3. Second Vice President

Meredith Martin is associate professor of art history at NYU and the Institute of Fine Arts. Specializing in French art and architecture from the 17th to 19th Centuries, she is the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard University Press, 2011), and a co-editor of Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (special issue of Art History, 2015) and Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors (Ashgate, 2010). Along with historian Gillian Weiss, Dr. Martin has recently completed a book entitled The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Slavery in Louis XIV’s France, for which they were awarded an ACLS Collaborative Fellowship (2016-2018). She is currently working on several projects, among them an exhibition on the 1720 Mississippi and South Sea bubbles that will open at The New York Public Library in October 2020; a study of diplomatic and artistic relations between France and Thailand (c. 1650-1900); and a history of porcelain rooms from the 17th C. to the present, which includes the restaging of an 18th-C. ballet known as the Ballet des Porcelaines. Dr. Martin is a founding editor of Journal18 (www.journal18.org), an online journal devoted to 18th-C. art and culture from around the globe. She wishes to expand ASECS’s interdisciplinary focus while making it more diverse in membership and more global in scope. She would also like to brainstorm new conference formats and to bring members together by having them perform tableaux vivants at conferences.

Douglas Fordham is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia and the Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD Program in Art and Architectural History. He is a co-editor of Art and the British Empire (Manchester UP 2007, winner of the Historians of British Art book prize) and British Art and the Seven Years’ War: Allegiance and Autonomy (UPenn, 2010). His most recent book, Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire was published by Yale University Press this year. The book examines how a tonal, and often hand-colored, print medium shaped the representation of global travel and colonization between 1770 and 1820. Fordham has been a fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, the Folger Library, the Rare Book School, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He recently completed a Mellon Fellowship for Indigenous Arts at the University of Virginia where he integrated collections and histories of Australasian indigenous arts into courses on the eighteenth-century and British art. He served on the ASECS Board as a Member-at-Large in 2018-19, and he served on the advisory boards of Literature Compass and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Having benefited in countless ways from the collaborations and friendships that ASECS helped to make possible, Douglas would like to expand the number of young scholars in the Society and encourage the participation of scholars from a wide array of disciplinary and geographic specializations.