Katie DiDomenico

Katie DiDomenico is a PhD candidate in art history whose research focuses on early modern Dutch art in global and colonial contexts of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Her interests include the circulation of objects on trade networks, transcultural interactions, colonialism, materiality, and issues of identity, race, and representation. She is currently working on a dissertation about art and visual culture related to the Dutch colony of Suriname during the long eighteenth century and the ways in which a vision of the colony and its people was constructed by and for Europeans. Her case studies encompass historical works in a variety of media including maps, illustrated travel books, paintings, drawings, and prints that are placed in dialogue with examples of contemporary art by artists whose work concerns colonial inheritances in Suriname.