Jennifer Marine

PhD Candidate


Jennifer Marine is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture program working under the direction of Professors Douglas Fordham and Christa Noel Robbins. Her research explores intersecting histories of science, technology, media studies, and gender. Her dissertation, Registering the Invisible in Fin de-Siècle Europe, examines late-nineteenth-century European technologies such as photography, X-rays, and sound recording devices to offer a broader understanding of representational practices at this pivotal moment in the history of modernism. Through these devices, she questions the definitions and categories of art, science, and technology in the fin-de-siècle era. Her work has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, a Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation at the University of Virginia. She is also one of the 2024-2025 recipients of the Joan and Stanford Alexander Award for dissertations on the history of photography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Over the course of her graduate career, she has worked in Digital Humanities, serving as a Praxis Fellow in the Scholars’ Lab in 2021-2022 where she co-created Your Name Here and writing code for other DH projects, including DIGITAL(ian) Journey, an Exploration of Goethe’s Italian Journey. She also co-curated exhibitions across the university, such as Everyone a Curator: The Langhorne Collection of 18th-Century Prints at the Fralin Museum of Art and Boomalli Prints and Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

Before arriving at the University of Virginia, Jennifer received her M.A. with Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her master’s dissertation used nineteenth-century ideas of physiological psychology and the materiality of George Frederic Watts’s portraits to challenge traditional interpretations of his late portraiture. She received her B.A from the University of Arizona in 2018 with a double major in Art History and French and a minor in Mathematics, graduating with Honors and summa cum laude.

Jennifer is currently in Rome, serving as a 2024-2025 Predoctoral Fellow in the research group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.