Demonstrated experience in administrative support and project management for multiple supervisors, executives, and departments. Acumen in research, writing, and copy-editing correspondence, reports, and publications. Content creation of academic texts and articles as well as spreadsheets, presentations, and reports. Supported the development and implementation of public event programming. Exceptional verbal, written, and interactive communication skills. Excellent ability to manage and complete multiple projects. Sustained interest in art and culture philanthropy, non-profit, and academic communities.
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
DeGruyter
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany
The Public School Los Angeles, part of The Poetic Research Bureau
Museum of Tolerance–Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 112: History of Photography” (2006)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 102: Western Art from the Middle Ages to the Present” (2006)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 271: Origins of Modernism: French 19th Century Visual Culture” (2005)
“Galerie Parnass.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021
“Galerie Der Spiegel.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021
“Galerie van de Loo.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021
“The Red Flag: The Art and Politics of West German Maoism.” Art, Global Maoism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Co-authored with Daniel Spaulding. Eds. Noemi de Haro García, Jacopo Galimberti, and Victoria H.F. Scott, 109-127. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019
“Introduction.” Everything Else is Even More Ridiculous: A Decade of Noise & Politics. Datacide Magazine Issues 1-10. Eds. Christoph Fringeli, Lauren Graber, et al, 11-13. Berlin: Datacide Books, 2015
“Creators of New Values: Gruppe SPUR and Drakabygget–The Workshop of Freedom.” Expo Jorn, Art is a Festival. Eds. Karen Friis and Karen Kurczynski, 46-49. Silkeborg: Museum Jorn, 2014
In progress The Politics of Cold War Expression: Gruppe SPUR, Gruppe GEFLECHT, and Kollektiv Herzogstrasse, 1957-1982
“Kollektiv Herzogstrasse at the Drakabygget Commune: International Artistic-Political Collaborations during the 1970s,” German Studies Association 44th Annual Conference, 2020
“Collecting the Art of Käthe Kollwitz in the U.S.: Walter Landauer in Dialogue with Emil Richter, Alexander Wagner, Dr. Jur. Portius, Alexander von der Becke, and Hudson Walker,” Getty Research Institute, Käthe Kollwitz Research Project Workshop, 2018
“West German Anti-Authoritarian Education and the Children’s Shops Movement in the 1970s,” College Art Association 106th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 21, 2018
“The Red Flag: Jörg Immendorff’s Maoist Art and the Communist Party of Germany,” College Art Association 105th Annual Conference, New York, 2017
“From Kindergarten to the Akademie: Art and Social Change in Munich during and after 1968,” German Socialisms GSA Interdisciplinary Network panel, German Studies Association 39th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 2015
“Occupy the Art Academy: Gruppe GEFLECHT and the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Munich, 1967-1970,” German Studies Association 38th Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2014
“Networked Counter-Cultural Strategies,” The Public School Los Angeles, 2013
“Gruppe SPUR in ‘Exile’: International Collaborations in Scandinavia,” Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Panel “The Visual Arts in Cold War Germany and Beyond,” German Studies Association 34th Annual Conference, Oakland, California, 2010
“Gruppe SPUR: Confronting Repressive Boundaries of Cold War Culture and Politics in Bavaria,” Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference, University of Texas, Austin, 2010
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2011
Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2011
Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2010
Berlin Program Fellowship for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, 2009
German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD) Research Grant, 2008
Rackham International Research Award, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2007
Research Grant, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2006
Research Grant, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2005
Distinction in the Major and High Honors for Senior Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
Chancellor’s Research Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
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