I am a historian of European modernist and avant-garde art in a global context and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Iowa.
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.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorische Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. I received a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, 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 max-boersma [at] uiowa [dot] edu.
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.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorische Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. I received a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, 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 max-boersma [at] uiowa [dot] edu.