I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. My research focuses on representations of race in the decorative arts and material culture of eighteenth and nineteenth century France.
I am also a museum educator.
Writing
Malcolm Was Here, New York Review of Architecture
The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance, The Nation
Hard Times: The Radical Art of the Depression Years, The Nation
A Painter Himself: Juan de Pareja and the entangled histories of art and slavery, The Nation
Museum Pessimism, n+1
Art Should Not Be an Investment Vehicle for Rich People, Interview with Tabitha Arnold, Jacobin
Why Columbia Graduate Workers Like Me Are on Strike, Jacobin
Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World, Jacobin
Looking at Art, Regarding History: Gallery Teaching in a Gilded Age Mansion, Journal of Museum Education
My work as a children’s book author and illustrator is here.
