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Maggie Hire is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, where she specializes in modern and contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe. Her dissertation, Creating Common Meaning: VALIE EXPORT, Ulrike Rosenbach, Natalia LL, and Feminism in Central Europe, provides a new account of collaboration among artists engaged in what they, as historical actors in Central Europe in the 1970s, called feminist projects. With an attention to contemporaneous developments within Central European sociology, communication studies, and political theory, this dissertation focuses on the concurrent and overlapping work of EXPORT, Rosenbach, and LL, planning exhibitions, organizing workshops, teaching, and traveling internationally to interact with one another and with other artists, gallerists, writers, and critics. Although some of these activities are not normally seen as artistic, this dissertation argues they were essential to developing the theoretical framework, political stakes, and aesthetics of a feminist art defined by conditions of transnationality, intersubjectivity, and mobility.

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. Prior to her graduate studies, she taught English for a year in Berlin through Fulbright Germany. Her research has been supported by The Robert V. Storr Research and Travel Fund, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. Beyond her academic work, 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.