Amy Henderson

Amy H. Henderson recently completed her doctorate in American art history at the University of Delaware. Her research is on late eighteenth-century Philadelphia architecture and interior decoration with a particular focus on the roles women played in creating and using their material culture in the past. Henderson has developed an understanding of the decorative arts and material culture through her work at several museums, including the National Museum of American History, The Walter’s Art Museum, Bard Graduate Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Her quilt scholarship includes research on the reception of Lancaster County Amish quilts by twentieth-century collectors. She received her B.A. in art history from Grinnell College in Iowa and her M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware. Her graduation gift for completing her dissertation was a new sewing machine, a gift that (she hopes) will allow her to become a master quiltmaker one day and join the ranks of the amazing women she studies.