Allison Springer is following a path she set for herself when she received degrees in apparel and textile design and marketing at UA ten years ago. 
After Springer received the MS in marketing in 2006, she moved to New York City to work in fashion. For the next five years, Springer worked in the creative departments at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s. Then she left New York to travel in Europe and develop her interests in art and history. She returned to her alma mater in 2015 to pursue a master’s in art history, with the goal of seeking a Ph.D. in art history in order to teach and research.
This spring, Springer successfully defended her master’s thesis in art history, titled “Mixed-Race Fantasies: Abolitionist Propaganda as Spectacles of Race in the Nineteenth Century.” Springer was accepted to PhD programs at Rice University in Houston, Tex., and the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She reports that she plans to attend Rice in the fall.
Right: Allison Springer presents her thesis research in a paper 
at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History in 2017.
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