Temple University

Lauren M. McCardel is the executive director of the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, an AAM accredited academic museum dedicated to cultivating dialogue and understanding through innovative exhibitions and programs that are always free for all. Over the last decade she has been committed to increasing access to the arts and art education and to creating platforms for critical discourse and connection through visual art. She has held previous positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. 

McCardel’s scholarship focuses on 19th-century global and transcultural modernisms, exploring the intersections between art, labor, and gender. Her research centers on the international Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, examining how the Arts and Crafts ideal in the fine and decorative arts affected women and other minority groups working in art, craft, and other visual media c. 1870-1914.   

MA in Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013 
BA in Art History, Messiah University, 2010

Primary Advisor: Erin Pauwels, PhD