• 2019-Present | Ph.D. Candidate 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

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]
• 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

“‘Mothers of an Orphaned People:’ Public Health Nursing and the Politics of Caregiving in Interwar Romania”, Journal of Women’s History [under review]

Conference Papers and Workshops

• 2024 | HEFNU Summer Institute [participant], Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University, Chicago, June 16-28, 2024
• 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

Professional Service

• 2021 | Arpeggio Annual Symposium Committee Co-Chair
  Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University
  Online symposium with three invited speakers on the topic “Inclusion/Exclusion: A Panel
  on Cultural Practices and Responses to Otherness and Marginalization”, Nov 19, 2021
• 2021-2022 | Intermezzo Seminar Series, Co-organizer
  Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University
  Organized a series of intradepartmental graduate student presentations
• 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-Present | Graduate Fellow
  University Scholars Program, Duke University
  Attended interdisciplinary seminars with Duke faculty; mentored undergraduate students.