Alison Boyd

Alison Boyd currently serves as the Director of Research and Interpretation at the Barnes Foundation, a position held since September 2023. Previously, Alison was an Assistant Professor and Director of the Art History Research Master's Program at Utrecht University from September 2020 to August 2023, focusing on modern and contemporary art, particularly African diasporic art and theories of decolonization. Prior experience includes roles as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Phillips Collection and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where research centered on artistic and political claims in America during the 1930s-1940s. Earlier work involved postdoctoral research at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, a research fellowship at the Winterthur Museum, and a Dissertation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Alison Boyd earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Vassar College.