Emily C Casey

Dr. Emily Casey specializes in American art and art of the early modern Atlantic World. Her research and teaching examine the visual and material cultures of empire and colonialism across the colonial Americas and the United States. As a researcher and educator, she seeks to push the boundaries of where and when we define American art. Through her work as a writer, speaker, and editor, she has contributed to discussions about the role of settler-colonialism and decolonization theory within the fields of American art and eighteenth-century studies. Her current book project critically examines British and American visual and material culture to reveal how the world’s oceans became a space through which networks of empire and capital were imagined and constructed. Dr. Casey was a predoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She currently serves on the Board of the Association of Historians of American Art.