Camila Medina is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Temple University, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. Her research investigates the intersections of gender, embodiment, materiality, and technology as constitutive forces in twentieth-century abstraction. Her dissertation, Transforming Technologies: Women Abstract Artists in Cold War Latin America and the United States, examines how postwar women artists employed industrial materials and technological processes in their sculptural practice. Her work has been supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, the Tyler Rome Fellowship and other competitive internal grants.

Before pursuing her doctorate, Medina earned an MA in Communication Technologies and Aesthetics and a BA in Cultural Production in Brazil. She also received professional training in media art preservation at the Danube University Krems in Austria. Committed to pedagogical innovation, she completed the Teaching in Higher Education Certificate through Temple’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and has taught art appreciation and art history survey courses at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

She has presented her research at international conferences, including the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art and the College Art Association. Her interdisciplinary writing appears in Brazilian academic journals in sociology, media studies, and the visual arts.

 

Advisor: Mariola Alvarez, PhD