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Lauren Caskey

Lauren Caskey

Lauren Caskey

PhD Candidate

caskey.43@osu.edu

Lauren M. Caskey is a PhD Candidate studying nineteenth and twentieth-century art history—particularly French and American art. She is a Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Tyson Scholar and prior to pursuing her PhD, Lauren worked as a curatorial assistant and Print Room manager for the Saint Louis Art Museum. Lauren’s dissertation focuses on the American painter Alma W. Thomas—specifically her artistic relationship with Modernism and the cultural tensions she navigated throughout her career. Lauren’s research on Thomas was awarded the OSU’s Presidential Fellowship for the 2023-2024 term.