Emelie Gevalt (Ph.D. 2024) is the Deborah Davenport and Stewart Stender Deputy Director & Chief Curatorial and Program Officer at the American Folk Art Museum (New York City), where she has served as curator of folk art since 2019. Gevalt has organized multiple exhibitions at AFAM, most recently including An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles. Her current project, opening in fall 2026, is the exhibition Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art. Timed to coincide with the U.S. semiquincentennial, Locating Girlhood will both celebrate the creativity of early American girls and young women and critically examine the colonial and federal ideologies that structured their worldview.

Gevalt previously held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Christie’s, and in private collections management in New York.

Sarah Mead Leonard (Curatorial Track Ph.D. 2020) is the Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago. In this role she directs Newberry's robust program of short- and long-term research fellowships as well as overseeing undergraduate seminars taught at the library. She also continues to expand her work on William Morris and other aspects of 19th-century British art, material culture and landscapes. Her long-running Morris on Screen project, which documents Morris & Company patterns in film and television set design, was used by filmmaker Natalie Cubides-Brady to create the film Wallpaper for the 2025 William Morris Gallery exhibition Morris Mania. The intricacies of publication timelines mean that Sarah also anticipates three publications in 2026: a journal article for Victorian Studies and two chapters in edited volumes, focused respectively on the Morris on Screen project, Morris's 1883 fabric pattern Rose, and Morris's use of Indian indigo dye.

Mead Leonard’s past work includes roles at the Yale Center for British Art, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Delaware Art Museum, among other institutions.

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll (Ph.D. 2019) is the George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Richmond-Moll recently co-curated the landmark exhibition Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone, the first retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis, the first Black and Indigenous artist born in the United States to achieve international fame as a sculptor. The exhibition is co-organized by Shawnya L. Harris and the Georgia Museum of Art and supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation, and it will travel to the Georgia Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art after closing at the Peabody Essex in June 2026.

Richmond-Moll was a previous co-chair of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) and has written for numerous publications including Winterthur Portfolio, Archives of American Art Journal and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.