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Graduate Student

Krystle Stricklin

Contact

kes178@pitt.edu

Advisor(s): Kirk Savage

Krystle Stricklin is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture department. She studies American art and photography with a focus on issues of cultural memory and monuments in the public sphere. Her MA thesis examied WRA propaganda films of the Japanese-American internment and their engagement with entrenched notions of nationality and identity. She also has a strong interest in the exchange of photographic methods and material culture between the U.S. and Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Education

PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2014-present

MA, Florida State University, Department of History and Criticism of Art, 2014

BA, Florida State University, Department of History and Criticism of Art, 2012

Selected Awards

Friends of Frick Fine Arts Travel Grant, 2015

Arts & Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2014, 2015

Graduate Research Assistantship, Florida State University, 2013-2014

Helen J. Beard Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence in the Major, 2012

 

Selected Conferences

Co-Chair, "Trading Places: Migration, Displacement, and Visual Culture," Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-24, 2015.

 

"Reassembling the Past: Thomas Demand's Büro and the Politics of Memory," Southeastern College Art Conerence, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-24, 2015.

 

"Reassuring Voices and Shifting Narratives in Tom Parker's Films of the Japanese American Incarceration," Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, September 20-22, 2013.

 

"Memorial Cranes Trapped in Barbwire: Untangling Language and Memory of the Japanese American Incarceration," Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, NC, October 30-November 2, 2013.

 

"Propaganda Portraits: Easing American Anxieties Through WRA Films," Atlanta Graduate Student Conference in U.S. History, Emory University, November 15-16, 2013.