Profile
Maggie Hire is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on 20th-century art of Germany and Poland.
Maggie received a B.A. in the history of art and architecture and German studies from Brown University and an M.A. in the humanities program at the University of Chicago. She has held positions at various museums and institutions, including, most recently, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she worked as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints.
Selected Publications
“Dead Letters and Fluxus East,” in Hanna B. Hölling, Aga Wielocha, Josephine Ellis, eds., Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation (Forthcoming, 2026).
“Katarzyna Kobro: Spatial Composition 5,” in Christine Mehring and Orianna Cacchione, eds., Monochrome Multitudes: Art of One Color from Allais to Zeisler (Forthcoming, 2024-2025).
“Käthe Kollwitz’s Working-Class Women.” MoMA Magazine, March 24, 2024.
Author of all object-focused essays (approx. 9,500 words) and co-author of chronology in Starr Figura, ed., Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2024).