Kedra Kearis (PhD, 2023) is the Associate Curator of Art and Visual Culture at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Previously, she researched the paintings collection at The Barnes Foundation, where she served as a faculty member in adult education. Kearis is the author of “‘Her Own Room Will Be a Picture’: Alva Vanderbilt’s Bedroom à la Pompadour at Marble House (1892) by Jules Allard et Fils,” for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (2024). She has received grants and fellowships in support of her research from the Association of Historians of American Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Preservation Society of Newport County, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Global Literacy and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University. Kearis serves on the Board of Directors at the Alliance Française de Philadelphie.