Kale Serrato Doyen (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research engages with Black and Latinx artists in the United States through art, architecture, digital humanities, and institutional frameworks. Her dissertation, “Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh’s Black Built Environment,” digitally and communally maps the archive of Charles “Teenie” Harris, a prolific twentieth-century photographer and Black press photojournalist. By digitally mapping Harris’s architectural photography in conversation with local community members, her dissertation analyzes Harris’s artistic documentation of structural racism in Pittsburgh’s modern urban development.
As a member of HAA, Kale has served as Vice President and President of the Graduate Student Organization, Symposium Chair for “Ruin and Reparation: (Dis)Repair in Art and Architectural History,” and a mentor to incoming Hot Metal Bridge Post-Baccalaureate fellows.
- Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, in progress
- CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, Center for Curatorial Leadership, Summer 2026
- M.A., History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2023
- Hot Metal Bridge Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2020-21
- B.A., Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020
Education & Training
- Ellen Holtzman Fellow, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, American Council of Learned Societies, 2026-27
- Humanities Center Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2026
- Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2025-26
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2024-25
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2023
- Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, 2018-20
- America Needs You-Illinois Fellowship, 2017-19
