Rachel Boate

19th- and 20th-century art history and visual culture in Europe and the Americas; interwar art and politics; theories of the avant-garde; histories of abstraction; art and mass culture; politics of display

PhD, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, 2020

MA, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, 2013

BA, University of Virginia, 2009

Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia, 2021-2022

Department of Art and Art History, Marymount Manhattan College, 2019-2020

Department of Art History, New York University, 2018-2020

“Fernand Léger’s New Realism: Painting for the People in 1930s France.” In Realism(s) of the Avant-Garde and Modernism (New York: de Gruyter, 2020).

"Questioning the Void: Sophie Calle's Archival Subversions." In France and the Visual Arts Since 1945: Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art, ed. Catherine Dossin (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2018).

"East-West Relations at a Crossroads: German Reunification and the GDR Ampelmännchen," Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture 10 (Fall 2017).

"Abstraction-Création." Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross (London: Informa UK Limited, 2017).

"La Métromanie" and "Subway (1949)." In The Work of Jean Dubuffet. MRC Dossier 1. 2014 Museum Research Consortium Study Sessions, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2014).

2018, Visiting Graduate Fellow, Provost's Global Research Initiative, NYU (Paris)

2016-2018, Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2015-2016, Georges Lurcy Fellow, Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, Commission Franco-Américaine

2015, Visiting Graduate Fellow, Institut Remarque, École normale supérieure, Paris

2015, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Fellowship, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS/École normale supérieure (UMR 8066, CNRS/ENS), Paris

2013, Research Grant for the Archaeology, Heritage and Mediation Colloquium, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation