Stephanie Gibson is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies architecture and how it shapes the national identities and collective memory. Her dissertation looks at monuments of the Black Atlantic to examine the varied ways architects and other designers have responded to the large and important challenges of representing and repairing the trauma and loss suffered by these communities. She presented her work at conferences including the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures at the University of Toronto. This Spring, her paper “The Same but not Quite: An Exploration of the Mythology and Mimicry of the Bermudian Gombey Costume” was published in the University of Toronto art journal, Contrapposto.