Julia Carita (she/her) is a second-year MA student in art history, specializing in contemporary photography. She studies photographs, prints, and ephemera that serve the counterculture, particularly those that emerged from American punk and queer communities from the 1970s to the present. She is interested in experimental development techniques, zine culture, and the potential for art to foster community.

Julia graduated summa cum laude from Bucknell University in 2020, where she published an encyclopedia entry for Hilma af Klint with the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and studied the experiences and ephemera of World War I ambulance drivers through the Bucknellians in World War I project. She has held internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation and presented at the International Conference on Information and Education Technology in Koriyama, Japan (2018). Julia currently serves on the Arts Committee for the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia and previously worked as Gallery Manager for a Philadelphia-based contemporary art gallery.

Advisor: Dr. Erin Pauwels