Horace D. Ballard is the Theodore E. Stebbins Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums, USA. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century US portraiture, colonial men's fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion in the Americas. He has held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.