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Meredith Martin

Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Meredith Martin is Professor of Art History at New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts and a founding editor of Journal18. She received her PhD from Harvard and her B.A. from Princeton. A specialist in early modern French art and empire, she is the co-author (with Gillian Weiss) of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty, 2022), which won the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, the David F. Pinkney Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Kenshur Prize from the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (The French edition, Le Roi-Soleil à la mer: Art maritime et galériens dans la France de Louis XIV, was published by Éditions de l'EHESS in 2022.) Martin is also the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard, 2011), and a co-author of Meltdown: Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (2020), which is related to an exhibition she co-curated for The New York Public Library. Together with the choreographer and activist Phil Chan, Martin reimagined and restaged a lost French ballet from 1739 known as the Ballet des Porcelaines, which premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and was performed throughout the U.S. and Europe in 2022. Her current project explores links between land ownership and enslavement in late 18th-Century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and the Paris art world.