Hannah Pivo

Hannah Pivo is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in 19th- and 20th-century design history, with a focus on the history of graphic design and information visualization. She holds a B.A. from Pomona College and an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art History with a specialization in Design History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Design History, Design Issues, and Public Art Dialogue, as well as exhibition catalogs on various topics in modern and contemporary art and design. She is currently completing a dissertation, supervised by Professor Zeynep Çelik Alexander, on ‘graphic methods’ of data analysis and presentation that were used by statisticians, corporate executives, social scientists, and government planners, among others, to anticipate and shape the future in the early twentieth-century United States. Her research has been supported by the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at the Duke University Libraries.