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McKenzie Stupica

McKenzie Stupica is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History, specializing in comparative and non-Western modernisms with a particular interest in transnational networks of pedagogical exchange and institutional collaboration. Her dissertation, "Making Ulm Work: Latin America’s Experiments in Design Pedagogy, 1955–1973," bridges its historical research on the post-World War II German design school, the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, with a theoretical questioning of the agency of education and its institutions in shaping the emerging contours of twentieth century design pedagogy in Latin America. Since advancing to candidacy, McKenzie has conducted extensive onsite archival and museum research in Argentina, England, Germany, and Mexico. Over the years, her project has benefited from the interdisciplinary collaboration, curatorial experience, and resources offered through the Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship, the Mellon Foundation's Chicago Object Study Initiative Fellowship at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellowship.