About the Presenter
Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (2017), which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art during Slavery (2022). She co-edited a special double issue of Winterthur Portfolio entitled “Enslavement and Its Legacies” and is now co-editing the collected volume The Disabled Gaze: Multi-Sensory Perspectives of Art, Bodies & Objects. She serves as the president of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA).