Adriano Aymonino
adriano.aymonino@buckingham.ac.uk
Current Location: London, UK
University of Buckingham
Dr
Aymonino
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Research Interests: Reception of the Classical tradition; 18th-century aesthetics; theory of art and architecture; materiality (ancient marbles); print culture; Grand Tour
Current Project Titles: Taste and the Antique: revised edition
Megan Baker
mebaker@udel.edu
Current Location: Salem, MA
University of Delaware
PhD candidate
Baker
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Research Interests: Eighteenth-century Atlantic world art and material culture; the pastel medium; drawing and education; artistic supplies and materiality; portraiture; the relationship between art and politics; revolution; the French presence in North America
Current Project Titles: Dissertation: "Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814"
Brenna Barks
tartan.tinted@gmail.com
Current Location: Fresno, CA
Barks
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Research Interests: Scotland, tartan, tweed, textile and dress history, material culture, British art and architecture
Noelle Barr
noelle.barr@duke.edu
Current Location: Durham, NC
Duke University
Barr
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Research Interests: Early modern (1400–1800) European art, gender, race, empire, and performance
Current Project Titles: Fabricating the French Face: Masking, Whiteness, and Self-Profiling in Eighteenth-Century Art (Ph.D. dissertation)
Maria Bastos-Stanek
mbastosstanek@smu.edu
Current Location: Dallas, TX
Southern Methodist University
Graduate Student
Bastos-Stanek
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Research Interests: Architecture and cartography of Portugal and Brazil
Dominic Bate
dominic_bate@brown.edu
Brown University
PhD Candidate
Bate
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Research Interests: British Art, Graphic Arts, History of Science, Religion
Current Project Titles: Pythagorean Visions: Picturing Harmony in Augustan England
Denise Baxter
dbaxter@umassd.edu
Current Location: Dartmouth, MA
UMass Dartmouth
Dean
Baxter
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Emily Beeber
epeikin@udel.edu
Current Location: Washington, DC/Baltimore Area
University of Delaware
PhD Candidate
Beeber
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Research Interests: 18th and 19th century portraiture of the Atlantic world, material culture, history of museums and collecting, Jewish Studies
Danelle Bernten
Florida State University
PhD Student
Bernten
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Research Interests: Black figures in 18th century Europe and the American South. enslaved material culture, historic houses
Sarah Betzer
sbetzer@virginia.edu
Current Location: Cambridge, England
University of Virginia
Professor
Betzer
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King's College, University of Cambridge
Visiting Fellow 2025-26
Research Interests: transmediality before medium specificity
Lauren Bradshaw
lebrad@udel.edu
Current Location: Wilmington, DE
Winterthur Museum
Material Culture Fellow
Bradshaw
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University of Delaware
Grad Student
Research Interests: Needlework
Current Project Titles: "Prophetic Pins": Superstition and Sentiment in Layette Pincushions, 1760-1800
Fiona Brideoake
fiona.brideoake@gmail.com
Current Location: Washington DC
American University, Washington DC
Assistant Professor of Literature
Brideoake
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Research Interests: History and historiography of sexuality and domesticity; sociability; histories of the body; reproductive justice.
Current Project Titles: "Undue Burdens" (co-edited collection on eighteenth-century histories of reproduction and reproductive justice, with Ula Klein and Nicole Garret)
Elizabeth Browne
esbrowne@uga.edu
Current Location: Atlanta, GA
University of Georgia
Assistant Professor of Art History
Browne
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Research Interests: Sculpture and decorative arts, aesthetics, theories of ornament, gender and representation, reception of antiquities, materiality
Current Project Titles: Modeling Sculpture: Clodion and the Aesthetics of Terracotta
Alicia Caticha
Current Location: Chicago, Il
Northwestern University
Assistant Professor
Caticha
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Research Interests: Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Porcelain, Materiality, Atlantic World, History of Race
Current Project Titles: Sculpting Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century France: Sugar, Porcelain, Marble
elisa-cazzatogmail-com
elisa.cazzato@unina.it
Current Location: Naples (Italy)
University of Naples Federico II
Assistant Professor
Cazzato
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Research Interests: Based at the University of Naples Federico II, I hold a PhD in Art History from the University of Sydney, supervised by Mark Ledbury. My research encompasses scenography, ephemeral art, spectacle, and artistic networks in the long eighteenth century. I am a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and I collaborated with Meredith Martin at the New York University and with the Sorbonne Université.
Current Project Titles: Based at the University of Naples Federico II, Elisa Cazzato holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Sydney. Her research encompasses scenography, ephemeral art, spectacle, and artistic networks in the long eighteenth century. A former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, she collaborated with New York University and Sorbonne Université.
