About
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Smith College. I received my Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University. My research explores intersections of art and medicine in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French empire, attending closely to intersections of gender, race, health, and power. I was recently named an ACLS fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. My research has previously been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, and a short-term fellowship from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. My writing has appeared in venues such as Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Medical History, Nursing Clio, and Synapsis: a Health Humanities Journal. I also currently serve as the co-chair of the Servics to Historians of Visual Arts Committee within the College Art Association.
At Smith College, I teach courses on the art and visual culture of the long 19th century. Topics have included the intersection of art and medicine, race and gender in the history of photography, and the intersection of histories of imperialism and design in the West. My pedagogy emphasizes how objects and images construct 19th-century understandings of race, gender, health, and power, and I encourage students to recognize how this thinking continues to permeate contemporary culture.
Prior to my graduate work, I earned my BA in Art History and French and Francophone studies with a minor in English at Villanova University. I have previously taught English in Briançon, Hautes Alpes, France, through the TAPIF program.