PhD, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

MA, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Certificate in Critical Theory, University of Maryland-College Park

MA, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland-College Park

BA with Honors, English, Art History and Criticism, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Research Fellow, Vision & Justice Initiative

McCormick Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Photography and Lecturer, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
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Courses taught:

Fascist Aesthetics: Women and Photography between the World Wars - (ART388/GSS300)
Photography and Fact - (ART380/JRN380)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Derek Book Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Education

Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research Grant for "The Exilic Photography of Etel Mittag-Fodor (1905-2005)"

Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D. C.

Fulbright Research Award, Cape Town, South Africa

Arthur Kingsley Porter Traveling Fellowship, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Graduate Society Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Graduate Student Council Conference Grant, Harvard University

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Advanced study of Zulu, Cape Town, South Africa

Graduate Fellowship in Nigerian Visual Art and Culture for Non-Nigerian Scholars at Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF), Lagos, Nigeria

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Intermediate study of Zulu, Durban, South Africa

Robert H. and Clarice Smith Doctoral Fellowship, Art History and Archaeology Department, University of Maryland-College Park

“‘Because of all the Hazards:’ Naomi Shapiro’s Emergent Archive,” Deep Time, Shallow Time, Visual History & Theory International Workshop, Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Respondent, Emilie Boone, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography, Photography’s Futures Lecture Series, Princeton University.

Symposium Co-organizer (with Josie Johnson, Katherine Bussard, Caroline Riley, and Patricia Hayes) of Photography’s Frameworks, a three-day virtual symposium jointly convened by the Photography Network and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

“Anne Fischer: South African Photographies of Exile and Resistance.” Geographies, Spaces of Experience, and Objects of Migration in Jewish Visual and Material Culture, workshop held by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.

“Photography Against Apartheid: Anne Fischer, Dora Taylor, and the Vale of Grace.” Work in Progress Talk, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University.

“Etel Mittag-Fodor: Architectural Photography, South African Modernism, and the Fabrication of Race." Intersecting Photographies Symposium convened by the Photography Network, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

“Anne Fischer: South African Photography and the Politics of a Failed Photobook.” A Radical Lens: Global Perspectives on the New Woman Behind the Camera, virtual symposium convened by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

“Käthe Kollwitz and the South African Left.” Art Talk Live, given as part of the Harvard Art Museums’ larger ReFrame initiative.

“Denizen Photography: The Postmigrant Work of Else and Helmuth Hausmann.” Urban Exile: Placemaking and Belonging, online symposium held by METROMOD, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Germany.

“From Berlin to Cape Town: New Realism and the South African Photography of Anne Fischer,” A Foreign Eye: Interwar European Photographers Abroad, Association for Art History’s (AAH) 46th Annual Conference, Newcastle University & Northumbria University, England. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)

“The Path to Apartheid: Anne Fischer, Constance Stuart Larrabee, and the Politics of South Africa’s New Realism(s).” Women Photographers Lecture Series, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

“Langa in a Hard, Merciless Light: A Working Woman’s Eye and an Early Documentary Ethos, 1937-1941.” Center for African Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

“An Unsentimental Lens: Anne Fischer and the South African Photography of a Weimar Woman in Exile.” Indexing Transformation: Interventions in Critical Knowledge Production in South Africa, hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

“Boring Pictures of Uninteresting Things: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers.” The Politics of Abstract and Conceptual African and African Diasporic Art, Panel Chair, The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art, University of Ghana.