Bio

Maura is a New York–based art historian, educator, and researcher specializing in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a regional focus on North Africa. With over five years of experience across higher education, museum education, and public humanities initiatives, her work bridges the classroom, the archive, and exhibition spaces. She has curated and supported exhibitions and film programs that foreground transnational solidarities, feminist knowledge production, and the politics of representation.

    Her dissertation, A Photographic Gendered History of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), investigates women’s visual and political labor during the war through a cross-archival and interdisciplinary lens that includes media, material culture, and vernacular image practices. Across her scholarship, teaching, and public programming, Maura explores how art and archives can function as tools of historical redress and collective remembrance.