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Megan Baker is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,” considers the ascendent popularity of pastel portraits in late eighteenth-century British North America. Megan holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. from Williams College. Her work has been supported by the American Antiquarian Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the Huntington Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Unidel Foundation, among others. She is a 2024-2025 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

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