Erika Foster
Erika was awarded her Master’s degree in Medieval History from the University of Edinburgh and her Master’s degree in Information Management and Preservation from the University of Glasgow. She received her Bachelor’s in History and a minor in Medieval Studies from Seattle University. Additionally, Erika has attended archaeological field school in Cortez, Colorado, headed a Medieval Manuscripts and Rare Early Modern Books project at Seattle University’s Lemieux Library Special Collections, worked as an assistant archivist at the Falkirk Callendar House, and participated in a research workshop researching and curating medieval cartularies at the National Library of Scotland.
Erika’s primary area of study is legal and literary history in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, with an overarching emphasis on historical and archival theory and methodology.
Abigail King
Abigail earned a Bachelor’s in History and a minor in Classics from University of Kentucky before going on to graduate from Tufts University with a Master’s in History and Museum Studies. She has edited for the Education Abroad department’s blog at University of Kentucky as well as for the Tufts Museum Studies newsletter/blog. Abby’s research interests, including her research for her BA and MA theses, involve women in the ancient Mediterranean and medieval gender and sexuality studies. She has worked with material culture through internships with well-known museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. She continues to foster her love of writing at her current position at a wellness center by stepping up as an editor of their business’ blog.
Victoria Moore
Tori earned her Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University where she double majored in History and Political Science. She remained at Tufts to complete a Master’s of Art in History and Museum Studies. As a master’s student Tori’s research interests centered around the English Reformation with a focus on the role of women in political, religious, and social change during the Reformation Era. She is broadly interested in the complex interplay between church and state during the Early Modern period and the various forms of propaganda that were utilized during this time. Tori has worked in various museum settings in the Boston area such as the John F. Kennedy Museum, King’s Chapel Historic Site, and the Worcester Art Museum
Reb Xu
Reb received their master’s degree in history at Tufts University, and their primary area of study is the history of medicine, science, and technology.
They earned their bachelor’s degree at Tufts University, majoring in History, International Relations, and Russian and Eastern European Studies. Their research interests also include death studies, environmental history, food history, and history and memory.
Maille Radford
Maille earned the first joint bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University where she focused on integrating a scientific understanding of materials with interpretations of modern and contemporary art. As a Marshall Scholar, she earned an MA in History of Art at University College London and, with an interest in digital forms of art and its reception, subsequently pursued an MSc in Computing Science at Imperial College London. She has previously interned in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies of the Harvard Art Museums.
Her research primarily focuses on the implications of modern materials and technological innovations.
Mia Uribe Kozlovsky
Mia recently earned her MA in art history from Tulane University, where she focused on modern and contemporary Latinx/a visual culture. She holds a BA in art with a specialization in art history from Reed College. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century Latinx/a printed and graphic works, examining how they contribute to international queer and feminist community building. She has worked as a bookseller, art conservation assistant, and teaching assistant. She is currently the James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas Press.
Her research interests include: colonial, modern, and contemporary Latinx and Latin American art history and history, representations of race in the Americas, craft and ritual in modern and contemporary frameworks, feminist, queer and Marxist methodologies, artistic networks, collaborative artmaking, and social practice art.
Katherine Jemima Hamilton
Kat Jemima Hamilton is a Canadian/American curator and educator born and raised on the unceded land of the Ligwilda'xw, Klahoose, K'omoks, and Homalco First Nations. She currently works in the lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in San Francisco/Yelamu, where she is pursuing a Masters of Curatorial Practice and Visual + Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. She has held institutional positions in the Curatorial Research Bureau, SFMOMA, Art Practical, co-founded CCA Exhibitions’ Review Rewind Respond column, co-directed the PLAySPACE Gallery, and co-founded In.Forum: A Common Room for Curators, Artists, and Designers. She has also lived and worked in the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Six Nations, and the Huron-Wendat in the wampum peace treaty land of Dish with One Spoon, known to many as Tkaronto, Ontario. There, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Toronto and held institutional positions in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Art Metropole, and the U of T Art Museum.
Her research interests include feminism and technology, craft and ritual in contemporary frameworks, and unsettling practices for institutions.
Mary Manfredi
Mary earned a Bachelor's in History with a minor in Art History from Rosemont College before graduating from Villanova University with a Master's in History with a Public History concentration. Her research interests revolve around American material and visual culture. Mary has held archival, museum education, and curatorial positions. She currently works for the American Art department at Bonhams in their New York office.
John Shorter
John Shorter is a graduate student at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, specialising in archaeology, memory, and marginality. His research intersects bioarchaeology with medical and plantation history to investigate the physical impact of slavery, and other exploitative labour regimes, on the skeletal remains of Afro-Caribbean populations. Oral history, class relations, and the role of alternative archives also feature prominently within the parameters of his analysis. He is an executive board member of the Archaeological Society of Jamaica (ASJ) and a research assistant at The UWI Mona’s Centre for Reparation Research (CRR).