Miranda L. Elston

Miranda L. Elston is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts at Carolina Coastal University's College of Humanities. Her research examines Early Modern English art and architecture through the lens of the Anglo-Atlantic World, focusing on cultural intersections in prints, travel narratives, and cartography.

• Ph.D. in Art History from UNC Chapel Hill
• M.A. in History of Design from Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt
• B.A. in History with Art History minor from Western Washington University

Key research areas include global Tudor art, colonial Americas visual culture, British Empire material histories, and public humanities. Her publications explore architectural symbolism in Basel, Dürer's religious art, Elizabethan miniatures, and Whitehall Palace reconstruction.

Awarded the Yale Center for British Art Visiting Scholar Award, Maynard Adams Public Humanities Fellowship, Paul Mellon Center grant, and Kress Applied Research Fellowship. Current projects involve completing a book on Henry VIII's architectural politics and initiating research on Tudor colonial visual culture.