Education
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Doctor of Philosophy, 2018 – 2022 (expected) |
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Saint Louis, MO · Major Field: European Art 1860-1960 · Minor Field: American Art 1865-1941 |
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Master of Arts, 2016-2018 |
Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL · Qualifying papers: “Theater of Death: Sarah Bernhardt’s Morbid Photograph and Belle Époque Consumerism” and “Fluid Mediums: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Early Watercolors” |
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Bachelor of Arts, 2010-2014 |
French, Truman State University (TSU), Kirksville, MO · Senior Thesis: “La Vie Surréelle de Baya” |
Teaching Experience
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Fall 2019 |
Teaching Center Student Advisory Council, WUSTL |
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Summer 2019 |
Accessibility Liaison, Visual Resource Center, WUSTL |
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2017 – Current |
Section Leader (Teaching Assistant), WUSTL
· Fall 2019: Introduction to Western Art, Architecture, and Design · Spring 2019: Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture, and Design · Fall 2018: Introduction to Western Art, Architecture, and Design · Spring 2018: Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture, and Design · Fall 2017: Introduction to Western Art, Architecture, and Design |
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2014 – 2015 |
English Language Assistant, Lycée Jacques Feyder, Académie de Créteil, Paris, France |
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2013 – 2014 |
Writing Consultant, Truman Writing Center, TSU |
Departmental Service
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2019-2020 |
Voting Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Advisory Council to the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, WUSTL |
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Spring 2019 |
Committee Member, University Policy and Practice Affecting Students with Disabilities Committee, WUSTL |
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2018-2019 |
Chair, Art History Student Lecture Committee, Afro-Surrealism/Futurism: Radical Black Imagination, WUSTL |
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2018-2019 |
Senator, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Graduate Student Senate, WUSTL |
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2018-2019 |
Peer Mentor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, The Graduate School, WUSTL |
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2017-2018 |
Committee Member, Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
Awards
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Spring 2019 |
Pollard-Stein Teaching Award, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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Spring 2019 |
Travel Grant, Summer Research in France, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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Spring 2019 |
First Place, Outstanding Poster and Presentation in the Arts and Humanities, Graduate Research Symposium, WUSTL |
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Fall 2018 |
Small Change Grant, Civic Engagement Fund, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, WUSTL |
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Summer 2018 |
Travel Grant, Summer Research in France, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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Spring 2018 |
Travel Grant, Conference Presentation at Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference (Indianapolis), Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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Fall 2018 |
Travel Grant, Conference Presentation at Rice University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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2016-2022 |
University Full Tuition Scholarship, WUSTL |
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2011-2014 |
President’s Honorary Scholarship, TSU |
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2013 |
Donna Crawford Study Abroad Scholarship, TSU |
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2010 |
Xavier Merit Scholarship, Xavier University |
Research Conferences
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March 2019 |
“Bryan Page’s Mutated Bodies: Transgressing Physical and Conceptual Boundaries,” Graduate Research Symposium, WUSTL |
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April 2018 |
“Healing Through Integrative Hybridity in Kader Attia’s Reason’s Oxymorons,” Midwest Art History Society, Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana |
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October 2017 |
“A Theater of Death: Sarah Bernhardt’s Morbid Photographs and Belle Époque Consumerism,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Department of Art History, Rice University |
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May 2014 |
“La Vie Surréelle de Baya,” Student Research Conference, TSU |
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January 2014 |
“The Sabine Women: (R)evolution of Women in Art,” Women’s and Gender Research Conference, TSU |
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May 2013 |
“The Women of Jacques-Louis David,” Student Research Conference, TSU |
Publications
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Summer 2019 |
“Taking the Reins, Impressionist Mary Cassatt Captures Early Feminism.” The Art Blog (July 24, 2019): https://www.theartblog.org/2019/07/taking-the-reins-impressionist-mary-cassatt-captures-early-feminism/ |
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Summer 2019 |
“Satire, Art, and Activism: Coco Fusco’s ‘Tin Man’ Plays on American Politics.” The Art Blog (June 20, 2019): https://www.theartblog.org/2019/06/satire-art-and-activism-coco-fuscos-tin-man-plays-on-american-politics/ |
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Spring 2019 |
“Why Are These Here? Antony Gormley’s ‘STAND’, Public Art, and the American Art Museum.” The Art Blog (April 23, 2019): https://www.theartblog.org/2019/04/why-are-these-here-antony-gormleys-stand-public-art-and-the-american-art-museum/ |
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Spring 2019 |
“Rachel Lebo and the Sociology of Architecture.” All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of Saint Louis (March 2019): 17-18. |
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Winter 2018 |
“What Black is and Can Be.” Human Ties (February 18, 2019): https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/murphy-mccoy-afro-surrealism-what-black-and-can-be |
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Winter 2018 |
“CrocoDykes Bite Back: Janie Stamm at Granite City Art and Design District.” Temporary Art Review (Winter 2018): http://temporaryartreview.com/crocodykes-bite-back-janie-stamm-at-granite-city-art-and-design-district/ |
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Winter 2018 |
“[ALT+SPACE]: Alternative Spaces in the Arts.” All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of Saint Louis (Winter 2018): 15-16. |
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Spring 2018 |
“Pablo Picasso, Femmes d’Alger, Lithography, 1955.” https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/1938 |
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Fall 2017 |
“Collaborating Art Institutions.” All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of Saint Louis (Summer 2017): 21-22. |
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April 2019 |
Curator, “Mutating Bodies, Transgressing Boundaries,” April 5-12, 2019 |
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January 2019 – Current |
Regular Contributor, Art Blog, www.theartblog.org |
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Winter 2018 |
Curator, CONSENT/DISSENT, December 8-18, 2018 |
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Fall 2018 |
Founder, [ALT+SPACE] Curatorial Collective, https://altspacepopup.wixsite.com/altspace |
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Spring 2018 |
Gallery talk and research on the lithograph, Femmes d’Alger (1955), by Pablo Picasso, Postwar Prints and Multiples: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum |
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Spring 2018 |
Curator, PORK RIND GOES TO TOWN, Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Department of Art History and Archaeology, WUSTL |
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Fall 2015 |
Curatorial and Editorial Intern, The Luminary, Saint Louis, MO |
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Summer 2015 |
Curatorial Intern, Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum |
Languages
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French |
Fluent (reading, writing, speaking) |
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German |
Reading Proficiency |
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Arabic |
Beginner |
Affiliations
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2018-2019 |
College Art Association |
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2016-2019 |
Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art |
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2018-2019 |
Midwest Art History Society |
Certifications
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2018-2021 |
Mental Health First Aid USA, National Council for Behavioral Health |
