Education

Rutgers University, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History (ABD), 2019 – Expected 2026, Dissertation: “Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800”

University of Delaware, M.A. in Art History, 2019, Master’s Thesis: “Base Desires: Bernini and the Borghese Sleeping Hermaphrodite”

New York University, B.A. in Art History, Minor in Classics, 2016, Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors    

Awards and Fellowships                                                                      

2025 – 2026   
Chester Dale Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Metropolitan Museum of Art

2024 – 2025   
Anthony M. Clark Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, American Academy in Rome

2023                   
Fondazione Lemmermann Fellowship in Rome (first-prize winner)

2021                   
University Merit Graduate Scholarship, Rutgers University

2019 – 2024 
Excellence Fellowship, Department of Art History, Rutgers University

2017 – 2019
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Art History, University of Delaware

2016                   
Eileen Guggenheim Award, Department of Art History, New York University

2016                   
University Honors Scholar/Founder’s Day Award, New York University

2015                   
Herman J. Wechsler Award, New York University

2015                   
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Grant, New York University

Publications

2026                   
“Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (forthcoming)     

2026                   
Review: Francesca Borgo and Ruth Ezra, eds., Wastework: Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor (2024), in Sculpture Journal (forthcoming)     

2025                   
“Reinventing New St. Peter’s Basilica: Fantasy in Early Modern Architectural Drawing,” in Artibus et Historiae (forthcoming)

2025                   
Permanent Accident, with Devon Dikeou, zingmagazine books #10

2022                   
Catalogue entry on five objects, Guido Reni: Die Schönheit des Göttlichen, exh. cat., Städel Museum, Frankfurt (in collaboration with Museo del Prado, Madrid)       

2015                   
“Raphäel, Sideboard.” in the auction catalogue Design, ed. Alex Heminway, Phillips New York, 9 June, Lot 78

Curatorial

2026                   
Ruins Revisited: The Fragment in Contemporary Art (forthcoming)

2025                   
CineLetteraria: Readings from That Bowling Alley on the Tiber (2025, ed.) by Michelangelo Antonioni and a Screening of The Passenger (1975)

2025                   
Installation of Lizzi Bougatsos’s Self Portrait 2012 (The Dikeou Collection, Denver) in the Atrium of the American Academy in Rome

Conferences and Symposia                                            

2023                   
“‘Remembering’ River Gods: The Restoration and Afterlife of the Vatican Sculptures,” Mnemosyne: Forgetting, Remembering, and Rediscovering Classical Antiquity, The Warburg Institute & the Institute of Classical Studies, London

2021                   
“Reimagining New St. Peter’s Basilica: Fantasy in Early Modern Architectural Drawing,” Spiritual City: Fantasy and Fiction in Architectural Process, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (online)

2021                   
Co-Organizer, Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art, Rutgers University, Keynote Speakers Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis (online)

2019                   
“On Bernini’s Bed: Sex, Marriage, and Gender in the Borghese Sleeping Hermaphrodite,” Disruptions: Challenges to Normative Female Behavior and Form, SECAC

2019                   
“On Bernini’s Bed: Sex, Marriage, and Gender in the Borghese Sleeping Hermaphrodite,” University of Delaware

2018                   
“Between Ancient and Modern: A Speculation on Valentin de Boulogne’s Classical Fragments,” University of Delaware

Guest Lectures

2025                   
“Baroque Montage: Sequencing Spolia in Early Modern Rome,” Open Stacks, American Academy in Rome

2025                   
“Permanent Accident,” Fellow Shoptalks, American Academy in Rome

2024                   
“Pastiche and Capriccio in Early Modern Drawing,” American Academy in Rome

2024                   
“Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800,” American Academy in Rome

2023                   
“Michelangelo’s Last Judgment,” Rutgers University

2021                   
“Portraits of Women: 1400-1600,” Rutgers University

2021                   
“Looking at Renaissance Art,” Rutgers University

2021                   
“Bernini and the Early Modern Interest in Restoring Ancient Sculpture,” University of Delaware                       

2021                   
“Italian Baroque Art and Architecture,” Middlesex College

2020                   
“Roman Imperial Sculpture: The First Three Dynasties,” Rutgers University

2020                   
“Experiencing Architecture,” Rutgers University

Research Languages                                                                                                

French: proficient

Italian: proficient

German: reading knowledge

Latin: reading knowledge