Hannah Prescott
PhD Candidate, Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Art History and Archaeology
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Education
B.A., , Wellesley College
Research Expertise
Early Modern Studies
Hannah Prescott is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the visual and material culture of the early modern Dutch Republic and its global landscape. She is especially interested in the ways in which materials generated meaning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and her dissertation focuses on how the materiality of linen informed its use and interpretation in artistic, domestic and mercantile spaces. Hannah earned her BA in Art History from Wellesley College (2017), and has worked in the curatorial departments at The Frick Collection, The Walters Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Hannah is a Kress-predoctoral fellow supporting research related to the Dutch Textile Trade Project--a digital humanities platform that explores the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.