Hannah Pivo

Hannah Pivo is a Ph.D. student specializing in 19th- and 20th-century design and architecture, 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. Hannah’s research has been supported by 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 Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, where she was the Summer Research Fellow for 2021. Her work has appeared in the journals Design Issues and Public Art Dialogue and she has contributed to exhibition catalogs on various topics in modern and contemporary art and design, most recently Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980 (published in 2020 by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the Milwaukee Art Museum). Before entering the doctoral program in 2019, Hannah was Curatorial Assistant for 20th- and 21st-Century Design at the Milwaukee Art Museum.