Rachel Vorsanger is pursuing her PhD in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Her research examines the role of gender and displacement in modern art from the United States and Europe from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Her current projects examine Madrid, Barcelona, New York City, and Mexico City as sites of international art making.

Rachel’s professional experience includes object-based and archival research at the Barnes Foundation and the Betty Parsons Foundation. Her publications include Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of Joaquín Sorolla (Arts Special Issue: Affective Art, 2024) and Edith Dimock’s The Sunday Walk (Research Notes at the Barnes, Summer 2025). She also compiled and edited the Betty Parsons Catalogue Raisonné which was published online in July 2022. At Temple, Rachel co-curated The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University’s Charles Library and contributed several essays to its catalogue. Her research aims to preserve, contextualize, and promote the legacies of historically marginalized artists.

Photo Credit: Rachel Vorsanger