46-l (Mar. 1987), 5-29.
"Latrobe and the Beginning of Professionalism in American Architecture," Design Book Review, issue 11 (Winter 1987), 30-34.
"Ignorance and Deceit in Renaming Charleston's Rivers; Some Observations about the Reliability of Historical Sources," South Carolina Historical Magazine 89-1 (Jan. 1988), 40-50.
"The Greek Pentathlon," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 5 (1991), 99-106.
"The Architectural History of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim," South Carolina Historical Magazine 98 (Jan. 1997): 6-55.
"The Design of the Westminster Hall Roof," Architectural History: Journal of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 42 (1999): 47-67.
"The Principal Design Methods for Greek Doric Temples and their Modification for the Parthenon." Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 45 (2002): 1-31.
"The Only Volume in the Octagon Library: the Early Architecture of Charleston." Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940 edited by James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2003), pp. 115-125, 224-228.
"Cusabo." Handbook of North American Indians , William C. Sturtevant, General Editor: Southeast, Raymond D. Fogelson, Volume 14 Editor. Smithsonian Insitutition, Washington (2004), pp. 254-264.
"Architecture Books Every Library Should Have." Against the Grain 17-2 (Apr. 2005): 53-56.
"A Bibliography for John Bachman." Archives of Natural History 32-1 (2005): 53-69. Bachman Publications Online.
"Cofitachequi: A Distinctive Culture, Its Identity, and Its Location."
Ethnohistory 52-2 (Spring 2005): 333-369.
Presentations (selective)
"'Dramatically Opposite': Mills's Circular and Baptist Churches, Charleston." Conference entitled "Robert Mills: the Years of Growth," Winterthur Museum, 9 Oct. 1982.
"The First Monticello: Jefferson's Preparation to Design the Virginia Capitol." Conference entitled "New Visions of Neoclassical Richmond," the Southern White House Seminars, 20 Oct. 1984.
"Suggestions for Making the Results of Field Work More Accessible." Annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, 29 Dec. 1987.
"The Charleston Single House; Using Computers to Define the Evolution of a Dwelling Type." Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, 14 Apr. 1988.
"Ideas that Influenced Charleston Architecture." Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Charleston, 15 Apr. 1993.
"The Design of Greek Doric Temples," Work in Progress Session, Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, 7 Apr. 1995.
"How the Parthenon was Designed," presented as part of the session on
"Design in Ancient Architecture," Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural
Historians, St. Louis, Apr. 1996.
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