Jenica Brown is a Ph.D. student studying late medieval and early modern Ethiopian art within broader cultural and geographical networks, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean world. Her research focuses on paintings, from the monumental to the miniature, and textiles, including the depiction of textiles in other media and histories of costume.

Jenica received her B.A. in art history and Italian and her B.F.A. in painting from Indiana University in 2016, before completing her M.A. in art history at the University of Toronto in 2020. She is interested in strategies for presenting art historical and social narratives to the public within museum contexts and has interned at several museums, including the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.