ADVISOR

Professor Graham Bader

Chloe Millhauser studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and North American art, with an emphasis on the German interwar period. Her dissertation research engages with German colonial history and fantasies as they relate to modernism and the Weimar visual arts, tracing motifs of tropical plant life to study how they represent anxiety and power in relationship to land and national identity. Chloe is also passionate about teaching, publishing, and curatorial work. Beyond acting as a Writing Coach for Rice’s First-Year Writing Intensive Seminars (FWIS), Chloe was a 2025-2026 Graduate Curatorial Intern at the Menil Collection as well as a 2022–2023 Getty Graduate Intern for Getty Publications in Los Angeles, CA, where she assisted in developing and editing books for the J. Paul Getty Museum, Research Institute, and Conservation Institute. She has been awarded the 2026–2027 Jameson Fellowship for American Painting and Decorative Arts at the Bayou Bend Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Chloe holds an MA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside and a BFA with honors in Art and Design with a concentration in Studio Art from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 

PUBLICATIONS

“Charles Egan Gallery,” “Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries,” and “Marie Sterner Gallery.” In Bloomsbury Art Markets: Protagonists, Networks, Provenances, edited by Jonathan Maho. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., Mar 2023.

“Perspectival Subterfuge: Gerda Leo’s Use of the Photographic Uncanny.” In The Uncanny and the Afterlife of the Gothic, edited by Manuela D’Amore, 101–121. London, UK: Interdisciplinary Discourses, Oct 2021.

“Introduction,” Photography from the Collection, 5–6. Upland, US: Sasse Museum of Art, Nov 2020.