Elizabeth Keto

Elizabeth Keto studies American art. Her dissertation, entitled “Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1865-1900,” examines the role of images and objects in the remaking of social and political life in the postwar, postemancipation South. Her doctoral research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History. In 2025-27, she is the Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

 

Elizabeth holds master’s degrees in the history of art and curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where her graduate work was supported by a Marshall Scholarship. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College (2018) with a degree in History of Art and Architecture, and her senior thesis received the Matthew Abramson Prize.