Frances Cathryn
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Research
Writing
Curatorial projects
Editing
Guest lectures & teaching
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Frances Cathryn is an art historian who studies the ways American culture shapes a common understanding of the past. Through her curatorial projects, editorial work, and critical writing, Frances contributes to debates in art history concerning place-based memory, the ethics of representation, and the role of material culture in mediating unresolved pasts within the present. Across her work, Frances emphasizes collaborative and public-facing methodologies that reconsider how historical narratives are constructed and circulated within U.S. art and cultural discourse.


Photograph by Michael Valiquette.
06.Guest lectures & teaching

  1. Sites of Struggle: Critical Memory & Black Landscapes, a roundtable conversation, February 25, 2025, Sarah Lawrence College
  2. Research Protocols and Investigations in Colonial Archives, September 20, 2024, Bard College
  3. Coloniality in Mass Media: ARH 201 Visual Communications, April 15, 2022, Providence College
  4. Writing & Editing for Research: MSMS-GA 3991, Museum Studies Research Seminar, April 5, 2022, New York University
  5. Denying Historical Surveillance, January 25, 2022, Rhode Island School of Design
  6. Memory & Trauma: MSMS-GA 1500 History & Theory of Museums, December 1, 2021, New York University