Rebecca Peabody

Rebecca Peabody is Head of Research Projects and Academic Outreach at the Getty Research Institute, where her research focuses on representations of race, gender, and nationality in twentieth-century American art and culture. Her scholarly publications include Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race (2016), as well as the four edited or co-edited volumes Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation (2021), Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator...See more

Rebecca Peabody is Head of Research Projects and Academic Outreach at the Getty Research Institute, where her research focuses on representations of race, gender, and nationality in twentieth-century American art and culture. Her scholarly publications include Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race (2016), as well as the four edited or co-edited volumes Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation (2021), Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (2015), Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945-1980 (2011), and Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945- 1975 (2011). She is also the author of the trade book The Unruly PhD: Doubts, Detours, Departures, and Other Success Stories (2014). See less