Expertise

Dr. Burns’s research analyzes the circulation of artists and objects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and interprets how mobility shapes visual culture and cultural discourses of modernism and nationalism. It asks how circulation is framed within the materiality of objects, and how meanings change through transit.

Dr. Burns offers courses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and U.S. art, constructions of race in visual culture, the arts of Asia, Introduction to Art History, and Foundations of Art History I.

Communities
Arts
Degrees
PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, Art History and Archaeology