Jennifer Roberts (art historian)

Jennifer L. Roberts
Born1969
Known forMirror-Travels
TitleElizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities
Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts
SpouseDan Hisel
Children1
Academic background
EducationStanford University
Yale University
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineAmerican art
InstitutionsHarvard University

Jennifer L. Roberts is an American art historian. She serves as Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her research and teaching focuses on American art from the colonial period to the present.[1]

Education

Roberts attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, where she initially studied human biology before ultimately double-majoring in English and art history, though she did not begin the latter until her senior year.[2] She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1992.[2][1] She then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, graduating in 2000.[1]

Career

Roberts became an assistant professor at Harvard University in 2002.[1]

Roberts’s first book, Mirror-Travels, explored the work of Robert Smithson, who created the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Utah.

In 2021, Roberts delivered the seventieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.

Personal life

Roberts is married to the architect Dan Hisel. She has one child.

Works

  • Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 9780300094978, OCLC 959162488[3][4]
  • American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Prentice Hall, 2007) ISBN 9780136140481, OCLC 154674600
  • Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print (Harvard Art Museums, 2012) ISBN 9783775732918, OCLC 827782553
  • Transporting Visions: the Movement of Images in Early America (University of California Press, 2014) ISBN 9780520251847, OCLC 876039376[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Jennifer Roberts". scholar.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b Boch, Anna E. (April 28, 2009). "15 Faculty Hot Shots: Jennifer Roberts | Magazine". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  3. ^ Rahtz, Dominic (2005-02-01). "Review: Jennifer L. Roberts, Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History". The Art Book. 12 (1): 41–42. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8357.2005.00506.x. ISSN 1467-8357.
  4. ^ Miller, Angela (2005-01-01). "Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History. Jennifer L. Roberts". Archives of American Art Journal. 45 (3/4): 25–29. doi:10.1086/aaa.45.3_4.25435110. ISSN 0003-9853.
  5. ^ Gephart, Emily W. (2016-03-23). "Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America by Jennifer L. Roberts (review)". American Studies. 54 (4): 172–173. doi:10.1353/ams.2016.0025. ISSN 2153-6856. S2CID 147020384.
  6. ^ Bedell, Rebecca (2016-01-02). "Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America, by Jennifer Roberts". The Art Bulletin. 98 (1): 127–129. doi:10.1080/00043079.2016.1111024. ISSN 0004-3079. S2CID 192633621.
  7. ^ Phelan, Richard (2014-07-09). "Jennifer L. Roberts, Transporting Visions. The Movement of Images in Early America". Transatlantica. Revue d'Études Américaines. American Studies Journal (in French) (1). doi:10.4000/transatlantica.7005. ISSN 1765-2766.
  8. ^ Glogower, Abigail (November 2015). "Jennifer L. Roberts, Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, $60.00/£41.95). Pp. 240. ISBN 978 0 5202 5184 7". Journal of American Studies. 49 (4): 912–914. doi:10.1017/S0021875815001395. ISSN 0021-8758. S2CID 151965563.