Pratt Institute

Education

PhD Candidate, History of the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center
M.A., Bard Graduate Center
B.A., Art History, Kent State University

Biography

Elizabeth St. George is a design historian specializing in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture and design. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture in New York, where she also received her M.A.. She has been an invited speaker at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and has served as a research assistant for the Bard Graduate Center’s exhibitions on Knoll textiles (2011), Artek and Alvar Aalto (forthcoming), and the architect and designer William Kent (forthcoming). While Ms. St. George is completing a dissertation exploring interwar architecture and design and themes of modern living in the former Czechoslovakia, she is broadly interested in how design is used to construct modes of cultural interaction and identity, and how modernism and notions of modernity were used to disseminate social, political, and cultural reform in both America and Europe.