Brooke Eastman

Brooke Eastman is a PhD student in the department, focusing on American and trans-national modernisms at the turn of the twentieth century. She holds a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship in American Culture Studies and a Dean's Distinguished Fellowship. For her dissertation, she plans to examine trans-national and intermedial artistic exchange through the practice of Florine Stettheimer as a painter, poet, designer, and critical node of international modernisms.  

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.