Maria Kuran

Maria Kuran is a doctoral student studying modern and contemporary Arab art under Dr. Álvaro Luís Lima. Having grown up in Lebanon, she is most interested in the intersections of art with politics, nationalism, and identity, as told through Lebanese and Palestinian narratives during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). She also happens to be a double Gator, first earning her B.A. in Art History from the University of Florida in 2020. Maria then received her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2022, with an emphasis in Curatorial Studies; her thesis utilized the Mona Hatoum retrospective exhibition from 2015-2016 at Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou as a case study exploring the politics of globalization in the confines of the Euro-American museum framework.