Hello, Iโ€™m Megan!

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿซ I am an PhD candidate in art history at the University of Delaware, where I study Atlantic world art and material culture.

๐Ÿ”Ž My research focuses on the materials and politics of art during the eighteenth century.

๐Ÿ– My dissertation, โ€œCrayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,โ€ investigates the role of the pastel medium in shaping revolutionary ideas and settler-colonial identities.

๐Ÿ› I am a 2024-2025 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. Read more about my work here.

Research Interests

  • medium specificity and materiality
  • drawing practice and artistic education
  • politics and aesthetics in the Age of Revolutions
  • artโ€™s relationship to violence