Tori Champion
tchampio@risd.edu
Current Location: Providence, RI
RISD Museum
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow
Champion
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RISD Museum
Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow
Research Interests: Women artists, Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, Low Countries, Great Britain, Portraiture, Natural History Painting, Botanical Illustration, Artistic collaboration
Current Project Titles: "Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien and the Emergence of Neoclassicism" (PhD Dissertation)
Shing-Kwan Chan
skchan@princeton.edu
Current Location: Princeton, NJ
Princeton University
Ph.D. Candidate
Chan
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Research Interests: Global history of Chinese art, museum studies and collecting histories, and issues related to gender and sexuality
Current Project Titles: Tactics and Tactility: Unfolding Male Same-Sex Affects in Qing-Dynasty Chinese Art
Nicole Chapman
nicole.kameenui@outlook.com
Current Location: Jacksonville, NC
Lindenwood University
Adjunct Instructor
Chapman
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Cape Fear Community College
Adjunct Instructor
Research Interests: 18th Century French Artists, Female Artists, Rococo Architecture
Daniel Chen
daniel.chen.162@cranfield.ac.uk
Current Location: UK
Cranfield University
Chen
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Research Interests: Ceramics, Decorative Arts, Material Culture
Cynthia Chin
cynthia.e.chin@gmail.com
Current Location: NJ/NYC
University of Glasgow
Chin
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Research Interests: Dress, textiles, and identity in #VastEarlyAmerica; Replication and making as research methods; Collecting and the history of museum collections
Jennifer Chuong
chuong@illinois.edu
Current Location: Champaign-Urbana, IL
Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Junior Fellow
Chuong
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Research Interests: American, British, transatlantic art, architecture, and material culture, history of race, eco-criticism, print studies
Ersy Contogouris
ersy.contogouris@umontreal.ca
Current Location: Montreal
Université de Montréal
Associate professor
Contogouris
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Research Interests: Gender, Queer theory, caricature, graphic satire, Emma Hamilton, Vigée-Le Brun
Current Project Titles: Representations of Rape and Sexual Violence in caricature and graphic satire; "What was she wearing?": Clothing as Obfuscation in Fragonard's Le Verrou
Barbara Cousin
barbaracousin@orange.fr
Current Location: France
Université de Lille
student
Cousin
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Education nationale
principal
Research Interests: 17th-18th Enlightenment William Blake Visual arts
Current Project Titles: La nature de William Blake: Observer, Imaginer, Graver
Katie DiDomenico
didomenico.k@wustl.edu
Current Location: St. Louis, MO
Washington University in St. Louis
Graduate Student
DiDomenico
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Research Interests: Dutch colonialism in the Atlantic world
Current Project Titles: Dutch Colonialism in Suriname
Zoë
adostal@amherst.edu
Current Location: Amherst, MA
Amherst College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dostal
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Courtauld Institute
Kress Fellow
Research Interests: Britain, France, Institutions, Gender, Labor, Industrialization, Textiles, Prints and Drawings, Paintings,
Current Project Titles: Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor, and the Textile Industry in Eighteenth-Century British Art
Rebecca Dunnegan
rdunnegan@smu.edu
Current Location: Dallas, TX
Southern Methodist University
PhD student
Dunnegan
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Research Interests: historic houses, Curatorial Studies, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, French decorative arts, porcelain, French Revolution, Napoleonic era
Susan Eberhard
seberhard@berkeley.edu
Current Location: Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley
PhD Candidate
Eberhard
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Research Interests: Asian art and material culture
Current Project Titles: Metamorphic Medium: Materializing Silver in Modern China
Marlies Ehrenpaar
marlies.ehrenpaar@univie.ac.at
Current Location: Vienna, Austria
University of Vienna
PhD candidate
Ehrenpaar
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Research Interests: Gender, Fashion, France
Current Project Titles: Excusez-Moi Madame — we can see your Nipple!
