Overview
Shane Morrissy is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. His research explores the relationship between art and printed mass media within the broader political context of Progressive era America. Shane holds an undergraduate degree in Art History from University College Dublin and an MPhil in Textual and Visual Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Prior to arriving at Duke, he worked as a researcher in the Education Department of the National Gallery of Ireland. Shane has presented his dissertation research at the annual conference of the Design History Society, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Parsons School of Design. His academic writing has appeared in the Information Design Journal and his public scholarship has been published in The Ephemera Journal. His research has been supported by institutions including Harvard University, Princeton University, the Nasher Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library. In 2024, he was awarded a History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Shane is also Project Manager of Digital Public Buildings North Carolina at the Duke’s Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab (DAHVCRL). His advisor is Dr. Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.