Allison Morehead

Allison Morehead is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen's University. Her research focuses on modern French, German, and Scandinavian art and visual culture, emphasizing intersections with the psy-sciences and medicalization of life. She is currently curating an exhibition on Edvard Munch at MUNCH in Oslo (2025) and leads the Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical and Health Humanities project with Durham and Uppsala Universities.

Her work bridges art history with critical medical humanities, as seen in her co-edited volume Art & the Critical Medical Humanities. She has held grants from the Whiting, Kress, and Wellcome Trust, among others, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of caa.reviews.

Research interests include feminist/critical race theory, art-science relations, museum studies, and visual culture. Recent publications address Munch’s medicalization themes, Strindberg’s surrealism, and 19th-century printmaking’s medical undercurrents.

• Projects: Lifeblood/Livsblod exhibition (2025), Confabulations event series (2021–23), Wellcome Trust-funded collaborations.
• Awards: Finalist, Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize (2017).
• Grants: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Brocher Foundation, King’s College Cambridge.

She teaches courses such as Modern Arts in a Globalizing World and Art and the Medicalization of Modern Life, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to art history.