Carter Eltzroth
celtzroth@helikon.net
Eltzroth
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Mariela Espinoza-Leon
espnzln2@unm.edu
University of New Mexico
PhD Candidate
Espinoza-Leon
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University of Illinois at Chicago
Emily Everhart
eeverhart@artacademy.edu
Current Location: Cincinnati, OH
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Assistant Professor
Everhart
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Research Interests: European landscape gardens, landscape architecture, friendship studies
Current Project Titles: Architectures of Friendship
Juliana Fagua Arias
jf799@cornell.edu
Current Location: Ithaca, NY
Cornell University
PhD. Student
Fagua Arias
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Research Interests: Colonial Latin American Art, Transpacific Trade
Gordon Fairclough
gordon.fairclough@history.ox.ac.uk
Current Location: Kendal Cumbria UK
University of Oxford
DPhil Student
Fairclough
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Research Interests: !8th century architecture and society
Current Project Titles: The Commercial Gentleman's House in the English Lakes 1750-1830
Krystle Farrugia
krystlefarrugia@outlook.com
Current Location: Malta
MUŻA, National Art Museum - Heritage Malta
Principal Curator
Farrugia
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Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Prints, Printmaking, History of Collecting, Old Master Drawings, Book History
Current Project Titles: The Print Collection of Count Saverio Marchese; Learning about Old Master Drawings through the National Collection at MUŻA, Finding Prints and Drawings at the National Library of Malta
Katherine Fein
kfein@amherst.edu
Current Location: Amherst, MA
Amherst College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fein
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Research Interests: North America and the Atlantic world, the body, ecology
Current Project Titles: Tusk and Skin: The Intimate Ecologies of Ivory Miniatures
Agnieszka Ficek
aficek@smu.edu
Current Location: Dallas, TX
Southern Methodist University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ficek
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University of Texas at Dallas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Project Titles: From Allegory to Revolution: South America in the Early Modern French Imagination
Deborah Fisher
deborah.a.fisher@alumni.psu.edu
Current Location: Carlisle, PA
Independent Scholar
Fisher
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Emerald Fox
jemrosy@gmail.com
Current Location: Salt Lake City, UT
University of Utah
Graduate student - Teaching Assistant
Fox
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Research Interests: 18th century American material culture, painters
Current Project Titles: Depictions of Masculinity in 18th Century Portraits
Jennifer Franks
j.franks@mail.utoronto.ca
Current Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto
PhD Student / Art + Design Historian
Franks
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Research Interests: Decorative Art, Material Culture, Fine Art, Intellectual Histories
Current Project Titles: PhD Student at the University of Toronto
Jessica Fripp
j.fripp@tcu.edu
Current Location: Fort Worth, TX
Texas Christian University
Associate Professor
Fripp
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Research Interests: France, old age, sociability, gender
Current Project Titles: Aging and Old Women in Eighteenth-Century France
Toni Fuimoto
fujimoto.toni@gmail.com
Current Location: Kaua`i
UH Kaua`i Community College
ECED Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor
Fuimoto
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Adam Fuller
adamfuller@montana.edu
Current Location: Bozeman, MT
Montana State University
Graduate Student
Fuller
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Research Interests: 18th century letters, 18th Century American Sculpture
Current Project Titles: The Study of Letters in 18th Century America: Giuseppe Ceracchi and the Early American Republic
Nicole Gasparini Casari
nicole.gasparinicasari@courtauld.ac.uk
Current Location: London
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Gasparini Casari
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Research Interests: Parisian interiors, decorative arts, gardens, gender studies, ecology
Current Project Titles: Carving Out a Place from Within: Courtly Femininity and Ecofeminist Practices in Early Eighteenth-Century Parisian Garden Pavilions
Benet Ge
benet_ge@brown.edu
Current Location: Providence, RI
Brown University
PhD Student
Ge
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Research Interests: British Empire, French Empire, China, decorative and graphic arts, Neoclassicism
Jennifer Germann
jennifer.germann04@gmail.com
Current Location: Ithaca, NY
Independent Scholar
Germann
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Research Interests: women artists and patrons, portraiture, material culture
Gabriel Girard
gabriel.girard.9@umontreal.ca
Current Location: Montréal, Qc
Université de Montréal
Master Candidate
Girard
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Research Interests: Fragonard's paintings, ecocritical research, nature.
Amelia Goldsby
amelia-goldsby@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa
Doctoral Candidate
Goldsby
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Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology
Residential Fellow
Research Interests: Ecocriticism; French painting and drawing; arboreal representation
Current Project Titles: Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870
Laura
Laura.golobish@bsu.edu
Current Location: Muncie, IN
Ball State University
Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History
Golobish
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Association of Print Scholars
Digital Content Coordinator
Research Interests: Graphic arts, print, and publication design in the Atlantic world; Scotland; Gàidhealtachd; Geology of lithography; landscape; topographic drawing
Current Project Titles: Piss, Poison, and other Paths between Scotland and England in Caricature since 1745
Monica Anke Hahn
mhahn@ccp.edu
Current Location: Philadelphia
Community College of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor
Hahn
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Temple University
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Eighteenth-century British Empire, Theatre and Performance, Indigeneity, toys and games, pantomime and harlequinades
Current Project Titles: Harlequins of Empire: Staging Colonial Identity in British Art circa 1776
Philippe Halbert
philippe.halbert@thewadsworth.org
Current Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Richard Koopman Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts
Halbert
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Research Interests: Decorative arts, material culture, empire, Atlantic world, early modern race and identity
Current Project Titles: “‘Mestre de luy mesme’: François Mentor, Free Silversmith of Color in Colonial Canada”