My dissertation, Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973-1988, considered alternative institutions and cultural intersections in bicentennial-era Los Angeles. I argue that alternative arts infrastructure produced nuanced social and spatial convergences, particularly in the context of a redeveloping downtown. My other research interests include legacies of conceptual and performance art, artist identity in the twilight of the welfare state, manifestations of community, urban ideologies, and social movement geographies.

Selected Academic Presentations

October 2025:  "Caretaker State: CETA, Los Angeles Artists, and the Ethics of Public Care," Health/Care at the 81st Annual Conference of SECAC, Cincinnati, OH.

October 2024: "The Rebirth of Wonder: Linda Frye Burnham, High Performance, and the Art of Correspondence," Women and Mail Art: Gendered Perspectives on Marginal Artistic Practices, University of Warsaw and University of Bern (online).

October 2023: "Locating Jerry Dreva," Work-in-Progress Conversations, Liberal Arts and Sciences Department, Otis College of Art and Design (online).

February 2023: "How to Have Fun in Dystopia: Harry Gamboa, Jr.’s L.A. Urbanscape," Art History and Social Justice in Action, CAA Annual Conference (online), 2023. 

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February 2021: “Michael Asher, Landlord: LACE, Managerial Power, and Remaking Downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s," Contested Terrain: Art and Urban Crisis after 1960. CAA Annual Conference (online), 2021.

September 2017: “Artifacts of Critical Intervention in 1970s Los Angeles: The Formation of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,” Early Research Initiative Student Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.

March 2017: "Channel Heights Defense Housing: Trial and Error in Richard J. Neutra’s Pocket Utopia," 33rd Annual Graduate Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture, Boston University, Boston.

May 2016: “Materiality from Below: Ritual and Symbolic Functions of the Cosmatesque Pavement,” 5th Annual Art History Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Riverside.

Public Talks, Conversations, and Media

July 2025: Moderator, artist talk with Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Regina Herod, and Snezana Saraswati Petrovic on the occasion of their exhibition: “Disrupting Tomorrow: Embodiment of Post-Human Feminism, Nature, and the Post-Colonial," Neo LA Gallery, Los Angeles.

May 2025: "The Radical Intimacy of the House Gallery," Episode 259 of What's My Thesis? podcast by Javier Proenza.

June 2024: "New Kid on the Block: 839," Zingmagazine. Interview by Brandon Johnson.

December 2019: "Roughness," The Arc with Marrikka Trotter, podcast by SCI-Arc.

July 2017: “After Truitt: On Anne Truitt’s Work and Impact,” Community Free Day, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York.