Robert Colby
Robert Colby is an art historian by training with a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He worked in the museum field for five years before pursuing applied visual studies research at UNC School of Social Work where he served as co-investigator of a National Institutes of Health-funded project on implicit bias. In 2014, he became a grants officer at Ohio Humanities, the state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2020, Robert established a consulting practice for non-profit strategic planning. For scholarship in late 19th century transatlantic culture and aesthetics, he has received research fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
As a Logan fellow, Robert will be working on “Anglo-Saxon Complex: Racialized Caste and the Legacy of an American Heritage.” The book explores the little understood history of Anglo-Saxonism to shed light on ethnonationalism in the United States.