Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: Embodying the Sacred: Marina Abramović, Transcultural Aesthetics and the Global Geography of Art
Chanda Laine Carey is the Andrew W. Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities. Her research and focuses on the transcultural aesthetics of Contemporary art in global context, with an emphasis on artists whose practices reflect the diversity of transnational cultural geographies. She holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego, and MA in Theory and Criticism from Art Center College of Design, and a BA an Art History and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego. Chanda is a member of the Yale Bouchet Honor Society, and her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the Max and Iris Stern International Symposia, and the Société Européene pour l’Astronomie dans la Culture.