Jennifer Raab specializes in the arts of the United States and the history of photography. Her scholarship engages with the history of science and medicine, the environmental humanities, and the visual and material culture of war, racial violence, and memory.
At Yale, Raab teaches courses on American art and the history of photography, most often based on university collections. Her courses explore topics such as the material histories of photography, contested monuments, the representation of nature, landscape theory, photojournalism, and the relationship between art and extraction. She is an affiliated faculty member of the programs in American Studies, the History of Science and Medicine, and Public Humanities, and has served on the steering committee of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program since its inception in 2017.