Bio

Maura is a New York–based art historian, educator, and researcher specializing in modern art, the history of photography, and visual culture in North Africa. With over five years of experience across higher education, museum education, and public humanities initiatives, her work spans the classroom, the archive, and the art exhibition spaces. She has curated and supported exhibitions and film screenings that foreground transnational solidarity, feminist archives, and the politics of visual representation.

    Acknowledged by multiple institutions for her educational expertise, Maura is committed to inclusive and interdisciplinary pedagogy. She has taught a range of art history courses, integrating writing-intensive assignments, digital publishing platforms, and Open Education Resources (OER) materials to support student-centered learning. Her digital humanities projects include collaborative, open-access anthologies that reframe canonical narratives and make underrepresented histories more accessible. 

   Maura’s research examines how images, particularly photographic archives, shape our understanding of gendered, racialized, and anti-colonial resistance movements. Her dissertation Gender and its Archival Negotiations: Photography and the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), draws on photojournalism, vernacular photography, and material culture to explore women’s visual and political labor during the war. Through her scholarship, creative pedagogy, and public programming, Maura seeks to demonstrate how art and archives can serve as tools of historical redress and collective memory.