Ithaca College

Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor in Art History, has been awarded a Core U.S. Scholar Fulbright award to the University of York in the United Kingdom to support research into her project, "Entangled Lives: The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray (c.1770s-80s) and the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Rank in British Portraiture." 

The portrait was the inspiration for Amma Asante's 2013 film, Belle, but has not been the focus of art historical research. Professor Germann will be preparing two scholarly articles that contextualize this portrait and the lives of the two sitters in Georgian Britain. As a fellow, she will be in residence at the History of Art Department and will lead graduate student seminars, give a public lecture, and complete research in London and Edinburgh. 

For more on the remarkable story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, click here.