As a child, Matthew O’Connell wandered the aisles of the grocery store with his eyes glued to a book. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he pored over his reading at the library and walked the streets of Hyde Park with friends, talking and joking about everything from social justice to strange hairstyles.
O’Connell, whose warm personality and expansive intellect made him a valued member of the Department of Art History, died this summer in New York City. He was 26...![]()
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