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Madalen Claire Benson

Land-based contemporary art practices; critical settler studies; the politics of land, including land rights and land use management; liberalist property law; extractive capitalism and environmental justice.
Research Interests: 

Land-based contemporary art practices; critical settler studies; the politics of land, including land rights and land use management; liberalist property law; extractive capitalism and environmental justice. 

Office: 
Porter D227
Selected Publications: 

“Cannupa Hanska Luger: Sé’sh Shóto’sh Psí’sh.” Journal of Modern Craft. Forthcoming (exhibition review in a peer reviewed journal).

“Stitching the Wound: Land-Based Gestures of Healing and Resistance in the Work of Postcommodity and Maureen Gruben.” Environment, Space, Place 12, no. 1 (2020): 1–24 (peer reviewed).

“Cut & Paste: Elizabeth Zvonar.” Capture Photography Festival Catalogue, Vancouver, BC, CAN (2020): 39–40.

“Inside and Outside.” Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, University of Cambridge, UK, 25 (2016): 70–81.

Selected Presentations: 

2024, University of Oregon Symposium in the History of Art and Architecture​, Eugene, OR, US

2023, University of Massachusetts Graduate History Conference, Amherst (online), MA, US

2022, Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium, New Brunswick (online), NJ, US

2021, Midwest Art History Society Conference, Houston, TX, US

2019, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place, 15th Annual Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

2019, Midwest Art History Society Conference, Cincinnati, OH, US

2018, Bodies of Resistance, Gender and Women’s Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US

Honors and Awards: 

2024, Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence & Equity, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2023 - 2027, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada

2023, Visual Studies Travel & Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2022, Visual Studies Travel & Research Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2022, Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence & Equity, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2021 - 22, Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2021, Regent's Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US

2019, Graduate Dean Professional Development Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US

2018 - 19, Graduate Student Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US

2018, Graduate Travel Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US

Education and Training: 
MA, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA (hons.), Specializing in Art History with a Minor in Philosophy, University of Toronto