Emily L. Spratt is a Byzantine and Renaissance–Baroque art historian with specialization in Venice, Byzantium, and the early modern Mediterranean world. Spratt completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University under Professor Patricia Fortini Brown and Professor Slobodan Ćurčić and wrote her thesis on the artistic and cultural legacy of Byzantium. Spratt also holds an M.A. from Princeton in Renaissance art, an M.A. in Byzantine art from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from Cornell University. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University, Spratt’s current research also incorporates contemporary approaches to the image with emerging computer vision-based technologies, and the bourgeoning ethics discourse in this domain. Spratt has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including those from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Cini Foundation, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institution, the American Research Center in Sofia, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library. Also a consultant in the arts, cultural heritage and preservation management, and the technology sector, Spratt advises Iconem (Paris), the Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (New York), The Frick (New York), Exponential Impact (Colorado), and the Defense Innovation Accelerator that is a part of the National Security Innovation Network (Washington, D.C.).