Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from sixteenth-century board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, and ArLis, and in edited volumes and magazines. Wood’s first book based on her PhD from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press. In 2025 her new projects turn toward craft production in sixteenth-century Goa, India, based on her field work as a Fulbright US Scholar to India in 2022–23 and as a Berenson Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in 2024. Wood’s scholarship has also been generously supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in 2021–22, the Michigan Society of Fellows, a CASVA Kress fellowship, and the Fulbright Italy. Wood curated the permanent gallery A Global History of Sport of the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup.