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Emily Pugh, PhD, is Principal Research Specialist at the Getty Research Institute, where she specializes in projects related to digital art history and architectural history. She received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, where she focused on postwar architecture as well as digital humanities. Her expertise within digital art history centers on the digital media of art history and its related infrastructures, which encompasses the digitization of physical materials, 3D scanning, and computer vision (an approach to image analysis based on artificial intelligence). Emily has been active in CAA in a number of ways. She has regularly contributed to the annual conference, organizing panels and presenting talks on topics related to architecture and to digital art history as well as co-organizing a professional development workshop on digital publishing at the 2017 conference. She also participated in the CAA THATCamps that were organized in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Emily has been involved in CAA affiliated societies as well, having served as an officer for the Historian of Germans and Central European Art and working for many years as the web designer and developer for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, the online publication of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Emily’s work at the forefront of the technologies of art historical research and scholarship is part of what motivates her to join the CAA Executive Board. Such technologies are changing how art history is practiced, offering both challenges and opportunities to the discipline. Emily hopes her experience and insights on such topics would provide helpful context to the Board in making decisions or developing policy. Indeed, Emily is committed the profession and is eager to contribute to the continued relevance of art history and cultural heritage. 

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