Undergraduate Honors Thesis — Boston University, 2025
Becoming a New Kind of Woman: Media, Identity, and the Red Army Faction Through the Art of Katharina Sieverding, Astrid Klein, and Rosemarie Trockel
For my Art History honors thesis, I researched how the works of contemporary West German artists Katharina Sieverding, Astrid Klein, and Rosemarie Trockel were influenced by the cultural and political climate surrounding the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) during the 1970s and 1980s. I examined how media portrayals of left-wing female terrorists intersected with the global women’s liberation movement and shaped each artist’s identity and practice.
My 45-page thesis received multiple awards, including the Core 2025 Distinction in the Social Sciences Award and the Brown/Weiss Endowment Fund, which supported my archival research in Berlin and Düsseldorf at institutions and galleries including the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sprüth Magers, and Galerie Thomas Schulte.
You can read my full thesis and grant proposal below.
My Thesis
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My Brown/Weiss Endowment Fund Grant Proposal
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