Elisabeth Fraser specializes in the history of art from the 17th to 19th centuries in Europe and the Ottoman Empire, teaching classes on travel, collecting, and global material culture. She is the author of Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 (Penn State University Press, 2017) and Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France (Cambridge University Press, 2004). A recipient of research fellowships from the NEH, DAAD, Getty, and AAUW, among others, she has recently edited a volume of essays, The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean, and is currently writing a book on Ottoman costume albums and their relationship to European print culture, Dressing the Ottoman Empire: Early Modern Costume Albums and Transculturation.