Scholarship and Biography
Tyson Scholar, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - 2019
“Georgia O'Keeffe, Education, and the Art of Philanthropy”
The 1949 Gift - The Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University.
Critical Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe (Reaktion Books, 2015).
Book project: J. M. W. Turner: The Slave Ship as Abolitionist Icon
The Slave Ship, and its origins, collectors and legacy.
Collecting Turner in America: Auctions and Audiences, 1876-1966
The Frick Collection in Boston, 1910, and the Museum of Fine Arts' first Blockbuster.
Public Sculpture: Politics on a Pedestal
Monuments of the Civil War period, North and South. Contemporary controversies, and public sculpture in context.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Shaw Memorial, Boston Common. Also, Saint-Gardens's early Italian sojourn.
Museum Studies;
The University Museum as site for critical thinking, analysis of visual interpretation, and social action.