Emma Gagnon is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is writing her dissertation on early printed images of Indonesia in the Dutch Republic. Her other research interests include the material and visual culture of Early Modern travel, domesticity and gender in Dutch cities—particularly Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia), and botanical images of comestible commodities in Dutch travelogues. Before her doctoral studies at UCSB, she received a B.A in art history Summa Cum Laude from New York University in 2013, and an M.A in art history with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 2015. In addition to her teaching experience at UCSB, Emma has held positions in publishing, collection management, and curation in New York and London. Most recently, Emma was awarded the Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship from UCSB’s Graduate Division, as well as research grants from the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, and the Getty Research Institute in support of her dissertation.