Brooke Eastman is a PhD candidate in the department, focusing on Land Art in the United States from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Her dissertation examines Land Art's relationships to legal and cultural conceptions of property in the U.S. and works to restore Indigenous land histories and epistemologies to the sites of these earthworks. She holds a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship in American Culture Studies and a Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellowship.

 

Brooke has held curatorial positions at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Leighton House Museum, the historic home of Victorian artist Sir Frederic Leighton, where she worked on its 2022 expansion and institutional reimagining. She holds a BA in History of Art from Yale University, where she was awarded the A. Conger Goodyear Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis on Constantin Brancusi's studio-museum, and a MA in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she wrote her dissertation on the Interwar fashioning of American cultural heritage through a usable past.