about

Genevieve Westerby is a doctoral candidate in Art History Department at the University of Delaware specializing in nineteenth-century European art. She is interested in the intersections between art and science, with a particular focus on the entangled histories of industrialization and environmentalism and how artists approached this complicated relationship. She has also worked on topics related to the history of collecting and exhibitions, and technical art history.

She is currently working on a dissertation that examines late-nineteenth-century French landscape painting in the context of river engineering and its environmental effects.

Prior to attending the University of Delaware, Genevieve was a research associate at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of Europe, where she worked on a series of digital collection catalogues and two major traveling loan exhibitions. She earned her MA in art history from the University of Denver and her BA in art history from Webster University in Saint Louis.