Collaborators

MaryClaire Pappas

Art Historian (PhD) and affiliated researcher in TiO2: How Norway Made the World Whiter

MaryClaire Pappas holds a PhD from Indiana University and an MA degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She currently works in the Department of Drawing and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has previously worked as a researcher at the Munch Museum in Oslo. In December 2023, MaryClaire will join the art history faculty at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her current book project Somatic Citizenship: Painting and Pedagogy in Norway and Sweden, 1910-1925 explores the intersection of color theory, national identity, and affect in modern painting.