Megan Baker is a PhD candidate in Art History and Unidel Distinguished Graduate Scholar at the University of Delaware, where her work primarily focuses on art and material culture of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Megan’s research addresses drawing practice and education, the movement of artistic supplies and techniques, the French presence in North America, the interactions between politics and aesthetics in the Age of Revolutions, and art’s relationship to violence. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,” considers the ascendent popularity of pastel portraits in late eighteenth-century British North America and the inter-imperial trade and resource extraction necessary for the medium to flourish. Megan holds B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and an M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College, where her qualifying paper explored how François Boucher’s artistic practice facilitated misunderstandings of the artist’s _faire_ with enduring repercussions. She previously held curatorial positions at the Clark Art Institute and the Williams College Museum of Art.​