postions, grants

2022–, University of Michigan, History of Art

2023-2024, Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, the Getty Research Institute

2023, The Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2021-2022, Spelman College 

2019-2020,  Georgia State University

2018-, Consultant, Estate of Benjamin Patterson

2018, The Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant

2017, Terra Foundation for American Art International Research Travel Grant Fellow

2017, J. William Fulbright Graduate Fellow, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz


lectures, conferences

October 15, 2024, "Integration, Flow, and Benjamin Patterson – Towards a Pedagogy of Performance," at Museum Ludwig 

April 26-27, 2024,  "Monsterizing Form: Clothes are only the Dressing," NYU Atlantic History Conference, panel: Re-Narrating Gender Histories: Colonial Archives, Literature, and Power

March 15, 2024, "Origins of an Abject Proposition: Harriet Cany Peale's Her Mistress' Clothes," Smithsonian Lunchbag Seminar

December 4, 2023, "Learning and Reading from Benjamin Patterson," Getty Research Institute

June 23, 2023, "Acts of Recognition: Lick Piece and the Female Body in Flux," at The Crazies are on the Loose" digitales Symposium, Museum Ostwall

March 2, 2023, "Transnational Scholarship: Performance, Race, and Archives," at the Visual & Critical Studies Forum, California College of the Arts

September 15-18, 2022, IKT Congress in Louisville, Kentucky

April 3, 2021, "Performance Study: Ben Patterson," via Discrit at Atlanta Contemporary

February 12, 2021, 109th Annual College Art Conference, Interviewer: "20 Years of Critical Race Art History;" and presenter, "Learning from Teaching: Critical Race Art History and African American Art"

February 13, 2019, 108th Annual College Art Conference, Chicago, IL: Panel Co-Chair, "Critical and Liberatory Pedagogies in African American Art," with Dr. Melanee C. Harvey.

February 24, 2018, "Presently Elsewhere: Benjamin Patterson's Flux," at the 106th Annual College Art Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Panel: A Way/s From Home: Blackness Across Nations.


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