Christine Quach
PhD Candidate, Early Modern Northern European Art, Art History and Archaeology
Education
M.A., Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
B.A., Art History and French, University of California, Berkeley
Research Expertise
Digital Humanities
Early Modern Studies
Material Culture
Christine is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, studying early modern northern European art with Professor Elizabeth A. Honig. Her research interests include material culture, collecting practices, cross-cultural exchange, domestic interiors, and the mediating power of objects in social rituals.
Prior to joining the department, Christine served as the web editor at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens from 2015-2021. She received her BA in Art History and French from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013 and earned a MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2014. Her thesis entitled “A Huff and a Puff: How Bellows Produce Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Alchemist Paintings in the Netherlands” examines the role of bellows in revealing the dual nature of early modern alchemists as serious scholars and foolish charlatans.