Qualified for Doctoral Advancement May 2020 with the paper “Connections to the Past: Evaluating the Great Mosque of Sana’a as a Case Study for Spolia in Islamic Architecture.”Advanced to Candidacy December 2021 with the dissertation “To Wear, To Eat, To Ride, To See: Object Biographies and The History of Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean.”

Designed, formated, and taught global art history classes to undergraduates: “Muslims and Crusaders: Exchanges of art and culture” and “The Ocean and Art : Marine art, maps, and the ecology of architecture.”Taught peer-edited writing intensive courses that included instruction on The Chicago Manual of Style.Organized and conducted survey level classes to undergraduates both in-person and online. Conducted museum trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Penn Museum.

Wrote several 20+ page scholarly research papers a year on subjects concerning art, architecture, design, economic history, material studies, social history, philosophy, marine studies, and/or religion.Received grants for travel and research: Swenson Family Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscripts, Tyler Dean’s Grant for Student Research (Ethiopia), Temple University Fellowship, Temple University Digital Scholarship Center Award.Designed, recorded, and edited a podcast for STELLA monument biography series.Lectured at conferences at the Vitromusée in Romont, Switzerland; Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; University of Michigan; and Temple University.Wrote and published entries for artists receiving MFAs at Temple University.

The Arthur and Helen Baer Museum Education Intern assists the Curator of Education with a variety of tasks related to the Education program. Interacts with the public, including assisting with Museum tours during Family Weekends, helping with teacher workshops, and greeting school and adult groups. Working on a project that would improve accessibility within the Museum.

Corrected assignments for “Thermodynamics, Optics, and Waves” and “Electricity and Magnetism.” Lead biweekly study sessions and organize weekly lab sections concerning practical uses of the theories taught in class.

Train new Media Consultants within Media Services. Troubleshot and resolved projection, audio/visual and general hardware issues.Professionally used and taught courses in using video conference and virtual teaching software.Managed scheduling of 19 employees for Media events on the Middlebury College campus.Oversaw and troubleshot two online Hebrew Masters level classes for Middlebury College.Coordinate technology needs for events on campus, such as convocation and alumni dinners at the President’s house. Promoted from Media Consultant to Media Lead after 4 months of employment.

Interned as a Science Collections Intern in MuseumWorks, Middlebury College Museum of Art. Once a week, met with other interns to travel and meet with museum professionals, while co-curating a show in the Center Gallery at Middlebury College. The rest of the week was spent archiving and researching items in the Antique Science Collection. From this research, two exhibitions and a case study were produced. Used photogrammetry and structured light scans to scan objects to create three-dimensional images for a digital repository.