Kate Heller

Kate Heller is a third-year doctoral student in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art at MIT. She is developing a dissertation that explores the intersections of design, natural history, and the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Sweden. She is broadly interested in decorative arts and design of the long eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Prior to MIT, Kate was a Research Associate of Applied Arts of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago (2019-2023) where she assisted with the acquisition, exhibition, display, research and interpretation of European ceramics, glass, metalwork, and furniture.