Karlee Bergendorff
Postdoc Fellow, School of Art
Art History
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Karlee Bergendorff is a Bridge-to-Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History. Her research and teaching interests center around memorial politics and international art exchanges during the global Cold War. Before joining UTSA, she was a John W. Kluge Scholar at the Library of Congress and a lecturer on memorial politics at the Archer Center, the Washington D.C. Campus for the University of Texas System. Previously, Dr. Bergendorff completed archival research as a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo and Seoul National University. She holds a Ph.D. in art history and visual studies and a graduate certificate in Middle Eastern studies from Duke University. Before her graduate studies, she completed research as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow on memorial politics, ruins, and artistic interventions in Argentina, Cambodia, Germany, India, Namibia, and South Africa. She is the first in her family to attend college and enjoys mentoring first-generation students as they navigate higher education and post-graduate opportunities.Teaching
- Memory, Monument, Museum
- History of Art & Conflict
- Seminar in Research Methods and Writing
Research Interests
- Memorial Politics
- Public Art
- International Art Exchanges
- Visual Cultures of the Global Cold War
Degrees
Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
