Pascale Rihouet

Pascale Rihouet is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art & Visual Culture at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she has been since 2008. She also serves as a part-time professor at IESA arts & culture in Paris since 2023. Her expertise spans European art (1400–1800), material culture, and food history, with a focus on Renaissance processions, papal rituals, and colonial commodities.

• Education: DEA from University of Paris, PhD from Brown University

Her research explores the intersection of art, ritual, and material culture, as seen in publications like Art Moves (2019) and Eternal Ephemera (2020). She has also pioneered courses on chocolate and coffee history, integrating ethics and sustainability into art and design education.

Notable awards include a Villa Medici grant (2019) and IICCT certification levels 1 and 2 (2023–24). She actively organizes conferences, such as the New England Renaissance Conference (2019) and sessions at the College Art Association (2021).

Her current projects include a monograph on Roman festival prints (1589–1775) and contributions to exhibitions like Trading Earth: Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce (RISD Museum, 2022–2025).