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Lynne Lee

Lynne Lee

PhD Candidate

Department of Art History

CONTACT

ll77@rice.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE

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Advisor 

Fabiola López-Durán

DISSERTATION TITLE

“Black Art in White Narratives: Early Afro-Brazilian Art History at the Crossroads of Science and Aesthetic”

Lee is currently writing a dissertation on the early reception of Black art in Brazil. By focusing on four medically trained scholars who authored some of the first publications on Afro-Brazilian art, she examines the intersections between race theories, eugenics, modernization, and the writing of art history in Brazil. Her broader interests include the history and culture of the African diaspora in the Americas. 

Publications

“Dismantling Archival Images: Rosana Paulino’s Collages as a Vehicle of Paradox,” Ideias (May 2025).

Review of Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic by Matthew Francis Rarey. African Arts (forthcoming).

“Nádia Taquary: Uncovering Afro-Brazilian Stories,” C& América Latina, May 15, 2024, https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/nadia-taquary-uncovering-afro-brazilian-stories/

Research Areas

Latin American modern and contemporary art; Afro-Latin American art

Education

MAPH (Master of Arts Program in the Humanities), Art History, University of Chicago

BA, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

Honors & Awards

2023 Brown Foundation Co-Teaching Award, Department of Art History, Rice University

2022 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Fellowship (“Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities”), Rice University

2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Summer Research Award

2022 Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University

Fall 2022 Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Research Grant

2021-2022 Rice University Humanities Research Center’s Lectures, Symposia, and Speakers Series Award

2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Student Invited Speakers Award

2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Summer Research Award

2021-2022 Rice University Art History Graduate Exhibition Travel Award

2021 Graduate Camfield Fellowship (Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, MFAH), Department of Art History, Rice University

2021 Marilyn Marrs Gillet International Travel Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University

2021 Lectures, Symposia, and Speakers Series Award, Humanities Research Center, Rice University

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