Alison L. Hilton is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art, Music and Theater.
She is the director of Georgetown's new M.A. Program in Art and Museum Studies

Her major area of research is on Russian and Soviet art; she also teaches courses in Modern Art; Nineteenth Century Art, Twentieth Century Art, American Art, Contemporary Art, Impressionism, Russian Art, Women and Art; Art and Popular Culture in Russia.

She has given seminars on a variety of topics, including: Matisse, New Realism, Iconography of Modern Art, Modern Art and Public Issues, Art and Literature in the Late 19th Century, Art of the 1930s, Twentieth Century Women Artists, Cultural Cannibalism, The Russian Avant-Garde; Art of the 21st Century; Myth and Modern Art, Arts of Russia, Art Confronting Difference.

Hilton earned her B.A. degree in Art History from Vassar College and M.A, M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. She also had academic exchanges at Leningrad State University and Moscow State University.

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Hilton held teaching positions at: University of Connecticut, Storrs; Indiana University, Bloomington; and Wayne State University, Detroit. She also has held curatorial and research positions at the Hillwood Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.

Hilton's recent publications include the book Russian Folk Art and articles and chapters on Impressionism, nonconformist art and on women and gender issues in Soviet art. She is working on a book on Russian Impressionism and an edited volume on myth and modern art.