Madeleine Luckel

Madeleine Luckel’s research interests center on the depiction of ornament and plants in art, decorative arts, and material culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While at Columbia, she has participated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program, served on the Wallach Art Gallery’s Steering Committee, and received a Lee MacCormick Edwards Fellowship. She has presented her research at the annual Cambridge–Columbia Symposium in the History of Art and at the Columbia University Art History Graduate Colloquium. Currently, she is the department’s Lead Teaching Fellow and a member of the university’s Committee on Art Properties. Previously, Madeleine has held curatorial internships at The Met’s Costume Institute, Philadelphia Museum of Art, de Young Museum, Museum at FIT, RISD Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a Senior Design Editor at Architectural Digest, Living Writer at Vogue.com, and Features Associate at Vogue. Madeleine holds an MA in Costume Studies from NYU and a BA in Classics with Honors from Brown University, where she graduated magna cum laude. 

Selected Publications

“Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550–1700,” Review of Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550–1700, The Hispanic Museum & Library, New York, November 6, 2025–March 22, 2026, in Fashion Theory, 1–7 (May 2026): doi:10.1080/1362704X.2026.2662760.

“Marie Antoinette Style: An Exhibition Catalogue Review,” Review of Marie Antoinette Style, by Sarah Grant, London: V&A Publishing, 2025, in Journal18 (November 2025): https://www.journal18.org/8031.

“The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art’s Enduring Intersects” in Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way, eds., Food and Fashion, London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, 261–286.        

“Picture Perfect: Hermès, Its Silk Scarves, and Twenty-First Century Experiential Events” in Amanda Sikarski, ed., Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies, New York: Routledge, 2020, 2022, 19–37.

Photo: Tamara Gibson