Monica Anke Hahn

Monica Anke Hahn

Monica Anke Hahn (PhD, 2017) teaches in the art department and the honors curriculum at the Community College of Philadelphia.  She studies representations of indigenous peoples in eighteenth-century British imperial contexts. Her research has been funded by the Andrew H. Mellon Foundation, the NEH Global Book Histories Initiative, The Library Company of Philadelphia, the HIstorical Society of Pennsylvania, the Lilly Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the Maryland Historical Society, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Hahn's essay, "Dramatizing the Encounter: The Performative Body in John Webbers, 'A Man of the Sandwich Islands, Dancing'" appears in Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition (Sarah Lippert, ed., Routledge, 2018).