Piper Cruze Prolago (2024) studies modern art in the Philippines in the early 20th century. Her research engages the Philippines in transnational contexts, examining its role in global networks of exchange and migration. She is particularly interested in the role that visual art plays in negotiating the formation of Philippine national identity across multiethnic communities.
After earning undergraduate degrees in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Tulsa, Piper completed her MA in Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has previously worked at the Greenwood Art Project (a public art initiative commemorating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre), with Indigenous activists in Oklahoma City to recontextualize the city's Land Run memorial, and recently co-curated an exhibit about Muralism in Wichita, Kansas at the Ulrich Museum of Art.