About

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University. I study nineteenth-century American art and the Black diaspora, specifically the contested histories of landscape painting, Black identity, and belonging in the transatlantic world.

My current book project is titled The Wanderer’s Eye: Robert Duncanson, Radical Mobility, and the Black American Artist Abroad. This project examines Duncanson’s landscape paintings as an embodiment of Black freedom, as engaged in antislavery aesthetics, and as evidence of a Black artist’s participation in the transatlantic artistic community of the nineteenth century. This is the first book to analyze Duncanson’s travel-based landscape paintings, and to argue that his self-directed movement – his “radical mobility” – was an activist practice.

My writings have appeared in African Arts, Edge Effects, EPOCH, SEQUITUR, caa.reviews, and elsewhere. I was a 2022-2023 recipient of a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art and, as an undergraduate, received the Stella and Rensselaer W. Prize in Art History at Princeton University. My curatorial experience includes the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and testsite in Austin. I have also held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the LLILAS Benson Latin American Collection Library.

I earned my PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and my BA in Art & Archaeology from Princeton University.