Jeffrey Collins is Professor and Chair of Academic Programs at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, where he specializes in the visual and material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas.

He is the author of Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts (Cambridge, 2004) and was a principal contributor to Pedro Friedeberg (Mexico City: Trilce, 2009) and The History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400-2000 (Yale, 2013).

Educated at Yale and at Clare College, Cambridge, Collins is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a past Getty Scholar, having received grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon, Fulbright, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundations and the American Philosophical Society. He has published widely on early modern through contemporary painting, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, book illustration, furniture, and film; his new project traces the intersecting cultures of archaeology and museology by following an important group of ancient artifacts rediscovered in the 1770s and enshrined at the new Vatican museum.