Hampton Smith
I am a doctoral candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research examines the art, material culture, and architecture across the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Currently, I am writing my dissertation, “Making against Slavery: Artisanry, Capitalism, and the Material History of Abolition in the United States, 1791-1902.”
In the fall, I am a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and, in the spring, will be the Andrew Mellon Fellow in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. My research has been supported by the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the American Ceramics Circle, the Decorative Arts Trust, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s Southern Studies Collection, among others.
Publications
EDITED VOLUMES
“Heat,” Thresholds 51. Co-edited with Zachary DeGuilio. Cambridge: MA, MIT Press, Spring 2023
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Tapping Canvases: George Inness, Turpentine, and Racial Capitalism,” American Art, Spring 2024.
“Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave Revolts” Journal18, Fall 2024.
REVIEWS