Hampton Smith
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I
Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, he is writing his dissertation, “Making against Slavery: A Material History of Abolition in the Early United States.” and has also begun working on a second project, “King Pulp and the Preservation of the Modern South.”
Their scholarly work has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, among others. They are also a Junior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
For the 2025-2026 academic year, they are the Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History.