Jessica Keating

Jessica Keating serves as Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art and Art History Department at Carleton College, where she has been a faculty member since 2014.

Her educational background includes a PhD from Northwestern University.

Professor Keating's research specializes in early modern European art history, examining the intersections of collecting practices, technological innovation, cross-cultural exchange, and imperial sovereignty. Her acclaimed book Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire and the Early Modern World (2018) analyzes religious and political dimensions of sixteenth-century clockwork automata, while her current work investigates Emperor Rudolf II's Kunstkammer as expressions of sovereignty and prepares a monograph on Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

No scientific awards were documented in the source material.

The available information does not specify graduate student advising activities, research grants, or laboratory affiliations, though her extensive course offerings—including seminars on Renaissance art, sexuality in religious imagery, and historical methodologies—demonstrate active scholarly engagement.