EDUCATION
(2017) Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture, Ph.D. Candidate
2010 Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), M.Arch
2004 Yale University, B.A. cum laude
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016-2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
2015-2016 Barra Dissertation Fellowship in Art and Material Culture, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2015-2016 Dissertation Research Grant, Warren Center for American Studies, Harvard University (declined)
2015 Citation of Special Recognition, Carter Manny Award, Graham Foundation
2015 “Drawn to Art” Short Term Visiting Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
2014-2015 Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies
2014-2015 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Museum of American Art (declined)
2014 Graduate Society Merit Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (declined)
2013-2014 Kingsbury Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
2004 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Connecticut
2004 Mellon Undergraduate Research Award, Yale University
2003 David W. Baer Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Yale University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2015 Co-instructor, Art 211: “Art in the Western Tradition, 1400 to the Present,” Prison University Project, San Quentin State Prison
Summer 2014 Co-instructor, English 204: “Reading, Writing and Research,” Prison University Project, San Quentin State Prison
Spring 2013 Head Teaching Fellow, “Modern Art and Modernity,”for Professors Benjamin Buchloh, Maria Gough, and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
Fall 2012 Head Teaching Fellow, “American Art and Modernity, 1865-1965,” for Professor Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University
2008-10 Teaching Assistant, “Analysis and Design of Building Structures I & II,” for Professor Martin Bechthold and Lecturer Patrick McCafferty, Harvard GSD
DESIGN EXPERIENCE
2008 Design Intern, Asian Community Development Corporation, Boston, MA
2007 Junior Architect, MGA Partners, Philadelphia, PA
2004-06 Designer, Steven Harris Architects, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
“Creative Combustion: Image, Imagination and the Work of Robert Fulton,” in “Art and Invention in the United States,” ed. Ellery Foutch and Hélène Valance, special issue, Panorama 2, no. 1 (Summer 2016).
Exhibition Review: “Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present,” The Journal of Modern Craft 8, no. 2, 251-258
Fall 2014 Co-curator, “More Than Mere Practicality: Modernizing Harvard at Mid-Century,” Harvard GSD
CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
June 2016 “The Line Made Flesh: Saint-Mémin’s Native American Physiognomies, 1804-1807,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Worcester, MA
April 2016 “Into the Fire: The Making of American Intellectual Property before 1836,” Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, Winterthur Museum, Library & Gardens, Wilmington, DE
February 2016 “Creative Combustion: Image, Imagination, and the Work of Robert Fulton,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
August 2015 “Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic,” Fellows’ Talk, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
March 2015 “Between Looking and Making: The Early Drawing Curriculum at West Point,” American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
ACADEMIC SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2015 to the present Yale Alumni Schools Committee, Alumni Interviewer
2014 Maneuvers Seminar: “Technologies of Turning,” Department of History of Art and Architecture and Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University
2013 Maneuvers Seminar: “Technologies of Reversal,” Department of History of Art and Architecture and Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University
2010-2011 Student Lecture Series Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
2010 Faculty/Student Liaison, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
2009 Summer Institute, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and University of Virginia
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