Education
Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY
2016-2022
PhD, History of Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
MPhil, 2020
Columbia University Exchange Scholar in Architectural History
Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize acknowledging the work of an outstanding doctoral dissertation and contribution to the fields of decorative arts, design history, and material culture
Parsons School of Design/Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY
2010-2013
MA, departmental honors, History of Decorative Arts and Design
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
2008-2009
Co-matriculation through Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia and Wayne State University, Detroit
Art History and German Studies
Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
2006-2010
BA cum laude, German Language and Literature; European Studies; Art History
Phi Beta Kappa
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
2022 Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize
2020 Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Library Research Grant
2020 Fulbright-Mach Research Award, Vienna, Austria (Declined)
2019 Bard Graduate Center Conference Travel Grant Award
2019 Parsons Part-time Faculty Development Award – Conference Speaker
2018 Parsons Part-time Faculty Development Award – Conference Speaker
2017 Parsons Part-time Faculty Development Award – Conference Speaker
2017 International Council of Museums, Decorative Arts & Design Committee Scholarship
2016 Doctoral Fellowship, Bard Graduate Center
2015 Parsons Part-time Faculty Development Award – Research
2013 Parsons Departmental Honors Thesis Award
2012 Parsons Conference Travel Grant Award
2010-2012 Parsons Dean’s Scholarship
2010-2011 Parsons Dean’s Fellowship, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Fellow
2010 Saint Joseph’s University, Claver Prize, Exceptional Senior Thesis Award
2010 Phi Beta Kappa Award
2010 Saint Joseph’s University, German Award
2008-2010 Herta M. Stephenson Scholarship in German Studies
Academic Experience
2020 – 2022
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Design
2014 – 2020
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
School of Art and Design History and Theory
School of Constructed Environments
Part-Time Faculty
2016-2017
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Glass Department
Lecturer
Professional Experience
2022-2024
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Curator of Drawings & Archives
2020 – 2022
Victor J. Papanek Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Archivist
2017 – 2020
R & Company
Director of Archives & Publications
2016 – 2017
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Research Assistant to Dean Peter N. Miller; Online Research Forum Consultant
2014 – 2016
Neue Galerie New York, Museum for German and Austrian Art
Manager, Education and Visitor Services; Library Collection Cataloguer (2012-2016)
2014
Elskop Scholz Architecture + Design
Records Archivist, Helen Huntington Hull Collection
2013 – 2014
Sotheby’s 20th Century Design Department
Cataloguer
2010 – 2013
Fellowship with Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Internships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art – American Wing, Neue Galerie New York, Museum for German and Austrian Art, and Phillips Design Department
Service
Society of Architectural Historians, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, Research Committee (2023–Present)
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, Education Committee (2017-2020; 2022–Present)
Society of Architectural Historians, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group, Emerging Scholars Working Committee (2022–2023)
Neue Galerie Junior Council Co-Chair (2018–2020)
Neue Galerie Educational Programming Consultant (2017–2020)
Neue Galerie Exhibition Docent (2014–2020)
Memberships
Phi Beta Kappa, Saint Joseph’s University
Delta Phi Alpha, German National Honor Society
College Art Association
Design History Society
Society of Architectural Historians
Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art and Architecture
Central European History Society
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