Anna Flinchbaugh

Anna Flinchbaugh is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and a participant in the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California. She works primarily on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century decorative arts and textiles, with an emphasis on the intersections of gender, labor, and materiality. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “A Tangled Web: Arts & Crafts Embroidery and Empire,” argues for greater recognition of the role of tacit knowledge in turn of the century embroidery. Her research has been supported by the William Morris Society in the United States’ Dunlap Memorial Fellowship. She received a BA in Human Ecology from Middlebury College and a dual masters degree in library science and art history from Pratt Institute. She is an active member of USC’s Environmental Humanities Working Group and of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Historic Interiors Group.

• BA Middlebury College, 5/2014
• MA Pratt Institute
• OM Pratt Institute