Experience

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture

• Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Smithsonian Institution

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consulting Historian

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  In connection with the 175th anniversary, I am helping Smithsonian Archives to produce a new web exhibition, "From Smithson to Smithsonian" (launching in May 2022), and working with Smithsonian Books on a reissue of A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture (co-authored with Amy Ballard and first published in 2009). In 2019-20 I worked with Advancement to write the main essay for the FY2019 Annual Report as well as some other writing projects. In connection with the 175th anniversary, I am helping Smithsonian Archives to produce a new web exhibition, "From Smithson to Smithsonian" (launching in May 2022), and working with Smithsonian Books on a reissue of A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture (co-authored with Amy Ballard and first published in 2009). In 2019-20 I worked with Advancement to write the main essay for the FY2019 Annual Report as well as some other writing projects.



Smithsonian Institution Archives

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Associate

  • 2000 - Present



Katonah Museum of Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guest Curator

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2022

  I curated ARRIVALS, on view October 3, 2021 - January 23, 2022 at the KMA. Organized around seven "arrival moments" -- Columbus, the Middle Passage, the Mayflower, Ellis Island and Angel Island, WW2, 1965, and Today -- ARRIVALS is a conversation across several centuries about the stories we have told ourselves and those we have kept silent. The exhibition, which features artworks from the 16th century to the present, explores how artists have reckoned with some of the myths and origin stories that have shaped American identity.



Center for Italian Modern Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Executive Director

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2018

  Guided launch and helped shape program and identity of new nonprofit exhibition and research center. Guided launch and helped shape program and identity of new nonprofit exhibition and research center.