I am a historian of European modernist and avant-garde art in a global context.
Starting this fall, I will be Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Iowa. At present, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorische Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, where I teach seminars on modern and contemporary art in Europe and the Americas.
My current research focuses on interdisciplinary, transnational, and transcultural histories of abstract art, as well as intersections of art with histories of craft, science, technology, and design. My first book, provisionally titled Technical Implications: The Making of Interwar Abstraction in Russia and Germany, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
I received my PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in 2023. Prior to this, I earned an MA in Art History from Williams College and a BA from the University of Colorado Boulder.
My pronouns are he/him. You can reach me at m.boersma [at] fu-berlin [dot] de.
Starting this fall, I will be Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Iowa. At present, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorische Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, where I teach seminars on modern and contemporary art in Europe and the Americas.
My current research focuses on interdisciplinary, transnational, and transcultural histories of abstract art, as well as intersections of art with histories of craft, science, technology, and design. My first book, provisionally titled Technical Implications: The Making of Interwar Abstraction in Russia and Germany, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
I received my PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in 2023. Prior to this, I earned an MA in Art History from Williams College and a BA from the University of Colorado Boulder.
My pronouns are he/him. You can reach me at m.boersma [at] fu-berlin [dot] de.