Mia Curran

PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center

Mia Curran is a PhD candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, Aaron Douglas’s Figurative Returns, 1925–75, reconsiders the artist’s six-decade career through the prism of circulation, positioning his shifting figurative idioms as negotiations of their changing locations, publics, and conditions of transmission. She has taught at Hunter College, Fordham University, and the City College of NY, and has held curatorial positions at the Tate, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum. Her research has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Racial Imaginary Institute, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.