EDUCATION

PhD Candidate, Yale University, New Haven, CT. History of Art, specialty in Italian and French Renaissance Art. Advisor: Christopher S. Wood. 

Yale University, New Haven, CT.  M.A.. in History of Art, December 2002.

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. B.A. in Art History with Honors, June 2001. Minor in French.

Universite de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.  Spring 2000 semester abroad. Earned D.A.L.F. (diplome approfondi de langue francaise).

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Graduate Curatorial Intern, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Summer 2003. Department of  Old Master Drawings. Worked under Margaret M. Grasselli, researched selected drawings.
• Curatorial Intern, Yale University Art Gallery. 2002- 2003. Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Worked under Suzanne Boorsch. Research and writing in preparation for a traveling exhibition of seventy-five old master drawings from the Yale Collection.
• Member, Street Hall Committee, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. 2002-2003. Organized lecture series of invited art historians and monthly works-in-progress talks by students and professors within the Yale art history department.
• Member, Copia Conference Organizing Committee. 2002-2003. Organized the first annual Renaissance Studies graduate conference hosted by Yale and Princeton in alternation. Organized Yale Renaissance Studies colloquium.
• Member, Art Library Planning Sub-Committee, Yale University. 2002-2003.
• Assistant, Swarthmore College Visual Resources Center. 1998-2001. Independent project, summer 2000: overhaul of American Art collections.
• Intern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Registrar's Office. Summer 1999.

 EXPERIENCE AS YALE TEACHING FELLOW

• Poetics of Humanism in Renaissance Architecture (professor Christy Anderson) Spring 2004
• Building the Western World (professors Christy Anderson and Sandy Isenstadt) Fall 2003
• Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present (professors Anne Dunlop and Christine Mehring) Spring 2003
• Introduction to the History of Art: Pre-History to the Renaissance (professor Vincent Scully) Fall 2002

• Replication as Competition: Re-placing Rome in an all’antica Statue Garden. Word/Image/Body : Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference, Princeton University. 17 April 2004
• Languages of Nobility and Nationalism: France in the Sixteenth Century. Lecture for undergraduate course Poetics of Humanism in Renaissance Architecture.  5 April 2004
• A Mythology of Leisure: Fictive Space and Courtly Play in the Frescoes of the Salle de Bal at Fontainebleau. Copia : Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference, Yale University. 5 April 2003
• For Women, by Women: Teaching Virtue in an Illuminated Manuscript by Christine de Pizan (Beinecke MS. 427). Textual Effects : Medieval Studies Graduate Conference, Yale University. 19 October 2002 

 LANGUAGES

French, Spanish, German, Italian

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• College Art Association
• Renaissance Society of America
• Metropolitan Museum of Art

AWARDS

• Summer Foreign Language Institute at Yale: Graduate Fellowship in Italian, 2004
• Yale Summer Study Fellowships, 2002 and 2003
• Gutmann Fellowship 2001-2003