Replace this with your Artist StatementSusan Waller is an independent scholar and art historian art whose research focuses on the social history of artists and models in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is professor emerita of art history at the University of Missouri—St Louis. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MA from Boston University, and a PhD from Northwestern University. She currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine.

In addition to essays in journals including Oxford Art Journal, The Art Bulletin, Art History, and Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, her publications include two books--The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (Ashgate, 2006) and Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History (Scarecrow, 1991). Her most recent volume is collection of essays, co-edited with Karen L. Carter, entitled Foreign Artists and Communities in Paris, 1870-1914: Strangers in Paradise (Routledge, 2015).