Emily Thames - Fellows Society

Emily Thames

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HOMETOWN: Greenwood, Arkansas

Ph.D. in Art History

Patricia Rose Teaching Fellowship, 2013-2016 (Florida State University Department of Art History)

Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017 (Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History)

B.A. - Art History and Criticism, with honors, University of Arkansas, 2010

M.A. - History of Art, University of North Texas, 2012

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French, "Map of Eastern and Western Hemispheres," 1700-1725. Bequest of Charles Potter Kling. 1935.145

I specialize in the visual and material culture of the colonial Atlantic World, with a focus on the Spanish Americas and the Caribbean (c. 1500-1900).