Elizabeth Keto

Elizabeth Keto studies American art. Her dissertation, entitled “Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1861-1900,” examines questions of representation, materiality, and the politics of labor and making in the postwar South and the afterlife of enslavement. She was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, and she holds master’s degrees in the history of art and in curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her professional experiences include work at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College (2018) with a degree in History of Art and Architecture, and her senior thesis was awarded the Matthew Abramson Prize. In 2024-25, she is the Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.