MA; American Art
Caroline Strolic was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and graduated from Notre Dame Preparatory High School in 2017. An alumna of the University of Maine, she graduated with a B.A. in Art History and a minor in History. She is a member of the academic organizations Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and was Co-President of the Sophomore Eagles Honors Society. Caroline was a member of the Division 1 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving team from 2017-2021 and was captain of said team for two years. She was the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Graduating Student Award from the Department of Art, and the 2021 Outstanding Graduating Student Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
MA Paper:
“Absent Fathers and Absent Men: Eastman Johnson’s Writing to Father (1863) and the Effects of the Civil War on the Northern Family”
Research Interests:
- Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century American Painting
- National Era and Antebellum American painting
- American Colonial painting
2022-2023:
co-President, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
2021-2022:
co-President, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association