Stacey Sloboda

Stacey Sloboda is the Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century British visual and material culture. Her research explores design history, decorative arts, cross-cultural artistic exchange, and histories of collecting.

• Author of Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2014) and A Cultural History of the Interior in the Age of Enlightenment (2024).
• Co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art (2019).

Her recent work examines St. Martin's Lane's role in the London art world and global design history, with publications in Journal of Design History, British Art Journal, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Current research focuses on artistic networks and geographic influences in mid-18th-century London.

• Kress Foundation Fellowship
• Huntington Library Fellowship
• Yale Center for British Art Fellowship
• American Philosophical Society Fellowship
• Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Fellowship
• Victoria and Albert Museum Fellowship

She teaches courses on architecture, design, and 18th/19th-century art, and serves on editorial boards for Bloomsbury's The Material Culture of Art and Design series and Studies in Romanticism.