Béatrice Duchastel de Montrouge (she/her) is a first-year PhD student whose research focuses on contemporary artists and the ways they use the forms of museum installations, memorials, monuments, and public art to critique the power structures found in traditional institutional spaces and traditional modes of histories.  
 
Duchastel de Montrouge graduated from Brown University with a BA with honors in American Studies and the History of Art and Architecture. Her senior thesis focused on murals in the city of Providence, RI and the ways they make meaning for various stakeholders. She has presented her original research on memorials and public memory at multiple conferences, including the New England Museum Association and the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University’s Undergraduate Research Conference. Prior to starting her PhD, Duchastel de Montrouge worked across multiple art, museum, and collection settings, including as a research intern for an industrial arts nonprofit organization, a curatorial assistant for the Brown University Campus Collections, and, most recently, as the Public Programs Coordinator at the Museum of Work and Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Within these roles, she has organized and curated numerous exhibits, created interpretation and programming for various art collections, and aided in the organization and researching of collection information. 
 
BA American Studies (with honors) and History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, 2023