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  • Molly Davy

    Associate Director, Operations

    Email
    molly.davy@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Molly Davy

    Profile

    Molly Davy is a writer, researcher, curator, and educator based in New York City. Since 2020, they have taught courses in Visual Culture and Design Research methodologies in the School of Design Strategies (SDS) and the School of Art, Design History and Theory (ADHT) at Parsons. 

    They currently serve as Associate Director of Operations in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons. From 2018–2022, they were the Program Administrator for the History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA, a collaborative program between the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Parsons.

    Their creative and scholarly work explores the intersections of memory, place, and preservation, with a focus on how stories—both personal and collective—are embedded in landscapes and objects. This includes work with the historic Camera Obscura in Greenport, New York. Through writing, research, and curation, their practice emphasizes care, discovery, and public engagement.

     

    Degrees Held

    B.A. St. Catherine University
    M.A. New York University 

    Research Interests

    mail art and the USPS, printed matter and the politics of the archive, media-based epistolaries, the videography of Nelson Sullivan, visual science and the camera obscura, etymologies and language evolution, eBay as a site for image research, and the afterlives of retired objects in material culture.

    Awards And Honors

    2025 Spark Award

    Past Courses

    ARS: Constructed Environments
    PLSD 3500, Fall 2024

    ARS: Visual Culture
    PLVS 3500, Spring 2025

    Creative Team Dynamics
    PSDS 2115, Fall 2024

    Design Research 2: Integration
    PSDS 3100, Spring 2025

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