Art Historian & Curator
Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art at Harvard Art Museums. Specializing in eighteenth through twentieth-century European and American visual culture, gender politics of art, cross-cultural contacts, history of collecting, and historiography.
2020
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Dissertation: Une Histoire Particulière: The Troubadour Style and Gendered Historical in Early Nineteenth-Century France
Advisers: Meredith Martin, Thomas Crow
2008
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis: Seeing Through the Veil: The (In)visibility of the Imperial Flâneuse
Advisers: Jill Casid, Nancy Rose Marshall
2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art | November 2022–Present
Co-curated an exhibition celebrating the bequest of the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection; edited and wrote for the exhibition catalogue; produced and contributed to the audio tour; led donor events previewing the exhibition; organized a student program with Boston-area artists in the exhibition; currently organizing and will moderate the opening roundtable.
Curated two temporary installations of works on paper from the permanent collection; conducted original research related to the acquisition, study, curatorial care, and display of the museums' collection of 18th and 19th-century European art.
Eugene V. Thaw Fellow for Collections Cataloging | September 2020–August 2022
Researched the provenance, exhibition history, bibliographic references, and critical history of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century artworks in the department of European Paintings for publication in the museum's online collection catalogue.
Curatorial Liaison, Exhibitions Department | January 2015–January 2016
Served as an intermediary between technologists, educators, and curators across departments during the development and rollout of the mobile app ASK Brooklyn Museum, funded by Bloomberg Connects; designed, authored, and edited object-based articles for an internal wiki used by educators to quickly and accurately answer visitor questions through the app; facilitated curatorial review of wiki content and app conversations.
Research Associate, European Painting and Sculpture | October 2009–July 2012
Supported curators of nineteenth-century and modern art with object-based and provenance research on prospective acquisitions, the permanent collection, and special exhibitions; wrote acquisition justifications, gallery labels, and website content; delivered lectures to various museum audiences.
Assistant, Interpretive Exhibitions and Family Programs | September 2008–October 2009
Administered program scheduling, registration, communications, and reporting; contributed to interpretive exhibition development. Supported other divisions of the education department through regular gallery teaching.
Lecturer | May 2019–March 2020
Led two-hour custom tours of New York City museums for small private groups.
Summer Intern, Library Image Collections | June–August 2013
Researched and cataloged 50 reproductive prints from the René Huyghe Archive for web publication.
Cataloguer | January–May 2013
Cataloged prints by Henri Matisse for a condition survey of the collection.
Museum Education Intern | June–August 2008
Participated in an intensive program of museum education theory and practice. Conducted daily tours for adult, student, family, and senior audiences.
May 24–August 17, 2025
Harvard Art Museums
Co-curator
April 7–August 4, 2025
Harvard Art Museums
Curator (Gallery Rotation)
June 28–October 21, 2024
Harvard Art Museums
Curator (Gallery Rotation)
November 23, 2014–January 25, 2015
Art Institute of Chicago
Researcher
June 26–September 22, 2013
Art Institute of Chicago
Researcher
February 26–May 30, 2011
Art Institute of Chicago
Co-curator (Gallery Rotation)
Teaching Assistant for History of Western Art II
January 2018–May 2019
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Art History II
January–May 2014
Teaching Assistant for Renaissance to Modern Art
September 2006–May 2008
2026
In Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed. The Many Faces of Celtic Art from Antiquity to the Present, exh. cat. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Art Museums (forthcoming)
2025
With A. Cassandra Albinson, eds. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Art Museums, 2025.
2023
With Alison Hokanson. In Susan A. Stein, Van Gogh's Cypresses, exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
2022
In Small Things in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin and Chloe Wigston-Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
2017
In Le Temps des collections VI. Rouen: Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie, 2017.
2016
Object of the Day. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, April 24, 2016.
2013
With Stephanie D'Alessandro and Allison Perelman. The Art Institute of Chicago, February 2013.
2025
Session: Women Artists and the Politics of Neoclassicism, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 12
2024
Harvard Art Museums Curatorial Research Colloquium, November 18
2024
Women in French History Conference, Boston University, March 22
2023
Session: Fashion, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth Century, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture Annual Conference, October 14
2023
Material Culture Forum, Harvard University, September 8
2022
Metropolitan Museum of Art Spring Fellows Colloquia, May 23
2022
Session: Clothing and Empire: Dress and Power in the Long 18th Century, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, April 1
2021
Session: Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print, Virtual Encounters in Book History Series, University of Michigan Library, October 14
2021
New York University Institute of Fine Arts Symposium, May 7
2020
Women in the Arts Conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30
2019
Session: Material Culture of the Napoleonic Era, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, March 22
2018
Session: The Politics of Visual Representation, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 21
2017
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Virginia, November 3
2016
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century Conference, University of York, July 8
2015
Urban History Association Conference, Columbia University, October 25
The Essentials of Editing
March 2025
Drawing Institute Graduate Seminars: Master Drawings Writing Workshop, Watercolor, The Renaissance in France
2018–2020
Teaching Institute in Museum Education
August 2009