Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art; Early Modern Print Culture; Illustrated Travelogues; Material Culture of Travel; Dutch Global Expanses; Indonesia
Faculty Advisor: Ann Jensen Adams
Committee Members: Mark A. Meadow, María Lumberas
Dissertation: “Picturing Indonesia in the Dutch Republic: The Printed Images of Johan Nieuhof's ‘Sea and Land Voyage, through various Regions of the East Indies,’ (1682).”
M.A. Thesis: "From Wool to Paper: Johannes Stradanus and the Transmediality of his ‘Hunting Scenes'" (The Courtauld Institute of Art, completed 2015)
Bio:
Emma Gagnon is a PhD candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is writing her dissertation on printed images of Indonesia circulating in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century. Before moving to Santa Barbara to pursue her doctoral studies, she received an MA in art history with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2015 and a BA in art history, Summa Cum Laude, from New York University in 2013. In addition to teaching at UCSB as a Graduate Student Instructor and Associate Instructor, Emma has held internships and positions at Sotheby’s, Print Quarterly, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Her dissertation has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Harry Ransom Center, the Bancroft Library, the Newberry Library, the Karmiole Research Fellowship at the Clark Memorial Library, and the Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute. She has further academic interests in domesticity and gender in Dutch cities—particularly Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia) —and in early modern European markets for foreign comestible commodities.