Education:
M.A. Candidate in European Studies; University of Virginia (2026)
B.A. Art History and German Studies; University of Virginia (2024)
 

Connor is a first-year Master’s student in the European Studies program at U.Va. He received his Bachelor’s from U.Va. in Art History and German Studies in 2024, where he developed an interest in the politics of memory surrounding post-WWII German artists, poets, and philosophers. Planning a semester of study and research abroad in Berlin in the Fall of 2025, Connor’s M.A. thesis seeks to engage the relationships of matter, materiality, language, and memory in the visual art of Anselm Kiefer (1945–) inscribed with the poetry of Romanian-Jewish German-language poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan (1920–1970).