Will Edgar
Will Edgar is a doctoral student researching the art and architecture of the socialist world in the latter half of the twentieth century. His work considers how theorists and practitioners of art within the socialist world understood modernism and defined their own ideas in relation to it. Major areas of interest include the development of socialist realism as an explicit critique of modernism in the Soviet-aligned states of postwar Eastern Europe and, by way of contrast, the prominent role of modernism in articulating Yugoslavia's alternative vision of socialism within the Non-Aligned Movement. Will received his MS in Architecture (History and Theory) from the University of Washington in June 2024. He holds a BA in History and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Will is a Mellon Fellow in Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies at Northwestern.