EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2024 Rutgers University, Art History

Dissertation: “Looking Backward & Looking Forward: Process Photography in the United States, ca. 1970.” Adviser: Andrés Mario Zervigón. Committee: Susan Sidlauskas, Jane Sharp, and Geoffrey Batchen (University of Oxford)

M.A. 2013 Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Photographic Preservation and Collections Management

Thesis: “‘Highlights of a Trip to Hell’: Contextualizing the Initial Reception of Larry Clark’s Tulsa.” Adviser: Don Snyder

B.F.A. 2011 Rochester Institute of Technology, Photography & Art History

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023–2024 — 12-Month Chester Dale Fellow, The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art

2018–2024 — Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching Assistant. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Teaching Assistant: “Art & Medicine” (Fall 2019), “Cinema & the City” (Spring 2019), “Introduction to Western Art History: 1400 to the Present” (Fall 2021), “The History of Photography, 1900–2000” (Spring 2022), & “African American Art” (Fall 2022)

2013–2018 — Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2021 — Curator, Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown, George Eastman Museum

Catalog: Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown. Essays by William Green & Keith F. Davis (Rochester: George Eastman Museum)

Press: Rebecca Rafferty, “Eastman Museum looks back with a Carl Chiarenza retrospective,” City Newspaper (Rochester, NY) (June 1, 2021)

2019 — Contributor, Paper Trails: Modern Indian Works on Paper, Gaur Collection (Franklin Park, NJ) & Grinnell College Museum of Art (Grinnell, IA)

2017 — Curator, Nandita Raman: Cinema Play House, George Eastman Museum

Press: Maurice Berger, “An Elegy to India’s Vanishing Cinemas,” The New York Times Lens Blog (February 7, 2018); Maria Thomas, “In photos: The show is almost over at India’s old single-screen cinemas,” Quartz India (November 17, 2017); “Straight road to a warped world,” The Tribune (India) (June 3, 2018)

2017 — Curator, A History of Photography [Rotation #9], George Eastman Museum

2015 — Curator, A History of Photography [Rotation #3], George Eastman Museum

PUBLICATIONS

2024 — “Research Report,” Center 44 (The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art)

2021 — Catalog essay, “Recycling Silver: The Material Transformations of Carl Chiarenza,” in Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown (Rochester: George Eastman Museum)

2018 — Contributor, Triennial Highlights: August 2015–July 2018 (Rochester: George Eastman Museum)

2016 — Contributor, A Matter of Memory: Photography As Object in the Digital Age (Rochester: George Eastman Museum)

2015 — Contributor, The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Photography, ed. Nathalie Herschdorfer (London & Paris: Thames & Hudson)

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

2023–2024 — 12-Month Chester Dale Fellowship, The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2020–2021 — Graduate Fellowship, “What is Photography?” year-long seminar, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University

2018–2023 — Excellence Fellowship for Doctoral Study in Art History, Rutgers University

2012 — International Work Experience Grant, Ryerson University

CONFERENCES

2023 — Co-organizer & moderator, The Developing Room’s Seventh Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

2022 — Co-organizer & moderator, The Developing Room’s Sixth Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

2021 — Co-organizer & moderator, The Developing Room’s Fifth Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

2021 — Moderator, “Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art,” 11th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University

2021 — Co-organizer & moderator, The Developing Room’s Fourth Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

2020 — Co-organizer & moderator, The Developing Room’s Third Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & AFFILIATIONS

2018–2024 — Art History Graduate Student Organization, Rutgers University

Leadership positions: Treasurer (2021–22), Professional Development Committee (2021–22), and Election Officer (2023–24)

2019–2023 — Colloquium Committee, Developing Room Working Group, Rutgers University

2017 — Juror, Critical Mass, organized by Photolucida