Alexandra Dennett

Alexandra Dennett is a PhD candidate at Harvard University specializing in modern art and the history of photography. Her dissertation explores photography and the politics of representation in Uzbekistan, from Russian colonization through the Soviet period. Foregrounding agency on both sides of the camera, the project reconstructs how photographs participated in political life and shaped ideas about Central Asian identity in the twentieth century. 

Alexandra is currently a Leonard A. Lauder Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research has also been supported by the American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Program, the Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. After receiving her BA in the History of Art from Yale, where she was introduced to museum work through positions at the Yale University Art Gallery, she then studied at the European University at Saint Petersburg, in Russia. Before beginning her PhD studies, she worked as an archivist and researcher at The Irving Penn Foundation in New York, contributing to the touring “Irving Penn: Centennial” exhibition and other projects. 

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Announcing the 2025 Cohort of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2025 cohort of the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Now in its eleventh year, the Seminar will provide twelve outstanding students from around the world with the opportunity to engage in the critical responsibilities of museums today.  The ... Read More >