About the Presenter
Rachel Ciampoli is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill specializing in nineteenth-century art of the United States. Her current research proposes a reexamination of the work of Eastman Johnson. Rachel received a BA in Art History from the College of William and Mary in 2019.
Her undergraduate honors thesis examined nineteenth-century urban ecology, public parks development, and antebellum racial politics through the previously unexplored painting “Servants at a Pump” (1840) by Italian-American artist Nicolino Calyo.
Before beginning her Ph.D. program, Rachel spent three years developing a visual arts integration initiative within the Education department at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. During her Ph.D. program, Rachel has served as the 2022-2023 Humanities Futures Graduate Fellow at the National Humanities Center, the 2023 Alfred Appel, Jr. Curatorial Fellow at the Delaware Art Museum, and as a 2025 Critical Ethnic Studies Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of the American South.