American Studies

Education

• Ph.D., American Studies, Brown University (in progress);
• M.A., Public Humanities, Brown University (2015);
• M.A., History, University of Delaware (2012); 
• B.A., English Literature, Swarthmore College (2005).

Exhibitions

• Curator, Flowers of the Ocean: A History of Seaweed Collecting in Newport. Exhibit at the Museum of Newport History, 2014.
• Co-Curator, The Lost Museum. Exhibition by the Jenks Society for Lost Museums, Brown University (Providence, RI), 2014.

Teaching

• Instructor, "Unsettled Things: Objects and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America," Spring 2016.
• Teaching Assistant, "Crime and the City," Fall 2015.
• Teaching Assistant, "Cities of Sound: Place and History in American Pop Music," Spring 2015.
• Teaching Assistant, "Museum Collecting and Collections," Fall 2014.

Fellowships

• Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, M.A., February 2016 – October 2017.
• Buchanan/Burnham Fellowship in Historical Interpretation, Newport Historical Society, Newport, RI, Summer 2014.
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship for Research in Montreal, Quebec, 2012-13.