Frances Cathryn
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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.
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Frances is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century American art. Her research focuses on material culture and the built environment as sites where history and collective memory are produced and contested.

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