I received my Ph.D. in Art & Art History from Stanford University in 2018 and my B.A. in Art History from Reed College in 2009. My research interests include the history and theory of photography; technology, art, and the visual construction of power in the American West; networks of communication and theories of transmission; and the study of ephemeral images and folk art.

I am currently working on two book projects. The first, based on the dissertation I defended at Stanford in 2018, is entitled Return to Sender: Photography, Art, and the Mail. Return to Sender is the first book to consider the intertwined histories of American photography and the mail, examining how photographers relied on communication technologies to make and share their work more than a century before digital media. Central to the history of photography though rarely discussed within it, Return to Sender argues that the mail facilitated the production of photographs and proved a key agent in the evolution of the photograph from a singular and costly object to a reproducible and disseminable image.

The second project is a publication about the artist Bernice Bing produced in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum. More information about this project is available upon request.