Scholarship

I am interested in thinking about the ways contemporary art can change the way histories of America—particularly those of land and the environment—are understood and narrated. My writing and research takes an interdisciplinary approach to material culture, and centers questions of materiality, ecology, and memory. My writing appears in History of Photography, Smarthistory, and in recent anthologies including: Breaking the Silence: Methods of Writing Art History and Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World.

“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.

“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 

“Sally Mann and the Soils of the South”

I presented this talk, an early version of my dissertation chapter, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures

“Anna Atkins and the Cyanotype Process"

This peer-reviewed article is published  in Smarthistory, March 17, 2021

  • Presented at Rendering, Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 2018 Graduate Symposium.

  • Published in History of Photography, Taylor & Francis Group. (Peer Reviewed).

  • Williams College Graduate Symposium

“Sun. Salt. Spiral. Tacita Dean’s JG ”

I delivered this talk at the Barnes Foundation’s Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art

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

This peer-reviewed article appears in Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World, edited by Laura A. Macaluso, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.