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Marissa Baker
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Marissa Baker received a PhD in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include Black art and social movements; public, community-based, and socially engaged art; and global modernism. Her dissertation, “The Nation Within: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago,” received support from the UIC Dean's Scholar Fellowship, the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, the UIC Graduate Student Fellowship in the Special Collections and University Archives Department, and the UIC Provost Award for Graduate Research. She is co-editor of the 2018 exhibition catalogue The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980 with Rebecca Zorach.