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Jennifer Raab is a Professor of History of Art at Yale University, specializing in American art, the history of photography, and the intersections between art, science, and environmental humanities. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Her research explores themes such as the material culture of war, racial violence, memory, and colonialism, with a focus on 19th-century American landscapes and transregional artistic exchanges.
Her most recent book, Relics of War: The History of a Photograph (2024), examines a Civil War-era photograph of Clara Barton's artifacts from Andersonville prison, interrogating themes of national memory and state responsibility. Earlier works include Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail (2015), which redefined approaches to 19th-century landscape painting through scientific discourse analysis.
Raab teaches courses on photography's material histories, contested monuments, and environmental humanities, and is affiliated with Yale’s American Studies, History of Science and Medicine, and Public Humanities programs. She leads the Environmental Humanities Program steering committee and mentors graduate students in transregional art studies, earning the 2021 Graduate Mentor Award for her teaching excellence.
Her research has been supported by the Mellon, Wyeth, and Terra Foundations, and her scholarship spans art history journals like Art Bulletin, Art History, and American Art. She co-curated major exhibitions including Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance (2018) and is completing Frederic Church: Global Artist for 2026.
