• PhD in Art History, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (May 2025)

Dissertation: “Biopolitical Architecture: Right-Wing Politics and the Design of Healthy Bodies in Romania, 1920-1944.” Main advisor: Paul B. Jaskot

• MA in Art History, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (May 2022)
• BA Hons in History of Art, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (May 2018) 

Research Interests

Architectural history, visual culture, material culture studies, history of science and technology, critical environmental studies, history of medicine, Holocaust and genocide studies, modern European history

Research Publications

• “‘Mothers of an Orphaned People:’ Public Health Nursing and the Politics of Caregiving in Interwar Romania,” Journal of Women’s History (forthcoming)

Recent Reviews

• “Mimesis or Ecology? Alexandra Masgras and Linn Burchert on Bauhaus Ecologies at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau,” ZI Blog (June 4, 2025), co-authored with Linn Burchert
• “The Missing Link: Linn Burchert and Alexandra Masgras review Vernetzte Welten, on view at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg” ZI Blog (August 6, 2025), co-authored with Linn Burchert
• Rezension von: David Serlin: Window Shopping with Helen Keller. Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2025, in: sehepunkte 25 (2025), Nr. 7/8 [15.07.2025], https://www.sehepunkte.de
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Conference Papers and Workshops

• “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.
• Summer Institute, Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University Chicago, June 16-30, 2024 (participant).
• “Sanitized Vernaculars: Designing and Building the Infrastructure of Rural Healthcare in Interwar Romania,” Vernacular Architecture Forum, June 12-16, 2024.
• “Genealogies of Forced Labor in Romania, 1920-1944.” Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., May 28, 2024.
• “Eugenic Architecture: Transnational Ideology and Local Contexts.” Fifth International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, October 16-19, 2023.  
• “Eugenic Visual Culture and the Lure of German ‘Soft Power:’ The International Reach of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1919-1939.” German Studies Association Conference, Montreal, October 5-9, 2023.
• Doctoral Workshop with the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, April 22, 2022 (participant).
• “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.

Fellowships

• DAAD One-Year Doctoral Grant, 2024-2025. Residential fellowship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, October 1, 2024—May 31, 2025
• Sosland Foundation Visiting Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United
• States Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 1, 2023—May 31, 2024
• Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University, 2023
• Summer Research Fellowship for Third-Year Ph.D. Students and Beyond, Duke University, 2022
• Summer Research Fellowship for First- and Second-Year Graduate Students, Duke University, 2021
• James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University, 2019-2023
• University Scholars Fellowship, Duke University, 2019 

Teaching Experience 

• Instructor of Record, Undergraduate Survey Course on Modern Architecture, Duke University, Summer 2023
• Teaching Assistant, History of Art Markets, Professor Hans Van Miegroet, Duke University, Spring 2023
• University Museum Educator, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022  
• Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Architecture (1940 to the Present), Professor Annabel Wharton, Duke University, Fall 2020 

Professional Service

• 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,” November 19, 2021.
• Graduate Student Seminar Series, Co-organizer (with Yasemin Altun), Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, Fall 2021- Spring 2022.
• Graduate Fellow and Mentor, University Scholars Program, Duke University,  2021-2024.