Brittany Ellis

Brittany is a Ph.D. candidate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture program. Her doctoral research explores how the nascent practices of photography and archaeology came together in the European exploration of the Middle East, investigating both the role of photography in the articulation of archaeology as a scientific discipline in the nineteenth century and the subsequent position of archaeological photographs in institutional collections and disciplinary discourses. Her doctoral research has been supported by a Getty Library Research Grant and a Fulbright Research Award to France.

Brittany received a B.A. summa cum laude in Anthropology from Harvard University and an M.Phil. in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford as a 2019 Rhodes Scholar. She has worked on archaeological excavations in Macedonia and Jordan as well as at institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Pitt Rivers Museum, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.