• 2025-2027 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Forschungsgruppe “Kunst, Umwelt, Ökologie”, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich 
• 2019-2025 | Ph.D. in Art History
  Thesis title: “Eugenic Architecture: Designing Modern Buildings and Bodies in Romania, 1920-1944” (Professor Paul B. Jaskot), Duke University, Durham, NC
• 2022 | MA in Art History, Duke University, Durham, NC
• 2014-2018 | BA in History of Art with Honours of the First Class (June 2018), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Research Areas

History and theory of architecture; material culture studies; modern European history; history of public health; history of eugenics; Holocaust studies; critical environmental studies.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2024-2025 | DAAD One-Year Doctoral Grant, 2023-2024, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
• 2023-2024 | Sosland Foundation Visiting Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [Oct 1, 2023—May 31, 2024]
• DAAD One-Year Doctoral Grant, 2023-2024 [declined], Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich 
• 2023-2024 | Sharon Abramson Research Grant, HEFNU [archival research in Romania and Germany, Fall 2023]
• 2023 | James B. Duke International Travel Fellowship [declined] , Duke University [annual fellowship for international research]
• 2022 | Summer Research Fellowship for Third-Year Ph.D. Students and Beyond, Duke University [archival research in Romania and Germany]
• 2021 | Summer Research Fellowship for First- and Second-Year Ph.D. Students, Duke University [archival research in Romania]
• 2020 | Summer Research Fellowship for First- and Second-Year Ph.D. Students, Duke University [research into digitized architecture journals from interwar Romania and Germany]
• 2019-2023 | James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University [departmental nomination, competitive award granting a supplemental $4000 stipend for four years]
• 2019 | University Scholars Fellowship, Duke University [departmental nomination, program designed to create an interdisciplinary diverse community of scholars]

Publications

Forth-coming: “‘Mothers of an Orphaned People:’ Public Health Nursing and the Politics of Caregiving in Interwar Romania”, Journal of Women’s History

Conference Papers and Workshops

• 2024 | “Mediated Encounters: Atrocity Photographs in Postwar Jewish Community Archives”
  27th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites, Utrecht, October 28—November 3, 2024
•  2024 | Summer Institute, Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University Chicago, June 16-30, 2024 (participant)
• 2024 | “Sanitized Vernaculars: Designing and Building the Infrastructure of Rural Healthcare in Interwar Romania”, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Houghton, MI, June 12-16, 2024
• 2023 | “Eugenic Architecture: Transnational Ideology and Local Contexts”, Fifth International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, October 16-19, 2023
• 2023 | “Eugenic Visual Culture and the Lure of German ‘Soft Power:’ The International Reach of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1919-1939”, Annual German Studies Association Conference, Montreal, October 5-9, 2023
• 2022 | Doctoral Workshop with the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, April 22, 2022 (participant)
• 2021 | HEFNU Regional Institute, “Post-War Memory and Memorialization of the Holocaust and Implications for the Present,” December 3-5, 2021 (participant)
• 2021 | Guest lecture, “Fascism as Secular Religion” (by invitation), Undergraduate class, “Place, Space, and Religion”, Instructor: Ehsan S. Mashhadi, Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, February 25, 2021
• 2020 | “Architecture and the Politics of Exclusion: Public Housing and Antisemitic Policy in Romania during World War II”, University Scholars Symposium, Duke University, February 29, 2020

Teaching Experience

• Summer 2023 | Instructor of Record, Undergraduate Survey Class “Modern Architecture”, (Art History Department, crosslisted with International Cultural Studies), Duke University
• S 2020 | Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate course “History of Art Markets”, Prof. Hans van Miegroet, Duke University
• F 2021-S 2022 | Teaching Assistant, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
• F 2020 | Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate course “Contemporary Architecture”, Prof. Annabel J. Wharton, Duke University

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Summer 2023 | Instructor of Record, Undergraduate Survey Course on Modern Architecture, Duke University
• Spring 2023 | Teaching Assistant, History of Art Markets, Professor Hans Van Miegroet, Duke University  
• Fall 2022 | Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Architecture (1940 to the Present), Professor Annabel Wharton, Duke University  
• 2021-2022 | University Museum Educator, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University 
  [organized and led syllabus-specific visits to the Nasher’s contemporary art exhibitions for university classes across the curriculum]
• 2018-2019 | Junior Book Editor, Polirom Publishing House, Iași, Romania  
• 2016-2018 | Museum Educator, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK
  [organized and led visits to the Hunterian’s permanent collection for the general public]  

Professional Service

• 2021 | Annual Guest Speaker Symposium, Committee Co-Chair (with Yasemin Altun)
  Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University 
  Online conference with three guest speakers on the topic “Inclusion/Exclusion: A Panel on Cultural Practices and Responses to Otherness and Marginalization,” Nov 19, 2021 >>
  [fundraising, organization, moderation]
• 2021-2022 | Graduate Student Seminar Series, Co-organizer (with Yasemin Altun)
  Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University. Organized the annual series of intradepartmental graduate student workshops
• 2020 | Reviewer (by invitation)
  Progress & Final Reviews, Advanced Architectural Design Studio “Schools and Neighborhoods.” Instructor: Prof. Burak Erdim
  School of Architecture, North Carolina State University, Oct 21 & Nov 20, 2020
• 2019-2024 | Graduate Fellow and Mentor, University Scholars Program, Duke University