Bio

Melissa Geisler Trafton is an art historian of modern and contemporary art. Her interests include the history of collecting, twentieth-century prints, nineteenth-century printed ephemera and visual culture, and artist collectives. She has held curatorial positions in many museums, and served as a consulting researcher for several digital projects, including the complete catalog of artworks by artist Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) and a website dedicated to the screenprints produced by incarcerated Japanese Americans at Amache (1943-1945).