History of Art and Architecture

Emily Hirsch studies the art of the early modern Netherlands. Her dissertation explores the creation, function, and use of clay sketches and models by Flemish sculptors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries between the Southern Netherlands, Dutch Republic, and England. Emily's research has been supported by the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Government of Flanders.

Emily received her BA in history from Yale University (2016) and MA in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2018). She has co-curated exhibitions at the John Hay Library at Brown University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Prior to Brown, she worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art.