Sara Phillips de Borja

Sara Phillips de Borja is a Lecturer in Art History at Principia College, where she teaches interdisciplinary art history courses. She holds a BA from Principia College, a CPGS from the University of Cambridge, and an MA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her teaching emphasizes firsthand experience with artworks.

Her research specializes in European art history, particularly:

• Religious symbolism in 17th-century Dutch art
• 19th-century European painting traditions
• Works of Jules Breton and Anne-Louis Girodet
• Interdisciplinary connections between art and theology

She maintains professional memberships with the College Art Association and Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.