I am a PhD student 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 Europe.

I am also a museum educator.

Writing

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.

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