Research Interests
- Histories of architectural modernism
- Histories of collecting and display
- Intellectual history
- Histories of race and the built environment
- Material cultural studies
- Histories and politics of space
Education
BA, Honours in History, University of British Columbia
MA, Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies, New York University
Bio
Pilar Dirickson Garrett is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) at UT Austin, where she specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architectural histories of Latin America. Her areas of interest include institutional and exhibition histories, histories of collecting and display, histories of architectural modernism, intellectual history, material cultural studies, and politics of space, race, and the built environment. Pilar’s dissertation project, titled “An Architecture of Things: The Making of Race, Space, and Region in Exhibitions of Brazilian Popular Art, 1930–1965,” examines the emergence of museums and exhibitions of Brazilian popular art from the 1930s through the 1960s for their relationship to conversations on race, place, region, and nation during the interwar and postwar periods. Her scholarship has been generously supported by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, both at the University of Texas at Austin; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Tinker Foundation; and the Foreign Language Areas Studies (FLAS) Program through the U.S. Department of Education, among others. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies and Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in History with Honours from the University of British Columbia.
Research Interests
- Histories of architectural modernism
- Histories of collecting and display
- Intellectual history
- Histories of race and the built environment
- Material cultural studies
- Histories and politics of space
Education
BA, Honours in History, University of British Columbia
MA, Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies, New York University
Bio
Pilar Dirickson Garrett is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) at UT Austin, where she specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century art and architectural histories of Latin America. Her areas of interest include institutional and exhibition histories, histories of collecting and display, histories of architectural modernism, intellectual history, material cultural studies, and politics of space, race, and the built environment. Pilar’s dissertation project, titled “An Architecture of Things: The Making of Race, Space, and Region in Exhibitions of Brazilian Popular Art, 1930–1965,” examines the emergence of museums and exhibitions of Brazilian popular art from the 1930s through the 1960s for their relationship to conversations on race, place, region, and nation during the interwar and postwar periods. Her scholarship has been generously supported by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, both at the University of Texas at Austin; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Tinker Foundation; and the Foreign Language Areas Studies (FLAS) Program through the U.S. Department of Education, among others. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies and Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in History with Honours from the University of British Columbia.