European and US-American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present; issues of gender, history, and theory; and the history of photography, film, and media culture
PhD, The History of Art, Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, The University of Michigan
MA, Art History, Queen's University, Canada
BA, Art History, Oberlin College
Books
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, MIT Press, 2019.
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (with Patrick Rössler), English edition: Bloomsbury UK; German edition: Knesebeck Verlag, 2019.
Tempo, Tempo!: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, Jovis Verlag/Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Museum of Design; Harvard Art Museums; and the International Center for Photography, New York, 2005.
Edited books
Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School, (with Patrick Rössler), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
4 "Bauhausmädels": Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, Margaretha Reichardt (with Patrick Rössler, Kai-Uwe Schierz, and Miriam Krautwurst), Sandstein Verlag, 2019. Bilingual catalogue to the co-curated exhibition at the Angermuseum, Erfurt, and in Berlin at the Thuringian State Federal Representaton Building. Exhibition
Passages of Exile (with Burcu Dogramaci), 2017, Edition Text + Kritik, 2017.
New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (with Vanessa Rocco), The University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Getty Scholar, 2021–2022
Northeast Popular & American Culture Association, Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, 2020
The Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2019–2020
National Humanities Center, Frank H. Kenan Fellow, 2017–2018
University at Buffalo Gender Institute Excellence in Mentoring Award, 2017
Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Visiting Fellow, 2016
The University of Pittsburgh’s Humanities Center, Early Career Residential Fellowship, 2010–2011
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Chancellor Fellowship, 2004–2005
Previous Roles
Executive Director, Humanities Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013-2017 and 2018-2019
My work is based in a profound belief in art and visual culture’s capacity not only to reflect the past and the present but also to imagine and shape a better future.