Profiles

Rachel Smith is the Gilkison Chair and Professor of Art History at Taylor University, Indiana. She was a member of the graduate faculty of the School of Comparative Arts at Ohio University prior to joining the faculty of Taylor in 1998. She earned her doctorate from Indiana University with specializations in Italian Renaissance, Medieval, and Asian art. Smith also served on the board of CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts) for many years and is a founding member of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA), for which she currently serves as the president.