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Welcome! My name is Elizabeth Bacon Eager, and I am an art historian specializing in the transatlantic history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and material culture, with a focus on intersections between art, science and technology.

I earned my B.A. in architecture from Yale University in 2004, my M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, and my Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University in 2017.

My current book project brings together images and objects from both the fine and the mechanical arts to consider the relationship between drawing, the body, and the production of technical knowledge in early America’s industrializing society. This work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies/Luce Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the American Antiquarian Society.