FIELD AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Landscape history and American studies with interests in the history and theory of the American landscape (Settlement to Civil War), Anglo-American aesthetic theory, environmental history, and the built environment.
EDUCATION
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 2021.
Minor Field: American Environmental History; Major Field: Anglo-American Landscape History
Dissertation title: Britain’s Imperial Prospects and the Aesthetic Origins
of the Scenographia Americana(1725-1775)
Advisor: Erika Naginski
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, MA Design Studies, History/Theory, with Distinction, 2011.
Thesis title: The Nascent Picturesque, Visualizing Wilderness and Industry in the New World
Advisor: Erika Naginski
Cornell University College of Art Architecture and Planning, Bachelor of Architecture, 1999-04;
Concentrations in Visual Studies and Theory
Advisors: Vincent Mulcahy and Jerry Wells
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard College
Teaching Fellow, Prof. Henri Zerner, The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance
(History of Art and Architecture, Spring 2015)
Teaching Fellow, Prof. Joseph Connors, Baroque Art and Architecture
(History of Art and Architecture, Fall 2014)
Teaching Fellow, Profs. Neil Levine and Joseph Connors, Landmarks of World Architecture
(History of Art and Architecture, Spring 2014, Spring 2016)
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Teaching Fellow, Prof. Sonja Duempelmann, Histories of Landscape Arch. II
(Landscape Architecture, Spring 2015)
Teaching Fellow, Prof. Ed Eigen, Histories of Landscape Arch. I
(Landscape Architecture: Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
Boston Architectural College
Instructor, Environmental History and Modernity (Spring 2016)
Instructor, Advanced Architecture Studio (Fall 2012)
Cornell University
Instructor, Design Studio (Summer 2010)
Teaching Assistant, Design Studio (Summer 2006)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Harvard Art Museums, "Philosophy Chamber" (2017) Research Assistant; Cambridge, MA (Summer 2015)
mos, model-making, film research, drafting; New Haven, CT (2/11 - 7/11)
William Stout Publishers & Bookstore, Marketing Director for publications; San Francisco, CA (9/08 - 8/09)
William Duff Architects, Project Manager; San Francisco, CA (9/06 - 1/08)
Mitchell & Stout Architects, Junior Designer and Construction Observation; Auckland, NZ (9/05 - 6/06)
architectus, Junior Designer; Auckland, NZ (2/05 - 8/05)
PUBLICATIONS
"Views of the Middle Colonies." The British Library: Picturing Places. (Spring 2016), web
"Assembling the Landscape of Zion: History and Perception in the Mormon Overland Experience." Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism. (Fall 2015), 10-23
"Natural Vision in Picturesque Travel Itineraries.” Chicago Art Journal. Vol. 21 (August 2012), 74-92
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Viewshed Analysis of Six Elegant Views... Taken on the Spot in the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence," Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, 2017 Winter GIS Institute, Brown University (January 20, 2017)
“Seeing Overseas: Visualizing the Effects of the Seven Years' War in Quebec,” The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (January 11, 2017)
“An Aesthetic Imperium: Britain's 'Elegant Views' of New France," Britain and the World Conference, King's College, London (June 22, 2016)
“Visualizing an Acadian Middle Ground in England’s Scenographic New World,” American Art Graduate Student Symposium, Department of the History of Art, Yale University (April 16, 2016)
"Copley Seams in Watson and the Shark: The Figural Stitching of Subject, Artist, and Genre." New England and the World: American and New England Studies, Boston University (October 25, 2014)
"Assembling the Landscape of Zion: History and Perception in the Mormon Overland Experience." New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 36th Annual Student Symposium, Harvard University (February 2, 2014)
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University GSAS (2018-2019)
Winterthur Dissertation Research Fellowship (2018)
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University (Fall 2017)
Yale Center for British Art, Visiting Scholar Award (2017)
John Carter Brown Library, Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellowship (2017)
Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University (travel/study in the U.K. 2016-2017)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Canada Program Research Grant (Summer 2016)
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Research Support Grant (Summer 2016)
Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Doctoral Residency, Washington, D.C. (September 2015)
Resident Fellow, BAER Art Center, Hofsós, Iceland Selected Works (June 2012)
Brett Culbert and Rea Irvin. Cover: "Loading..." The New Yorker (February 13 & 20, 2012)