Melissa Geisler Trafton (PhD 2003) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the College of the Holy Cross. Her interests include the history of collecting, printed ephemera and visual culture, and artist collectives. She has published on the New Hampshire landscape paintings of Samuel Gerry, the townscape lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, and prints made during World War II in her book, Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration - The Amache Silk Screen Shop (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). In addition, she is currently the Research Editor for the Catalogue Raisonné Project of the Wolf Kahn Foundation, and has been the exhibitions coordinator for the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, and the Adjunct Curator & Managing Editor for fitzhenrylaneonline.org, a digital project of the Cape Ann Museum.
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