Hello and Welcome!
I am a graduate from the Ph.D. program in Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. My work draws from visual studies, art history and architecture in the study of public space and buildings, art and cultural production in the period between 1750 to the present.
I defended my dissertation in November 2007 and am currently revising this project for publication as a book, Architecture and Regeneration. This interdisciplinary project documents the rise of new architectural types for the public bathhouse in Europe and North America after 1840, with case studies in Berlin, New York, Montreal and London that show how the obsession with social purity and public health penetrated art and aesthetics at turn of the century. Drawing from a wide variety of unpublished documents in medical history, hygiene reform, and municipal politics, this collection of essays will contribute to scholarship on a formative epoch in the history of the city, modernist aesthetics, and the creation of a modern body politic.
This website is an online teaching portfolio that has information about my previous undergraduate courses in Art and Architectural History. If you would like more information about my research, future plans, or experience, I welcome your questions!
