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M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone is professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta. Betsy works on nineteenth and twentieth-century art in the United States, Spain, and Latin America and is particularly interested in transnationalism, world's fairs, and animal studies. She is the author of Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914 (Yale 2007) and “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915 (Penn State University 2019). And her most recent publication is a co-edited anthology called Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America (Routledge, 2025).
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