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Biography

Professor听Wendy Bellion听(Ph.D. Northwestern University) specializes in North American art history. Her teaching and scholarship take an interdisciplinary approach to American visual and material culture, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth-century United States and exploring American art within the cultural geographies of the British Atlantic world and early modern Americas.听She has served as the Terra Foundation of American Art Visiting Professor in Paris, and she has held research fellowships with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 听

Her current research includes projects about the Peale family, the visual culture of the Chestnut Street Theatre, and a co-edited volume about iconoclasm across the early Americas (with M贸nica Dom铆nguez Torres and Jennifer Van Horn). A co-edited special issue about 鈥淩evolution鈥� is forthcoming in (spring 2026).

Her recent publications include (2023, with co-editor Kristel Smentek;听听(2019);听听(2011), which won the Smithsonian鈥檚 2014 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship; and 听(Winterthur Portfolio, 2011, with co-editor M贸nica Dom铆nguez Torres).听She is a frequent podcast guest, appearing recently on and .

Professor Bellion is a past Director of the University鈥檚 Center for Material Culture Studies and has served as Associate Dean for the Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences. She is currently a member of the American Antiquarian Society鈥檚 Advisory Council and will be the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at the Clark Art Institute/Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art during 2027-28.