Courtney Carter

Courtney Carter is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History and a recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. She studies late nineteenth and twentieth century art and visual culture, primarily in the United States. Her research interests include photographic manipulation, inter-medial experimentation, gendered labor, and the performativity of process. She is the 2024-25 Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography and was a 2022-23 Graduate Fellow in the NEH-funded Humanities Initiative “Images out of Time: Visual and Material Culture in a Digital Age.” Prior to joining USC, she completed fellowships at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the Arts and Humanities Center at Haverford College, where she curated and contributed to several exhibitions. She has held internships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and is an alumnus of the Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive. Courtney received her B.A. in English Literature from Haverford College.