Jennifer Roberts

Jennifer L. Roberts is an American art historian. She serves as Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her research and teaching focuses on American art from the colonial period to the present.

Education Roberts attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, where she initially studied human biology before ultimately double-majoring in English and art history, though she did not begin the latter until her senior year. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1992.

Works Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (Yale University Press, 2004) , American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Prentice Hall, 2007) , Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print (Harvard Art Museums, 2012) , Transporting Visions: the Movement of Images in Early America (University of California Press, 2014) ,