Dr. Rebecca Peabody Biography

Rebecca Peabody is Head of Research Projects & Programs at the Getty Research Institute. She earned a joint PhD from Yale University in the History of Art and African American Studies and focuses her research on representations of race gender and nationality in twentieth-century American art and culture.
Her scholarly publications include Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race (forthcoming in 2016) the edited or co-edited volumes Lawrence Alloway Critic and Curator (2015) Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945 – 1980 (2011) and Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture 1945 – 1975 (2011) as well as essays in journals edited volumes and exhibition catalogs.
Her trade book The Unruly PhD: Doubts Detours Departures and Other Success Stories (2014) is a collection of first-person stories recounted by former graduate students who have successfully reached the other side of a PhD – and are willing to speak frankly about the challenges and decisions they faced along the way. She has taught at Yale University and the University of Southern California.

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