About

I currently serve as the Director of Research and Programs at the George Rickey Foundation. I am also a lecturer at DePaul University in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. I am co-curator of Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer,” scheduled to open in April 2026 at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA before traveling to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. I am also at work on the first ever biography of the artist Claire Falkenstein.

I have worked on curatorial projects, written, and consulted for, the following organizations: the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Center for Italian Modern Art, New York, NY; Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, TN; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA; Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain; Harry Bertoia Foundation, St. George, UT; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX; KANEKO, Omaha, NE; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, IL; Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO; Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, NH; and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI.

I serve on committees for the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association and the Public Art Consortium. I previously served on the Board of Trustees for the International Sculpture Center and Docomomo US/ Chicago.

During 2017-18 academic year I was the George Gurney Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and a Tyson Scholar at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Previous academic appointments have included serving as Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire and the Henry Moore Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. I have also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Southern Methodist University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan.

Education:
2012
PhD, History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2007
MA, Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

2003
BA, Art (Minors in Art History, English, Religion), University of Florida, Gainesville