[1] She studied art history Vassar College and the University of Maryland, where she received her PhD.
[3] She is specialized in the work of the Flemish painter Michael Sweerts, on whom she wrote her dissertation, which was published in 2015.
[6][7][8][9] Before her appointment at the Leiden Collection she was interim curator at the Clark Art Institute.
[10] Since 2022, she has been the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
[11] Yeager-Crasselt has extensively published on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the dynamics of artistic exchange between the Low Countries and Italy, and issues of artistic mobility, identity, and collaboration: