Rachel Himes

Rachel Himes

Rachel Hunter Himes joined the PhD program in 2020. Her research interests emphasize the decorative arts and material culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe as sites for the development and promulgation of racial ideology. She holds a BA in Religious Studies from Brown University and a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to studying at Columbia, Rachel worked as the Assistant Museum Educator for School Programs at The Frick Collection. She has held internships at The Frick Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she provided curatorial assistance to the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, on view from March 2022 through May 2023, and contributed a chronology to the exhibition's publication. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Jacobin, and the Journal of Museum Education.