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 in the United States. 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 journals Design Issues and Public Art Dialogue, and she recently published “The Dot: Statistics, Society, and Graphic Design, c. 1830–1970” in the Journal of Design History. She has contributed to exhibition catalogs on various topics in modern and contemporary art and design, including The Eames Aluminum Group (Eames Institute, 2024) and Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the Milwaukee Art Museum, 2020). She is currently completing a dissertation on the role of graphing and mapping in corporate and government planning in the U.S. during the 1910s­–30s, supervised by Professor Zeynep Çelik Alexander. Her 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 Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology.