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Art historian specialized in eighteenth through twentieth-century European and American visual culture, gender politics of art, cross-cultural contacts, historical conciousness, and the history of collecting.
2020
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Dissertation: Une Histoire Particulière: The Troubadour Style and Gendered Historical in Early Nineteenth-Century France
2008
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis: Seeing Through the Veil: The (In)visibility of the Imperial Flâneuse
2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art | November 2022–Present
Eugene V. Thaw Fellow for Collections Cataloging | September 2020–August 2022
Curatorial Liaison, askBKM | January 2015–January 2016
Research Associate, European Painting and Sculpture | October 2009–July 2012
Assistant, Interpretive Exhibitions and Family Programs | September 2008–October 2009
Lecturer | May 2019–March 2020
Summer Intern, Library Image Collections | June–August 2013
Cataloguer | January–May 2013
Museum Education Intern | June–August 2008
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. Celtic Art Across the Ages, exh. cat. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Art Museums, 2016 (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
2023
Session: Fashion, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth Century, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture Annual Conference, October 14
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
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