Ramey Mize is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. From Atlanta, Georgia, she holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The majority of her research and publications to date examine the intersection of nineteenth-century art, gender, and material culture in Europe and the United States. Previously, she worked as the Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, where she curated the exhibition Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision (2014) and contributed essays to the catalogues Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College Museum of Art (2015) and A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (2016). She also spearheaded a number of diverse campus and community outreach schemes, including the formation of a Student Advisory Board to the Colby Museum as well as "Young Curators," the first-ever teen program in the history of the institution. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Expanding the Audience for Art in the Nineteenth Century at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery. Together with Naoko Adachi, she curated Traversals at New Boon(e) in 2016.

rmize@upenn.edu