Author Biography
Originally from the United States, Kira Randolph is an art history Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research explores the American reception of Australian Aboriginal art and culture during the forties, fifties, and sixties. Prior to beginning her Ph.D. in 2009, she studied a Master of Arts in Museology at the University of Washington. Her Masters thesis was a comparative analysis of Aboriginal art exhibitions within Australia to those in France and the United States. In addition to her research, Kira has taught classes in Australian, New Media, and Indigenous art.