Professor Athanassoglou-Kallmyer teaches the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art with special emphasis on the art and culture of France from the 1780s to the early 1900s. She is interested in the history of ideas and issues of political and social ideologies as they intersect with aesthetic and critical responses, and in the interaction between artistic production and popular, folkloric and mass culture. Her work tackles three areas primarily, French Romanticism, late Impressionism, and the revival of a Classical aesthetic in France, England, Germany, Italy and Greece in the context of emerging nationalist identities, international imperialist expansion and transnational exchanges.
She is the recipient of awards, such as the CAA's Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize; the C.I.N.O.A book award (runner up);and the CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award (finalist). She has held fellowships including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; a J. P. Getty Fellowship; an ACLS fellowship; a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study; a Senior Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA); a J. Stanley Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University; and an American Philosophical Society fellowship.