Curriculum Development Team
Maggie Borowitz
Curriculum Intern: College Core
Maggie is a PhD candidate in Art History interested in the relationship between art and politics in late twentieth-century Latin America. Her research has focused especially on conceptual art in Brazil and Mexico. Her dissertation project, “Caught by Surprise: Intimacy and Feminist Politics in the work of Magali Lara,” considers alternative forms of political art in 1970s and 80s Mexico City. Maggie received her BA in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2013 and spent a couple of years working in art museum education and programming before returning to the University.
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy
Curriculum Intern: College Core
Zsofi is a PhD candidate in Art History, focusing on the intersections of postwar art, technology, and gender. She is working on a dissertation titled “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” Zsofi received a dual BA in Visual Arts and Linguistics from the University of Chicago (2013) and an MSt in English Language from the University of Oxford (2014), where her master’s dissertation traced linguistic changes in art criticism since the 1960s. She is also a practicing artist and holographer.
Bridgette Davis
Curriculum Intern: K-12
Bridgette is a doctoral candidate, Institute of Educational Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellow, and Point Foundation Alum at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Prior to earning her master’s degree in social service administration, Bridgette worked in both traditional and charter public schools in Atlanta and Chicago for 11 years. Her dissertation “Figuring Futures” is a mixed-methods, multi-level study that follows 31 low-income young adults and the staff who support them on the far south side of Chicago during the year after high school graduation as they pursue their post-secondary goals.
Heather Glenny
Curriculum Intern: K-12
Heather is a PhD candidate in English interested in the relationship between material culture and narrative. Her research orbits ideologies of sweat and exertion, popular culture and mass fashion, and theories of the body. Heather received her BA in Art History with an Honors in Education from Stanford University in 2016 and an MA in Art & Museum Studies from Georgetown in 2018, where she focused on Museum Education and Inclusion. Before beginning at UChicago she taught 10th and 11th grade IB English in Massachusetts, and has teaching experience in California and Vietnam.
Banner image: YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020. Photo by Alexandra Drexelius.