Elizabeth "Anne" McCauley is a prominent art historian and professor of art and archaeology. She served as the David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University. Her scholarship focuses on the history of photography as a modern medium, exploring its social contexts, commercial applications, and relationship to other media like painting and printmaking. She has conducted extensive archival research in France and the United States, producing groundbreaking works on early professional photography in Paris during the Second Empire, fashion photography, and the American Pictorialist movement. Her work is noted for combining deep archival investigation with broad conceptual analysis of materiality, circulation, and visual culture.[1]
