Curriculum Vitae

  • PhD in American Studies (May, 2022) The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

    Master of Art in Visual and Critical Studies (2015), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    Bachelor of Art in Art Studio and Russian (2012), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

  • Frankel Institute Fellowship, Theme Year: Jewish Visual Cultures (2023-24), The Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Dissertation Writing Fellowship (Spring 2022), University of Texas at Austin

    American Studies Research Award, (2020-2021), University of Texas at Austin

    University Graduate Continuing Fellowship (2020-21), University of Texas at Austin

    Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellow (Summer 2021), Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA

    American Studies Dissertation Kickoff Award (2020), University of Texas at Austin

    Les Dames Escoffier Endowed Presidential Fellowship in American Studies (2018-19), Les Dames Escoffier Dallas Chapter

    Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Summer Fellow (2012), Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University

  • “A Bridge at Powell and Clay: Designing Chinese American Community in the San Francisco Chinatown YWCA,” Buildings and Landscapes. Spring 2024.

    “Simcha,” Frankel Center Annual, 2023-24: Jewish Visual Cultures

    “What Am I - Chopped Suey?: Belonging and the Ambivalent Taste of American Exceptionalism,” co-authored with Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, conference proceedings of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2022: Food and Movement.

    “Washrooms and Waterfalls: The Pleasure Architecture of the Madonna Inn’s Bathrooms,” SCA Roadside journal, Fall, 2023.

    “A Tabernacle in the Mojave Desert: George Van Tassel’s Integratron,” SCA Roadside journal, Spring, 2022.

    Invited Book Review: Image Operations: Visual Media and Political Conflict, ed. by Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk. Journal of Visual Culture: Vol. 16, Issue 3, Dec, 2017.

    “No More [green] Than Any Other City” ‘Merica Magazine, September 27, 2015.

    “Preliminary Materials Toward the Theory of the Female Intellectual,” Writing From Below vol. 2, 2014.

  • Lecturer (2022-23), Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

    • The American Left

    • Main Currents: US History 1865-Present

    • Introduction to American Studies

    Graduate Student Instructor (2019-20) Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

    ● American Utopias

    Teaching Assistant (Spring and Summer, 2019), Department of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

    ● Engineering Communications

    Teaching Assistant (2016-17), Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

    ● Design in the USA

    ● Introduction to American Studies

    Instructor (2014) Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    • Soviet Science Fictions

    Teaching Assistant (2013) Department of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    • Honors Thesis Workshop

    • Film and Media History

    Writing Tutor (2013), Writing Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Invited Talk: “A Room of Her Own: Julia Morgan and the Architecture of Working-Class Women’s Spaces in San Francisco,” University of Cincinnati (February 2024)

    Invited Panelist: “Family and the Left,” Platypus Affiliated Society Southern Regional Conference, University of Texas at Austin (October, 2022)

    “Cooperate to Achieve:” Constructing Chinese American Identity for Los Angeles’s Tourism Economy in New Chinatown,” Association for Asian American Studies 2022 Annual Conference: Ruin and Renewal

    What Am I—Chopped Suey?: Belonging and the Ambivalent Taste of American Exceptionalism (co-authored with Dr. Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus), Dublin Gastronomy 2022: Food and Movement. Virtual/Dublin, Ireland.

    “Between Matter and Spirit: The Radical Politics Behind the Future-Building of Paolo Soleri’s Arcologies,” A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, and Precarity, Berkeley/Stanford Symposium. April, 2018. SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA.

    “Looking Forward: On Socialism and its Aesthetic Discontents,” Elsewhere in Elsewhen: Autofiction as Utopia Conference, March, 2018, Kleve, Germany.

    “Free Energy: George Van Tassel’s UFOlogy as Reactionary Science,” Historical Society of Southern California Conference, February, 2018, Pomona, CA

    “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome of Central California: A Journey Through the Psychosexual Architecture of the Madonna Inn,” The World in American Studies Today Conference, March, 2017, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

    “No More Green Than Any Other City: Stories of the Metropolitan American Midwest Told Through the City Museum in St. Louis,” Visual and Critical Studies Symposium, March, 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    “A Sense of Wunder: Divine Construction of Rudolf II’s Kunstkammer,” Ways of Knowing: Religious Studies Conference, October, 2014, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    “Strange Chalices of Vision: Collections of Vanishing Worlds,” Black and White, Red and Blue: Visual Culture Conference, October, 2014, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO

  • Freelance Editor, private clients, ongoing (2015-present)

    Freelance Writer, Office of Institutional Development, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016-present)

    Assistant Editor of Thinking in Public, History Department, UT-Austin (2017-19)

    Editorial Assistant, Communications Office, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014-15)

    Research Assistant, Office of Fine Arts, Parsons the New School for Design (2013)

  • Interview: “From Gold Mountain to Tinseltown” Frankely Judaic podcast episode (March 2024)

    Discussant: “You, Me, and Politics Makes Three,” Subjective Conditions podcast episode (Sept. 16, 2022)

    “The Dialectic of Sex,” Red Library podcast episode (March 4, 2019)