Overview
Sophia Maldonado is a third-year Ph.D. student in Art History and Visual Studies. Working with Professor Paul Jaskot, her research examines the visual culture of euthanasia and eugenics in National Socialist Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. She served as the department's Graduate Student Association co-chair for the 2023-2024 academic year. As of Fall 2023, she is the project manager for Project Vox.
In 2022, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Classics and Art History and a minor in Museum Studies from the University of Mary Washington. Her honors thesis in Art History examined the representations of atypical physiognomy in the self-portraits of Viennese artist Egon Schiele. For her honors thesis in Classics, she wrote about the relationship between the weaponization of the Greco-Roman tradition in Arno Breker's sculptures and the practice of eugenics in Nazi Germany.
In 2022, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Classics and Art History and a minor in Museum Studies from the University of Mary Washington. Her honors thesis in Art History examined the representations of atypical physiognomy in the self-portraits of Viennese artist Egon Schiele. For her honors thesis in Classics, she wrote about the relationship between the weaponization of the Greco-Roman tradition in Arno Breker's sculptures and the practice of eugenics in Nazi Germany.