Christine Bootes

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art; history and theory of photography, film and media.

Christine Bootes is a PhD candidate at the Institute, where she is preparing a dissertation on the relationship between documentary media and liberal internationalism during the European interwar period. Currently a Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Fellow, she was previously an invited doctoral researcher at Panthéon Sorbonne Université (2023-24) as well as a participant in both the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (2022-23) and the Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Study Sessions at the Museum of Modern Art (2021-22). She received her MA in Art History, summa cum laude, from Panthéon Sorbonne Université.