Education
Current PhD Candidate (ABD), History of Art & Architecture, Boston University
2019 MA, Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center
2017 MA, American Fine and Decorative Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art
2011 BA, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Drama, Vassar College
Publications
“Editors’ Introduction,” SEQUITUR: Boston University Graduate Student Journal 9 no. 2 (Spring 2023). www.bu.edu/sequitur.
Presentations and Lectures
Conference Presentations
“Fighting for Prestige: Nineteenth-Century Ceremonial Fire Dress and the Performance of Respectability,” The 39th Annual Mary L. Cornille (GRS ’87) Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April 22, 2023.
“‘Out on the Waters!’: Image and Meaning in an Indian Princess Ship Figurehead,” the John A. H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture in On the Water: Salem & The North Shore, The Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium, Salem, MA, September 19, 2021.
Organized
Series Co-Coordinator. The 2022-23 History of Art & Architecture Guest Lecture Series, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Lectures
“Material Culture,” AH 210: Learning to See, November 16, 2022, Boston University, Boston, MA.
“Modes of Seeing,” AH 210: Learning to See, October 28, 2022, Boston University, Boston, MA.
“Charles Willson Peale: American Renaissance Man,” AH 379: American Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, February 14, 2022, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Dissertation Research Grant, The Decorative Arts Trust, Summer 2023
The Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize and the Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Work in the Humanities, Boston University Center for the Humanities, Boston University, Spring 2023
Professional Development Fellow, Core Capacities Program, Boston University, Summer 2021
Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University, 2020-25
Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum Scholarship, Spring 2019
Cowles Charitable Trust Fellowship, Bard Graduate Center, 2018-19
Sewell C. Biggs Winterthur Furniture Forum Scholarship, Winterthur Museum, Spring 2018
Cowles Fellowship in the Decorative Arts, Bard Graduate Center, 2017-18
Merit Scholarship, Bard Graduate Center, 2017-19
Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium Scholarship, The Decorative Arts Trust, Fall 2017
Valedictorian and Honors, American Fine and Decorative Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Spring 2017
Merit Scholarship, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Fall 2015
The Reno Prize in Greek, Vassar College, May 2011
Molly Thacher Kazan Memorial Prize in Drama, Vassar College, May 2011
Field School Summer Study Scholarship, Kenchreai Excavations, Summer 2009
Experience
Instructor of Record, AH 210: Learning to See, Boston University, Summer I 2023
Teaching Fellow, AH 112: Introduction to Art in Europe and the United States from the Renaissance to Post-Modernism, Boston University, Spring 2023
Teaching Fellow, AH 210: Learning to See, Boston University, Fall 2022
Teaching Fellow, AH 379: American Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Boston University, Spring 2022
Teaching Fellow, AH 111: Pyramids to Cathedrals: an Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Art, Boston University, Fall 2021
Research and Cataloging Intern, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Spring 2019
Curatorial Research Intern, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Summer 2018
Paul Hollister Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY), 2017-19
Research Assistant to Elizabeth Simpson, PhD, Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY), 2017-19
Curatorial Research Intern, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Summer 2017
Consultant, Interiors Division, 1stdibs.com (New York, NY), 2016-17
Staff Coordinator, Winter Antiques Show (New York, NY), 2016-17
Archival Intern, David Webb Archive (New York, NY), Fall 2016
Intern, American Decorative Arts, American Paintings and Sculpture and Modern, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY), Summer 2016
Assistant Fair Coordinator, Winter Antiques Show (New York, NY), 2015-16
Ancient Greek Language Intern, Department of Greek and Roman Studies. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), 2010-11
Research Assistant to Barbara Olsen, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), 2008-11
Dig Assistant and Junior Researcher, Halmyris Excavations (Murighiol, Romania), Summer 2010
Dig Assistant, Kenchreai Excavations (Corinth, Greece), Summer 2009
Service
Student Coordinator, History of Art & Architecture Preservation Studies Faculty Search Committee, Boston University, Fall 2023
Senior Editor, Sequitur History of Art & Architecture Graduate Student Journal, Boston University, 2022-23
Co-President, History of Art & Architecture Graduate Student Organization, Boston University, 2021-23
Junior Editor, Sequitur, History of Art & Architecture Graduate Student Journal, Boston University, 2021-22
Graduate Student Organization Representative, History of Art & Architecture Graduate Student Organization, Boston University, 2020-21
Student Representative, MA Program, Bard Graduate Center, 2017-19
Student Ambassador, MA Program, American Fine and Decorative Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2015-17