​Gabrielle Clement is an M.A. student studying American art and photography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is particularly interested in photography’s role in constructing America’s national and cultural identity in a post-Reconstruction landscape. In 2020, she received a B.A. in American Studies and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her honors thesis in American Studies explored photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston and her garden images in connection to gender, social and historic preservation movements of the Progressive era. Gabrielle has experience in archival management and curation, working for many years at the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley and as a freelance archive preparer for architects across the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she has worked as a copy editor and a non-profit fundraiser in Seattle.​