Graduate Student

Annika joined the History of Art and Architecture Department in 2012 with a background in art history, urban studies, and museum studies. Her specialization is American art and design with an emphasis on printed materials. For her MA thesis Annika is currently investigating identity constructions in nineteenth-century frontier culture as imagined and reinforced through mass media images of death and the memorialization of frontier conflict. Other projects include an examination of the primacy of American folk arts in depression-era theories of American culture and national aesthetics. Larger questions concerning visual knowledge and identity construction drive her research and she strives to implement idea-driven thinking in the classroom and exhibition environments as well.