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.

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]}

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