Dominique Rama
MA Student, Primary Area of Research: 19th-Century Western European Art
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Dominique Rama is a first-year MA student in the Art History program. Her primary area of research is in 19th-century Western European art, focusing on images of war and industrialization in Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism. She is also a Co-Curator of the Philippine Heritage Collection at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Before attending the University of Illinois Chicago, Dominique received an MA in Contemporary Curating from the Manchester School of Art in the United Kingdom. She holds a BA from the University of California Irvine, where she double majored in Art History and History and minored in Archaeology. She has curated for galleries in both cities, including an exhibition for MSOA's "PAC@75" a four-day celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress. She has also done archival research for the London Road Project and the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, UK.
Dominique also has experience in interpretive work, facilitating youth education programs, and more from volunteering at the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum in Los Angeles. She has excavated, cleaned, and repaired fossils collected on-site for an NSF-funded grant to develop food webs reconstructing the Los Angeles Pleistocene environment.