Grace L. Kuipers, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2024 Zuckerman Prize in American Studies for the best dissertation connecting American history with literature and/or art.
The prize is given in honor of Hyman Zuckerman and Henrietta Zuckerman Landis, parents of University of Pennsylvania Professor of History Emeritus Michael Zuckerman.
Grace’s dissertation, entitled “Mineral Modernism: The Mexican Subsoil and the Remapping of American Form in the 1930s?,” theorizes an aesthetics of extraction in the transnational dialogue between U.S. and Mexican art in the 1930s. Grace analyzes the ways in which perceptions of underground resources featured prominently in artistic theories about what was shared by U.S. and Mexican modernisms in the 1930s, as the United States renegotiated its access to the Mexican subsoil.
Please join us in congratulating Grace Kuipers.