Temple University

Jessica Braum is a Ph.D. candidate whose research encompasses post-war developments in the art of Southeast and East Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with particular attention to the intersections of art, culture, and globalization, and a focus on feminist theories and methods in transnational art. Her dissertation, tentatively titled Print and Sculpture in the Global Field: Transnational Feminism and the Recuperation of Kim Lim’s Artistic Practice, is in progress. It explores how colonialism, globalization, and gender limited contemporaneous engagement with Lim’s work, resulting in a narrow and misrepresentative canon of post-war British and Southeast Asian art.

Jessica is a graduate extern with the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, where she employs digital technologies, including ARCGis and Omeka, to enhance her dissertation research. Before attending Temple University, she led the sustainable fashion brand Hepi Prints and served as a docent at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. She currently serves on the College Art Association’s Committee on Research and Scholarship and as the Graduate Representative for the Society of Contemporary Art Historians.

MA, Printmaking, University of the Arts London, 2006
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, 2002

Advisor: Alpesh Kantilal Patel