Caitlin Beach

Assistant Professor of Art History

Faculty Memorial Hall 443
Fordham University-Rose Hill Campus
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458

Phone: 718-817-4892
Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: By appointment

Education

Biography 

Caitlin Meehye Beach is an Assistant Professor of Art History, Affiliated Faculty in African & African American Studies and interim co-director (2023-24) of the Asian American Studies Program at Fordham.  Her teaching and research focus on transatlantic art histories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Areas of interest within this include sculpture and the decorative arts, and art’s intersection with histories of racial capitalism and racial formation. 

Caitlin is the author of Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (University of California Press, 2022), which was a recipient of the 35th Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Phillips Book Prize from the Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland. Research for this project was supported by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Decorative Arts Trust, and the Royal Academy of Arts. She is currently at work on a book project on the visual and material cultures of Asian and Afro-Asian diasporas in the nineteenth-century United States. Previous writing on sculpture, race, and other topics has appeared in British Art Studies, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Art in America, as well as various edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.

Before coming to Fordham Beach taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.  She holds an A.B. from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.