Allison Leigh

Allison Leigh is Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO Board of Regents Support Fund Endowed Professor in Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a specialist in European and Russian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and her primary research interests include masculinity studies, the development of new art historical methodologies, the history and historiography of modernism, and the philosophy of art and aesthetics in the modern era.

Dr. Leigh received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University and she has published on topics ranging from the hybrid nature of 18th-century Russian portraiture to the prescriptions for male behavior in the 1840s and the role of social media in contemporary art history classrooms. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she formerly taught as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.