Elizabeth Athens

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

Elizabeth Athens received her Ph.D from Yale University. She is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting. Before coming to the University of Connecticut she worked at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC, where she contributed to the digital humanities resource History of Early American Landscape Design, and also served as the curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum. While at Worcester, she co-organized the traveling exhibition Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England and co-authored its catalogue.

Athens’s research has been published in The Oxford Art Journal, History of Photography, and J18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture. She is currently at work on a book project that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.