Louis. DeRoo was honored with the 2008 Wylie Prizein French Cultural Studies for her book, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968 (Cambridge Press, 2006), which provides an in-depth account of protests that shook France and served as a catalyst for a radical reconsideration of artistic practice. DeRoo has also received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the Javits Foundation, as well as an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has contributed to parallax and The Oxford Art Journal and curated the exhibition Beyond the Photographic Frame at the Art Institute of Chicago (1999). She received a BA in Art History from Bryn Mawr College and an MA and PhD in Art History and Archeology from the University of Chicago. Julian Myers