Curriculum Vitae (selected)
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Jul 2021– present Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia
Associate Professor, Global Contemporary Art
Aug 2011 – July 2022 (leave of absence, 2021-22)
Florida International University, Miami
Associate Professor (tenured), Contemporary Art and Theory (Aug 2017–Jul 2022)
Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art and Theory (Aug 2011–Jul 2017)
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (Jun 2013–Jul 2021)
Affiliate Faculty, African and African Diaspora Program (Aug 2014–Jul 2021)
Director, MFA in Visual Arts: Studio + Curatorial Practice (Aug 2012–Dec 2017)
OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
New York University, New York City
Visiting Scholar, Asian/Pacific/American Institute (Sep 2018–Dec 2019)
Visiting Scholar, Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality (Sep 2010–May 2011)
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Critical Global Studies Fellow (Sep–Dec 2016)
University of Fine Arts, Poznań, Poland (Jun–Aug 2016)
Fulbright Scholar, Art History
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (Sep–Dec 2015)
Fulbright Scholar, Art History
SELECTED MUSEUM & CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
UrbanGlass, Brooklyn
Curator at Large (Jan 2023–Feb 2024)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Executive Assistant, Director’s Office (Jan 2002 – May 2005)
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Special Projects Coordinator, Director’s Office (Jan – Jun 2000)
Catalog Coordinator (film/video), 2000 Biennial exhibition (Jun – Dec 1999)
Curatorial/Research Asst., “The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950–2000” catalogue (Dec 98–May 99)
RoseLee Goldberg
Research assistant on Goldberg’s Laurie Anderson, Abrams, 2000 and Performance Art: Live Art Since 1960, Abrams, 1998 (F/T: Sep–Dec 1998; P/T: Jan–Mar 1999)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Residencies
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, David Whitehouse Research Residency, Summer 2026
Headlands, San Francisco, California, Artist in Residence, Sep-Nov 2024
Fellowships
Loughborough University, England, Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship, May 2022
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Critical Global Studies Fellowship, Sep–Dec 2016
U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program, Fulbright Fellowship, Poland, Sep–Dec 2015 and Jun−Aug 2016
Grants & Scholarships
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Research Grant, 2024-26
Danish Arts Foundation, Curatorial Research Grant, 2024-25
European Union Erasmus+ Program, Scholarship from Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, July 2018
Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence, Research Grant, Summer 2017
City of Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council, Junior Anchor Grant to develop year-round programming for FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS), 2014, 2013, 2012, and an in-kind matching grant for each year from the College of Architecture + Arts, FIU
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Scholarship, 2012, A/P/A Inst., NYU
Grants for exhibition “Mixing It Up: Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street,” 2007: Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts (British Government), Manchester City Council, Neighborhood Renewal Funding Culture Grant, and Univ. of Manchester, Migration, Diaspora and Cultural Studies Network Grant
EDUCATION
University of Manchester, England
PhD, Art History and Visual Studies
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
BA in History of Art with distinction in major