Elliot M. Krasnopoler, PhD. is an interdisciplinary visual artist and art historian working at the intersection of materiality & the environment.

Elliot is the 2026–27 Smarthistory Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College with the dissertation “What the Earth Remembers: Landscape and Materiality in Contemporary Art,” which examines how artists’ material engagement with land and place unearths new understandings of American history. He earned his B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in photography, as well as an M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College. Elliot has published essays in History of Photography and the edited volume Breaking the Silence: Methods of Writing Art History, and he was the 2021–22 George Gurney Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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