About
Megan is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department and is pursuing a graduate certificate in German Studies. Her broad area of interest is nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, with a particular focus on the historical avant-garde in Germany and Switzerland. Her research focuses on the historical avant-garde, with a particular interest in questions surrounding performance and its mediation within artistic networks. She is currently serving as the inagural Matthew Wong Foundation Research Assistant in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Prior to beginning her graduate studies at Michigan in 2018, Megan earned her BA in Art History from Millsaps College in 2014 and her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon in 2016, where her thesis research centered on issues of materiality and automatic modes of creation (and destruction) in Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn (1947-48). She also holds a diverse background in museum and archival settings, ranging from a curatorial internship in Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art to an internship in the ceramics laboratory at the Terminal Classic Puuc Maya archaeological complex Kiuic in Yucatán, México.
