Sara Kowalski is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University, where her research engages intersections among art, medicine, and the body. She holds a Master of Arts in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta (2010), as well as a Bachelor of Humanities (Highest Honours) in Humanities and Art History from Carleton University (2007).

Her dissertation project, “Re-fabricating the Body: Contemporary Intersections between Art and Medicine,” focuses on the intersection of the medical sciences and artistic practices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, examining the role of contemporary art practice as an important site for intervention into medical representation and as a crucial means through which to re-imagine the body in post-modern, contemporary culture.

Sara is a 2010 recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a 2013-2014 Wolfe Fellow, and a 2010-2011 Archie Malloch Graduate Fellow in Public Learning.