Graduate Students

Annah Kellogg-Krieg

Modern/Contemporary

Annah Kellogg-Krieg completed her MA paper in spring 2004 on the SS-led reconstruction project and public celebrations at the collegiate church in St. Servatius from 1936-1945. This work focused on the importance of German medieval history and cultural production to the SS, an area whose vital role in National Socialist culture scholars often do not recognize fully in favor of highlighting the neo-Classicism of Hitler and others.

This project bore a further investigation of the post-war history of St. Servatius: the attempts to erase the troubled history of the building in East Germany through further reconstructions and its recent post-1989 legacy as a site of multi-layered histories. The National Socialist were not the first, however, to draw upon German medieval history to legitimate their political aims. Medievalism has a long precedence in modern German architecture.

Currently in her dissertation Kellogg-Krieg steps back to the Wilhelmine Empire (1871-1918) to explore the use of neo-Romanesque in religious architecture. Specifically, in the neo-Romanesque churches and synagogues one can see how the three major religions legitimate their presence in the urban landscape and with quite different visual results than the pompous, monumental neo-Romanesque of Kaiser-sponsored buildings like the Imperial Palace in Posen and the numerous train stations, post offices, etc.

By considering neo-Romanesque religious architecture, Kellogg-Krieg strives for a more nuanced understanding of not only the relationship between style and nationalism but also of the relationship between historicism and modernism. Although traditionally thought of as a regurgitate , retrograde style revival, Kellogg-Krieg will reveal how late 19th-century medievalist architecture actually is paving the way for the modernist innovations that follow a generation later.

CV Highlights

Education

PhD - History of Art and Architecture, Certificate in Cultural Studies
Projected Date of Completion: April 2009
MA - History of Art and Architecture, with distinction, April 2004, University of Pittsburgh
BA - Art History and German, minor: Gender Studies, summa cum laude, June 2001
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

Publications

"Restored, Reassessed, Redeemed: The SS Past at the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg." In Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past, edited by Paul B. Jaskot and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, University of Michigan Press, 2007.

"Striking Gold: The Lives of Byzantine Coins Along the Silk Roads." Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 142 (July 2004): 38-48.

Academic Grants and Honors

University of Pittsburgh Art & Sciences Graduate Fellowship, 2008-09

Andrew R. Mellow Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-08

Fulbright Research Fellowship in Berlin, Germany, 2006-07

Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Grant, Pittsburgh and Ùódê, Poland , 2005

"History Takes Place": European Sites of Memory- Wrocùaw/Breslau, summer course grant from the ZEIT-Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, 2005

Friends of Frick Summer Research Grant, 2005

TA/TF Mentor for the History of Art and Architecture department, 2004-05

American Institute of Architects, Pittsburgh chapter, Summer Scholarship, 2003

Conference Papers and Panels Organized

German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN: "Representing the Kaiserreich in Jerusalem: Friedrich Adler and the Church of the Redeemer (1893-1898)"

62nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, CA, 2009: panel, "German Architecture and the Non-Western World During the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic" organized with Itohan Osayimwese

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2008: "'Now I prophesize, Lehnin, your future destiny': Christoph Hehl and the Revival of the Romanesque Roots of Berlin Catholicism in the Crown of Roses Basilica (1899-1900)

German Studies Association, San Diego, CA (October 2007): "Medievalism, Religious Architecture and Modernity at the Dawn of the German Empire: The Case of the New Synagogue in Breslau"

Warburg Colloquium, Hamburg, Germany (March 2006): "In the Service of the Nation(s): Medieval and Neomedieval Architecture in the Contested Terrain of Breslau/Wrocùaw"

German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI (September 2005): "Restored, Reassessed, Redeemed: The SS Past at the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius"

ZEIT-Foundation summer seminar, Wrocùaw, Poland (July 2005): "Cathedrals in Crisis: The Intersection of Nation and Style in Postwar Europe and Wrocùaw"

Center for Russian and East European Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (February 2005): "Autonomy or Ab(sorb)tion: Lusatian Sorb National Identity and the Visual Arts Between the World Wars"

Graduate Student Symposium; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (April 2004): "'As the Blood Speaks, so the People Build': King Heinrich I, Heinrich Himmler, and the Construction of the 1,000-Year Reich in Quedlinburg" Also delivered at the Midwest Society for Art History (April 2003) and at Lawrence University (May 2004).

National Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA (March 2004): "Striking Gold: The Lives of Byzantine Coins Along the Silk Roads"

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2003): "Sisters on the Edge: Enclosure and Marginalization in the Nuns' Gallery of Medieval German Cistercian Convents" Also delivered at the Harrison Humanities Symposium at Lawrence University (May 2001).

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught:

Religious Architecture in the Modern Era, Summer 2008, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Modern Art, Summer 2008, University of Pittsburgh
Art, Memory and Holocaust Memorialization, Fall 2008, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh, including a day trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Western Art and Architecture in the 1930s and 1940s, Summer 2006, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Berlin in the Modern Era, Spring 2006, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Central European Cities Transformed, Fall 2005, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Introduction to Modern Architecture, Summer 2005, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Introduction to Modern Art, Spring 2005, University of Pittsburgh
The Isms of Modern Art, Spring 2005 and Summer 2004, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Introduction to Art, Summer 2004, University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Modern Art, Summer 2008, University of Pittsburgh
Religious Architecture in the Modern Era, Summer 2008, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh

Courses Assisted:

Introduction to Art, Fall 2004, University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Modern Art, Spring 2004, University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Architecture, Fall 2003, University of Pittsburgh
Introduction to Modern Architecture, Fall 2002, University of Pittsburgh