From the Smithsonian Museums
Michaela Rife is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she teaches courses in American art and environmental art history. She is currently at work on her first book project, Dust Bowl Murals: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Crisis, and Public Art on the New Deal Plains.
The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources workshop