Hello, Iโm Megan!
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ I am an PhD candidate in art history at the University of Delaware, where I study Atlantic world art and material culture.
๐ My research focuses on the materials and politics of art during the eighteenth century.
๐ My dissertation, โCrayon 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.
๐ 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
- artโs relationship to violence