Jenica Brown is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She studies late medieval and early modern Ethiopian art within broader cultural and geographical networks, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean world. Her research focuses primarily on paintings, from the monumental to the miniature, and textiles, including histories of costume and the depiction of textiles in other media.

Jenica received her B.A. in art history and Italian and her B.F.A. in painting from Indiana University in 2016, before completing her M.A. in art history at the University of Toronto in 2020. She is interested in strategies for presenting art historical and social narratives to the public within museum contexts and has interned at several museums, including the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 2024 she participated in the Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.