Vanessa Bateman

Vanessa Bateman completed a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with a Specialization in Anthropogeny from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) at UC San Diego in 2022. Her work analyzes the representation of animals in North American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century until the present, informed by the environmental humanities and animal history. Vanessa is a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University (Netherlands) on the project “Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media, and Policy in the Twentieth Century.”