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Claire Dillon '14

Claire is a PhD student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University, where she studies the intersections of visual cultures, identities, and faiths in the medieval Mediterranean. She works to diversify narratives of the Middle Ages and correct their misappropriations in extremist movements. Her work has been supported by the SSRC and through History in Action project awards from Columbia’s Department of History.

 At Northwestern, she received the J. Carson Webster Prize for her thesis about issues of identity negation, negotiation, and solidarity in reinterpretations of work by artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She was previously Director of Education and Outreach for the nonprofit ART WORKS Projects and a Mitchell Scholar at Trinity College Dublin.