Emily Beeber
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Education
M.A., Art History, University of Delaware, 2021
B.A., Art History, American University, 2017
B.A., History, American University, 2017
Research Interests
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century portraiture of the Atlantic world, material culture, history of museums and collecting, feminist theory
Biography
Emily Beeber is a Curatorial Track Ph.D. student. She researches eighteenth and nineteenth-century portraiture of the Atlantic world with an emphasis on issues of gender, race and ethnicity, and transatlantic circulation. In 2021, she earned an M.A. in Art History from the University of Delaware. Her Master's Paper focused on Rembrandt Peale's 1801 painting Rubens Peale with a Geranium to explore the connections between portraiture, enslavement, and botanical science in the Early Republic. In 2017, Emily graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. in Art History and a B.A. in History from American University. She has held curatorial internships at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, and the Phillips Collection.
Current Research Projects
This year, Emily has worked as a summer intern in the Department of American and British Paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Using the Gallery's rich curatorial records, she has researched the development of its collection of American paintings.
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