Speakers
- Jennifer Van Horn
- University of Delaware
Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as assistant professor in Art History and History at the University of Delaware where she teaches classes on American visual and material culture. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America, released by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute in 2017. In 2018-2019 she was the William C. Seitz Senior Fellow at CASVA (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) at the National Gallery of Art. There she continued work on her second book tentatively titled Resisting the Art of Enslavement: Slavery and Portraiture in American Art. A piece of this project was published in The Art Bulletin and a second essay was part of the National Portrait Gallery’s volume Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture.