Graduate Student
Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: Modern and Contemporary art; museum history; craft history; folk art; art and migration
Faculty Advisor: Jenni Sorkin
M.A. Thesis: "Staging a Modern Nation: The Art and Architecture of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair" (Hunter College, City University of New York, 2019)
Bio:
Alida R. Jekabson is a fourth-year PhD Student in the History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She holds an MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her research explores the histories of American modern art and craft in commercial and institutional spaces, including world’s fairs, department stores, and museums. She also investigates how Latin American modernism and the ancient arts of the Americas were represented and circulated in these venues, particularly in relation to U.S. diplomatic and cultural narratives throughout the twentieth century.
Jekabson's publications include contributions to exhibition catalogues and peer-reviewed journals such as Kunstlicht, react/review: a responsive journal for art and architecture, and Miradas: Journal for the Arts and Culture of the Américas and the Iberian Peninsula. She is also a contributor to the forthcoming anthologies Craft in Extremis: Survival and Creativity in Modern War and Genocide, c. 1890–1950 (Manchester University Press) and Craft and War: Makers, Users, and Craft Practices Since the 19th Century (Bloomsbury), for which she also served as a co-editor.