Review of Edgar Heap of Birds

Professor Jessica L. Horton is a scholar of modern and contemporary art, specializing in Native American politics, globalization, and environmental justice. Her courses span global contemporary, American, and indigenous topics, with a focus on the transnational and transcultural movement of people, objects, and ideas. She was awarded a Wyeth Foundation for American Art publication grant for her book, Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation (Duke University Press, June 2017). Her current research includes studies of the unsettling role of Native American objects in U.S. arts diplomacy abroad during the Cold War, collaborations between French and American Indian artists and performers in the 1930s, and the intersection of indigenous knowledge, ecocriticism, and contemporary art. She is an affiliate of the Delaware Environmental Institute and the Center for Material Culture Studies.

Professor Horton earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and a B.A. in Art History and Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities/Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Museum of the American Indian Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Wyeth Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, a Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, and a Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency in Giverny, among other awards.