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Rachel Stephens is a Professor of Art History specializing in American art and architecture at The University of Alabama. Her research focuses on 19th-century American visual culture, particularly antebellum Southern art, race representation, and political portraiture. She earned her PhD from the University of Iowa, MA from Vanderbilt University, and BA from Sewanee: The University of the South.
Her notable works include Hidden in Plain Sight (2023), examining slavery’s visual erasure in Southern art, and Selling Andrew Jackson (2018), analyzing portraiture’s role in Jackson’s presidency. Stephens has held prestigious fellowships at institutions like Crystal Bridges Museum, Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center, and CASVA. She teaches courses on Southern art, American architecture, and slavery’s visual legacy, including seminars like 'Slavery and American Art.'
Recent presentations include discussions on slavery and architecture at SECAC (2023) and a symposium on transnational plantation paintings (Bogotá, 2021). Her media engagements include Christian Science Monitor interviews linking Jackson’s portraiture to modern political contexts.
