​Carolyn Hauk is a first-year M.A. student interested in studying American art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her previous research and curatorial projects have addressed representations of race, gender, and intersectional identities in art created during periods of great socio-political change. Her experience with works on paper has also allowed her to explore and expand upon the ways in which marginalized artists pushed against oppressive social systems while gaining critical representation in the arts. Carolyn has often turned to visual culture and structuralist methodology to blend her educational backgrounds in art history and history. In 2021, she graduated summa cum laude from Gettysburg College where she earned her B.A. in Art History and her B.A. in History with minors in Italian and Public History. She has also held internships with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her digital exhibition “Likenesses of Liberty and Resistance in William Still’s The Underground Railroad” was recently published on the NPG’s Google Arts & Culture collection in January 2022. Carolyn is originally from Chicago where she cultivated a love for the arts in its vibrant museums and galleries.