Allison Leigh is a feminist art historian who specializes in European and Russian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is an Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO & Board of Regents Support Fund Endowed Professor in Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she is the author of The Misogynists: A Reckoning With Modern Art (forthcoming from Abrams in November 2026 & Manchester University Press in March 2027), Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation (Manchester University Press, 2023). Her primary research interests include the study of masculinity, the development of new art historical methodologies, the history and historiography of modernism, and the philosophy of art and aesthetics in the modern era.
Dr. Leigh received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University, where she also served as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Russian and Soviet Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She has been invited to present her research at numerous international museums and universities, including the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, the Netherlands Institute for Art History at The Hague, Yale University, UCLA, and New York University. She formerly taught in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
She is represented by Elias Altman at Massie McQuilkin & Altman.
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @professorleigh
A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she is the author of The Misogynists: A Reckoning With Modern Art (forthcoming from Abrams in November 2026 & Manchester University Press in March 2027), Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation (Manchester University Press, 2023). Her primary research interests include the study of masculinity, the development of new art historical methodologies, the history and historiography of modernism, and the philosophy of art and aesthetics in the modern era.
Dr. Leigh received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University, where she also served as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Russian and Soviet Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She has been invited to present her research at numerous international museums and universities, including the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, the Netherlands Institute for Art History at The Hague, Yale University, UCLA, and New York University. She formerly taught in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
She is represented by Elias Altman at Massie McQuilkin & Altman.
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @professorleigh
Image credit for author photo (above): Photograph and paintings by John Hathorn (2026)