Meredith S Martin
استاد · 18th- and 19th-Century French and British art
New York Universityمعرفی
Meredith S Martin is a Professor of Art History at New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Princeton University. Her research focuses on 18th- and 19th-Century French and British art, architecture, and material culture, with particular attention to histories of empire, colonialism, enslavement, art and gender politics, cross-cultural encounters, and historical revivalism. She is a founding editor of Journal18 and co-creator of the Ballet des Porcelaines, a reimagined 18th-century French ballet that premiered at the Met and toured internationally in 2021–22.
Her current projects include a study of links between late 18th-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and the Paris art world, supported by a Kress Digital Art History Award (2025–26) and a NYU Digital Humanities Seed Grant (2024). She has also co-written and produced a film with the National Gallery in London and is co-curating a 2026 exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe on enslaved Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean.
Her 15 most recent publications span topics such as maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV’s France, porcelain’s cultural symbolism, and colonial intersections in global art history. These works emphasize visual culture, postcolonial critique, and materiality across Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.
Martin has received numerous scientific awards, including the Iris Foundation Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar Award (2025), the Kress Digital Art History Award (2025–26), and multiple 2023 accolades for her book The Sun King at Sea, such as the Leo Gershoy Prize and David F. Pinkney Prize. She also secured significant fellowships, including the Provost's Global Research Initiatives Fellowship (2019–2020) and the ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship (2016–2018).
Her teaching includes courses like Art and Money in the Early Modern World and Architectural Space and Decoration in Eighteenth-Century Europe. She has advised numerous institutions and exhibitions, including collaborations with the Morgan Library and Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
