Roxanne Goldberg

Roxanne Goldberg is an art historian and academic editor. In 2025, she will be a PostDoc at ETH Zürich. Roxanne's research examines how discourses of race and religion are negotiated through collections and displays of material culture. She explores these questions in her HTC/AKPIA dissertation, "Persian Lessons: Islamic Art in America, circa 1876–1925." Situating instances of collecting, classifying, displaying, studying, and otherwise handling and beholding Islamic art at different scales of home and in various pedagogical contexts, "Persian Lessons" reveals the surprising story of how Islamic art was instrumentalized in the service of competing American identities and ideologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Roxanne previously held curatorial research positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. While at MIT, she served on the Committee on the Library System from 2018 to 2021.