Anne Higonnet is an American art historian. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor at

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Col ...

Biography

Higonnet received her BA from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1980 and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

in 1988. She was an assistant professor at

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficia ...

before joining the

faculty. Higonnet's scholarship focuses on 19th century art, art collecting, and the history of childhood. She created an online project with the

Morgan Library & Museum The Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is situated at 225 Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th ...

on fashion plates from the ''

Journal des Dames et des Modes ''Journal des dames et des modes'', was a French fashion magazine, published between 1797 and 1839..Kate Nelson Best, The History of Fashion Journalism' Until the 1820s, the magazine had almost international monopoly as a channel of French fa ...

'' from 1797 to 1804 to demonstrate the revolution in women's fashion during the early 19th century, namely, how women turned their underwear into outerwear, adopted Indian textiles, and invented the handbag. She is a biographer of

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...

. Her students include

Denise Murrell Denise Murrell is a curator at large for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She is best known for her 2018 exhibition ''Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today'', which explored ...

, curator at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 100 ...

. Higonnet was a 2019-2020

Radcliffe fellow The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

. She also received a 2001

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. She is currently married to Yale University economist

John Geanakoplos John Geanakoplos (born March 18, 1955) is an American economist, and the current James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University. Background and education John Geanakoplos was born to a Greek-American family of scholars. His father was th ...

. In 2010, Higonnet was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. She was accused of having opened the car of a parent's vehicle, grabbed the parent's collar and yelled at them for using the Everit Street back gate of the Worthington Hooker Middle School, according to New Haven police. She faced a fine of up to $500 or up to three months in jail. The case was dismissed five months later, after Higonnet voluntarily served 10 hours of community service and wrote a “letter of regret.”

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