Jeffrey Collins

professor, art history, Bard Graduate Center

Professor Jeffrey Collins received BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Yale, and a BA and MA from the University of Cambridge. Before arriving at the Bard Graduate Center in 2003, he was associate professor of art history at the University of Washington, Seattle. A scholar of 17th- and 18th-century Italian art, he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and recipient of Andrew W. Mellon, Fulbright, and American Philosophical Society Fellowships. He is the author of *Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts *(Cambridge, 2004) and has contributed to publications including the *Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*, *Eighteenth-Century Studies*, *The Burlington Magazine*, and *Ricerche di Storia dell Arte*.