ADVISOR

Professor Graham Bader

Chloe Millhauser is a PhD student studying interwar European avant-garde artistic practices, particularly German photography. Chloe’s most recent projects include a theory-based approach for examining German still life photography from the Neue Sachlichkeit genre and an investigation of Berlin Dadaist Raoul Hausmann’s knowledge of World War I–era prosthetic devices. She has presented her research at conferences organized both nationally and internationally. Chloe is also experienced in teaching, arts administration, and museum work. She has recently served as a Writing Coach for Rice’s First-Year Writing Intensive Seminars (FWIS) and is currently the 2025-2026 Rice University Curatorial Intern at the Menil Collection. She previously acted 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 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. While at Rice, she plans to expand upon her interest in German interwar photographic practices to investigate the Worker Photography Movement and the democratization of 20th century image-making.

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.