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Molly K. Eckel is the Shackelford Family Assistant Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. She defended her dissertation, "Robert S. Duncanson's Antislavery Allegories," in May 2025. 

Her graduate work at Princeton was supported by the Mary Clothier Slade Graduate Fellowship in Art History, the George S. Heyer Graduate Fellowship in American/Modern Art History, the Davidson Family Fellowship at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Council on Science and Technology University Administrative Fellowship, and the Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of American History.  

She earned an A.B. from Wellesley College and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Prior to undertaking graduate work at Princeton, she served as the Marcia Brady Tucker Curatorial Fellow for the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery.