Dissertation Title: "Black Art in White Narratives: The Transatlantic Network of Afro-Brazilian Studies in the Early Twentieth Century"
Advisor: Fabiola López-Durán
University of Oxford, BA, English Language and Literature
University of Chicago, MAPH (Master of Arts Program in the Humanities), Art History
Lee specializes in Afro-Brazilian modernism and its transatlantic network. More broadly, she is interested in Afro-Latin American art and the historiography of the reception of African art in Europe and the Americas. Lee is the recipient of the Camfield Fellowship (2021-22) and the Marilyn Marrs Gillet International Travel Fellowship (2021-22).
- Major & Minor Specializations
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Major: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
Minor: Histories and Theories of Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Race in the Afro-Atlantic World
- Awards
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2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Summer Research Award
2021-2022 William A. Camfield Graduate Fellowship (Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, MFAH)
2021-2022 Rice University Humanities Research Center’s Lectures, Symposia, and Speakers Series Award
2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Student Invited Speakers Award
2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Summer Research Award
2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Exhibition Travel Award
2020-2021 Rice University Humanities Research Center’s Lectures, Symposia, and Speakers Series Award
- Publications
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- Curriculum Vitae