Education

Rutgers University, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History (ABD), 2019 – Expected 2027   

Dissertation: Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe & Anticipating Modernism

University of Delaware, M.A. in Art History, 2019

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

Fellowships and Awards

2026 – 2027   
University & Louis Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University

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

Curatorial

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

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

Talks                                            

2026                 
“Finishing the Open Work: Imagined Restorations of the Belvedere Torso,” Matter of Time: Transformation, Persistence and Discontinuity in the Life of Artworks, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (forthcoming)

2026                   
“‘Imagining Completion: Restoring Beyond Ancient Statues,” Research Out Loud, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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 & Anticipating Modernism” American Academy in Rome

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

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