Sarah E. Rogers Morris
PhD Candidate: Modern Architecture and Photography
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About
Sarah Rogers Morris is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the American Women’s History Initiative Curatorial Assistant at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. Sarah’s research interests include global histories of architectural modernism, the material culture of photography, and the social and cultural foundations of education. Her research on photography in and of the modern school revises the history of American architectural photography by revealing its transnational formation and imperial origins between 1890 and 1950. During her year-long appointment at the Renwick, Sarah will contribute to State Fairs: Growing American Craft, a survey of craft at American state fairs from the nineteenth century to the present.
Sarah holds an MA in the history of design, decorative arts, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center and a BA in art history from New York University. Her work has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of American History, and the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her writing has been featured in a variety of scholarly and popular web and print publications, including Future Anterior, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Architect's Newspaper, and Pin-Up. Sarah has worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade, including at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Mies van der Rohe Society, and most recently, as Executive Director of the Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation. She is an active member of the Society of Architectural Historians, enthusiastic participant in the Hannah Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading Group, and library volunteer at her kids’ public school.