Katie Altizer
PhD, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art, Art History and Archaeology
Education
, , University of Edinburgh
Research Expertise
Digital Art History
Digital Humanities
Early Modern Studies
Katie Altizer earned her Ph.D. studying seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art with Arthur K. Wheelock. Her dissertation reevaluates the art of Jan Weenix (1641-1719) in relation to the environmental history of the Netherlands, showing how late seventeenth-century politics influenced the genre of game painting and transformed ideas of art, nature, and natural resource management in the Dutch Republic.
Katie completed a M.Sc. in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. After graduating, Katie held a collections internship at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. After returning to the United States, Katie worked for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, completing cataloging and digitization projects at the National Herbarium.
In 2019, Katie was a Curatorial Fellow at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.