Dissertation: Morisot Rêveuse
Advisor: Leo Costello
James McCabe is a sixth-year doctoral candidate whose research focuses on gender, colonialism, and nationalism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. His dissertation, Morisot Rêveuse, examines French Impressionist Berthe Morisot’s later artworks to piece together the relationship between the bourgeois interiors of the metropole and the French colonies. During his time at Rice University, James has served as the Art History Faculty-Graduate Student liaison and the Humanities Graduate Student Association President. In Spring 2023, James co-organized the Department of Art History and Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality graduate student conference, “Where are our women artists?: Linda Nochlin’s Question in the Age of Feminist Visual Culture” with fellow graduate student Lauren Lovings-Gomez (https://2023ricehartconference.blogs.rice.edu/). During Summer 2024, he participated at the Harvard Art Museums’ Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) workshop on “Time.” Before attending Rice, he received a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2015 and an MA in Art History from Tufts University in 2018.