Hannah Higgins

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Hannah Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of the Fluxus artists, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles. She is the author of one of the most important histories of the Fluxus movement, Fluxus Experience, published in 2002 by the University of California Press.

Higgins is the associate dean for facilities for the College of Architecture and the Arts, and an associate professor in the department of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her B.A. in 1988 from Oberlin College, her M.A. from University of Chicago in 1990, and graduated with her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Chicago. Her twin sister, Jessica Higgins, a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung, late Fluxus gallerist Emily Harvey and The Artists Museum's Construction In Process, performed and collaborated as a youth in original Fluxus related events.