Scholarship

My research explores how contemporary artists engage with landscape to address histories of extraction, violence, and environmental catastrophe. I recently completed my PhD in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where my dissertation, “What the Earth Remembers: Landscape and Materiality in the Work of Sally Mann, Mark Bradford, and Tacita Dean,” examined the intersections of land, materiality, and conjoined human and ecological trauma. Overall, my scholarship is grounded in close attention to works of art, drawing on history, ecology, post-human studies, and the environmental humanities.

Publications

  • A Hawaiian Feather Cloak in the Age of Extinction

    This essay appears in Breaking the Silence: Methods of Writing Art History, edited by Caroline Fowler, Clark Art Institute, 2026

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  • What the Earth Remembers: History and Materiality in the works of Sally Mann, Mark Bradford, and Tacita Dean

    My dissertation, advised by Lisa Saltzman, for Bryn Mawr College, was completed in 2025.

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  • Anna Atkins and the Cyanotype Process

    Published on Smarthistory.org

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  • Visible Differently: Roni Horn’s Vatnasafn/Library of Water as Memorial

    Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World, edited by Laura A. Macaluso, 2019

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  • Windows Onto Things: The Phenomenology of Glass in Josef Sudek’s Still Lifes

    History of Photography, volume 42, issue 2 (2018)

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Presentations

  • Sally Mann and the Soils of the South

    Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures, 2022

  • Sun. Salt. Spiral. Tacita Dean’s "JG"

    Barnes Foundation’s Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art, 2022

  • The Subversive Sublime in Roni Horn’s Works with Water

    College Art Association Annual Conference, 2021

  • Textile Collapse: Depth and Digitality in Gerhard Richter’s Jacquard Tapestries

    Part of Rendering, Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Graduate Symposium, 2018

  • Elsewhere Places in Robert Smithson’s Photography

    Williams College Graduate Symposium, 2015