Joseph H Larnerd

Joseph H. Larnerd is a writer and material culturist whose work attends to the social histories of the decorative arts, especially in the United States. He lives and works in Philadelphia where he is an assistant professor of design history at Drexel University. Multiple institutions have supported his research with fellowships or grants. They include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Winterthur Museum, the Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Corning Museum of Glass. Larnerd earned his PhD in art history from Stanford University in 2019. He is a first-generation college graduate.