Claire is a PhD Candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and a 2022-23 Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She studies the intersections of visual cultures, identities, and faiths in the medieval Mediterranean, focusing on Sicilian textiles and their place in the historiography of the Global Middle Ages. She was a 2017 Mitchell Scholar and studied Medieval Language, Literature and Culture at Trinity. While there, she interned for Art for Amnesty, served on the board of the Global Undergraduate Awards, which is based in Dublin, and worked as a research assistant transcribing twelfth-century copies of Old English texts for Professor Mark Faulkner’s digital corpus. Prior to the Mitchell Scholarship, Claire worked as the Director of Education and Outreach for ART WORKS Projects, a nonprofit organization that uses art exhibitions and documentary films to raise awareness of human rights issues. She received degrees in Art History and Italian from Northwestern University, and also interned and studied in Bologna, Italy; Havana, Cuba; and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile. At Northwestern, she was a Mellon Mays Fellow, Editor in Chief of Northwestern Art Review, and an executive member of the largest student-run human rights conference in the US. In addition to her doctoral research, Claire is committed to public scholarship, having contributed to the NEH-funded Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute in the Digital Humanities, the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project, and organizations including the United Nations, UNESCO, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Her work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Medieval Academy of America, and RaceB4Race, among other institutions. Claire obtained her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.