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Ashley D. West is Associate Professor of Art History at Temple University and a Visiting Fellow at Bard Graduate Center for Fall 2024, where she researched sixteenth-century Augsburg's materials and technologies as sites for negotiating global and local experiences in everyday life.
Her scholarship centers on printmaking history and theory, Holy Roman Empire art (c. 1500), and cultural transmission through travel, trade, and collecting practices. She investigates knowledge dissemination via portable objects, pilgrimages, warfare, and early collecting, with publications on early etchings, German Renaissance history painting, antiquarianism, and representations of African/Indian coastal peoples. Her current book reevaluates the German Renaissance through Hans Burgkmair the Elder's works.
Her scientific awards include:
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Fellowship
- Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- BildEvidenz: History and Aesthetics Visiting Fellowship
West serves as Vice President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art and receives ongoing research support for her work on visual knowledge translation in the German Renaissance.
