Biography
Michaela Milgrom is a PhD student working on twentieth-century art. Her research addresses questions of abstraction, subjectivity, and cliché, especially in the postwar American context. She also has an interest in the history and politics of museums and collecting. Before graduate school, Michaela was Research Assistant for Mark Rothko Projects at the National Gallery of Art. There, she contributed to the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper (2023-24) and authored entries for the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Rothko's works on paper. Michaela holds an MA with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA summa cum laude from Princeton University, where her senior thesis was awarded the Irma S. Seitz Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. She is a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow.