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Spearheaded a collaborative initiative to publish Song of Ourself: Voices in Unison, a royalty-free anthology of inspirational writing featuring 137 texts and 30 original works of art by women living across five continents. The print edition (Dragolin Indie Press, 2019) won Bronze Medal, General Fiction, in the 2020 Living Now Book Awards. www.songofourself.comWorks with emerging authors on developing and editing creative nonfiction, academic essays, screenplays, short fiction, and collections of poetry.Currently at work on a book of original poems and short prose inspired by works of art.

Designed and taught 5 online courses (including one hybrid course in the Barnes galleries): "European Modernism and the Arts of Africa" (Oct.-Nov. 2022, and Sept. 2020), "Orientalism" (Sept.-Oct. 2022), "Primitivism and Modernism" (June 2022), and "The Surrealist Revolution" (March-April 2021).

Conducted social psychology research and a robust literature review as a co-writer for a peer-reviewed paper on the role of the cognitive perceptions 'warmth' and 'competence' in determining voting intentions and behavior.

New Haven

Served as a teaching assistant for "Early 20th-century Art" (Fall 2015) and "19th-century French Art” (Spring 2018).Demonstrated a commitment to object-based learning by initiating numerous class visits to the Yale University Art Gallery permanent collection and study room for prints, drawings, and photographs, as well as a field trip to The Museum of Modern Art. Devoted special attention to distilling complex theoretical frameworks into concrete approaches to looking at and thinking about art.

Philadelphia

Gained rigorous experience with all aspects of the exhibition lifecycle. Scope of work included building preliminary checklists; performing in-depth object, thematic, and provenance research; managing loan correspondence; writing, editing, and fact-checking exhibition catalogue texts; writing labels and other didactic materials; overseeing gallery installations; giving public tours; and designing and implementing educational programming. Built relationships with members of every museum department as the curatorial liaison for the following three exhibitions: "First Look: Collecting for Philadelphia," Summer 2013 (a museum-wide exhibition of recent acquisitions; promoted to co-curator of the show) "Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting" (With Musée d'Orsay and National Gallery, London, 2014-15)"Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia," Summer 2012

New York, Ny

Following a yearlong training in museum education, gave theme-based tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions on topics including Platonism and Abstraction and Time in Contemporary Art.

New York, Ny

"Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition"

Conducted a research project on Renoir's sculpture and its centrality to his late painting.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History Of Art

Activities and Societies: Co-organizer, 18th- and 19th-century Art and Visual Culture Colloquium

Postgraduate Coursework, 20Th Century Modernism In Europe, History Of Art

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Humanities, With Distinction, Concentration: Intellectual History

Activities and Societies: Gallery Guide, Yale University Art Gallery; Co-editor, Yale Daily News Magazine, Phi Beta Kappa

French Literature

Study abroad in Paris; directly enrolled in courses in French universities.

Art History

Study abroad in Paris; directly enrolled in courses in French universities.

Valedictorian