Madi Shenk is a Master’s candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, focusing on modern and contemporary art history. Shenk’s research interests include Marxist and queer perspectives of post-war art, thing-theory and materiality, as well as female collage artists of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. She earned her undergraduate degree in Humanities with focuses in philosophy and art history at Washington College in May of 2019, receiving the Art History Award and the Norman James Humanities Award for Excellence. She has held positions at the Kohl Gallery in Chestertown, Maryland, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., as well as the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.