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Biography

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Dr. Emily Thames specializes in the visual and material culture of the colonial Atlantic world with a focus on the Spanish Americas and the Caribbean (c. 1500-1900). Her dissertation project considered Jos茅 Campeche, a Puerto Rican artist working in San Juan during the late-18th and early-19th centuries.

Dr. Thames completed her B.A. with honors at the University of 糖心视频 in 2010. She received her M.A. in 2012 from the University of North Texas, writing her thesis on a set of buttons allegedly painted by Italian artist Agostino Brunias and worn by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L鈥橭uverture. As a Ph.D. student at Florida State University, she received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the College of Fine Arts Dean鈥檚 Student Achievement Award, the Mason Dissertation Research Award, the I.N. Winbury Award, the COGS Conference Presentation Support Grant, and the Helen J. Beard Conference Travel Grant. During the summer of 2018, she held the Object Research and Teaching Programming Internship position at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.