Karintha Lowe, PhD, serves as the Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the Hudson River Museum and is responsible for organizing a number of exhibitions including in the Community & Partnership Gallery of the Museum’s new West Wing. Lowe also plans and executes programming in support of the exhibitions with the goal of engaging the local community with the Museum.
At the College, Lowe will teach one course each fall semester; in the spring and summer, she will support other Sarah Lawrence faculty and students as they engage in community-based work at the Museum and/or as Museum interns.
An interdisciplinary scholar and curator, Lowe has also worked at the New York Historical Society and the Museum of Chinese in America, where she developed public programming and exhibitions on Asian American multimedia art. She holds a BA, Macalester College; MA, Harvard University; and PhD, Harvard University.
Course Work
Documenting Asian/America introduces students to the major themes and methods of Asian American cultural studies. Each class revisits a key “site” of Asian American history—the sugarcane plantation, the shoreline, the railroad, the internment camp, and the protest—and explore how Asians in America have differently documented themselves in relation to those spaces through art and literature.
Public Humanities in Practice: The Hudson River Museum is a small seminar that provides students with the opportunity to engage in community-based work at the Hudson River Museum. Much of the course work will be held on-site at the Museum, where students work together on a series of curatorial and public programming projects related to the Community and Partnerships Gallery.