Grace Kuipers is a postdoctoral fellow at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied 20th century art. Her dissertation, entitled Mineral Modernism: The Mexican Subsoil and the Remapping of American Form in the 1930s theorized an aesthetics of extraction in the transnational dialogue between U.S. and Mexican art in the 1930s. As a scholar of global modernism, Grace’s research interests converge around issues of race, imperialism, and environment in the arts of the Americas. She has worked on diverse projects surrounding the racial politics of ornament, the labor of nude modeling, and the lives of commissioned portraiture, with geographical focuses that span Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Prior to her arrival at Berkeley, Grace spent 2015-2016 in Berlin, Germany on a fellowship supported by the Fulbright commission, to study the ways in which nineteenth-century museum display strategies intersected with nascent theories of both modernist formalism and citizenship. In addition to her professional experience teaching and researching, she has held positions at the de Young Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2014.