TEACHING AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate teaching)
From 1977 to 2013, Sasha Grishin developed and taught over 25 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level courses at the Australian National University. These have included an innovatory introductory methodological course, as well as advance-level courses which have not been taught in Australia before, including Australian Art: Methods and Approaches, Art of the Modern print, Art of the Byzantine Empire, Art of the Byzantine Commonwealth and Russian Art: Icons and revolutions.
Sasha Grishin has delivered numerous guest lectures at universities, art galleries and art schools throughout Australia, Europe, USA and Asia, including Harvard University, London University, the British Museum, the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and the Beijing Central Art Academy. Sasha Grishin has been involved as a PhD examiner for various universities including the University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Monash University, University of Queensland, LaTrobe University, Queensland University of Technology, Newcastle University, James Cook University, add University of Western Australia, University of Sydney and University of South Australia
In 2008, Sasha Grishin was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning & Teaching Council citation reading “For the creation of innovative and vocationally orientated methods of teaching art history and curatorship”
Academic outreach activities
Sasha Grishin has served on various national and international Editorial Boards including those of Art & Australia and China Art (PRC) and has served as an Academic Reader for numerous journals and publications including Cambridge University Press, Australian Cultural History, Manchester University Press, The International Journal of the Humanities, Rural Society, University of Melbourne, Deakin University, Journal of Art Historiography, Journal of Australian Studies, DosijeStudio Publishing, Belgrade (Serbia), Horizon Research Publishing (USA), Journal of Historical Geography (USA) and Art Journal (London)
Sasha Grishin has been involved as a PhD examiner for various universities including the University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Monash University, University of Queensland, LaTrobe University, Queensland University of Technology, Newcastle University, James Cook University,
He has also served as an Assessor for the Australian Research Council and the ARC Council of Experts and a member of the QLT Assessment Panel.
Selected list of awarded PhD supervised by Professor Grishin
Frances Thomson Topic: Tate Adams and the Australian Printmaking Revival of the 1960s (2019)
Dianne Longley Topic: The Development of a Print Culture in South Australia Post-WWII to 2008: institutions, politics and personalities (2018)
Denise Morgan Topic: 'Roar: A Melbourne Phenomenon' (2015)
Anita Pisch Topic: ‘The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953: archetypes, inventions and fabrications’ (2014)
Anita Strezova Topic: ‘The Impact of Byzantine Hesychasm on Christian Art in Byzantine and Slavic Lands in 14th and 15th Centuries’ (2013)
Jacqui Cheney Topic: ‘The Mythology of the Uncanny as Theory and Practice in Australian Contemporary Art’ (2012)
Jane Kinsman Topic: ‘The prints of David Hockney : their cultural, autobiographical and artistic contexts’ (2011)
Douglas Mackay Topic: ‘Copying, parody, and pastiche in the early work of Paul Cézanne’ (2010)
Steven Tonkin Topic: ‘Conceptual art and artists' books : an Australian perspective’ (2010)
Anthea Gunn Topic: ‘Imitation realism and Australian art’ (2010)
Brian Whitton Topic: ‘Modern painters of primal vision : visionary art and the idea of the ars symbiosis in modern Western (2009)
Anne Sander Topic: ‘The Mildura sculpture triennials 1961-1978 : an interpretative history’ (2009)
Alistair Noble Topic: ‘Aspects of the organisation of pitch and time in the early piano music of Morton Feldman’ (2008)
Charlene Ogilvie Topic: ‘The Aboriginal movement and Australian photography’ (2007)
Diana Kostyrko Topic: ‘Journal of an homme d'affaires : René Gimpel, 1918-1939: anatomy of cultural perception’ (2006)
Dimity Phillips Topic: ‘Impressions of distance : a study of women printmakers practising in regional Australia 1993-2003’ (2006)
Zoja Bojic Topic: ‘Émigré artists of Slav cultural heritage working in Australia in the 20th century’ (2005)
James Berryman Topic: ‘From field to fieldwork : the exhibition catalogue and art history in Australia’ (2005)
Bryony Wakefield Topic: ‘Identity and process in the art of Bea Maddock’ (2004)
Shireen Huda Topic: ‘Art auctions in Australia : their development and role in the Australian art market, with special reference to Christie's and Sotheby's’ (2003)
Thea Exley Topic: ‘Patronage by proxy : art competitions in Australia during the twentieth century’ (2000)
Elisabeth Findlay Topic: ‘Portraiture in early Victoria, 1834-1861 : a study of art and patronage in colonial society’ (1994)
Sue-Anne Flutter Topic: ‘Byzantine Cappadocia : the planning and function of its ecclesiastical structures’ (1991)
Priscilla Henderson Topic: ‘The Christian mosaics of Byzantine Palestine : towards an interpretation’ (1990)