Educational Design and Technology Work

Director of Instructional Design, CUNY Online, 2024 – present

Director of Digital Learning, New York Botanical Garden, 2023

Senior Educational Designer, New York University, 2018-2023

Senior Instructional Designer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2012-2018

Instructional Technology Fellow, School of Professional Studies, CUNY, 2008-2011

Museum and Art Historical Work

Co-founding, Editor, Art History Pedagogy and Practice, 2015

Neighborhood Coordinator, GO: Brooklyn Art, Brooklyn Museum, 2012

Co-Curator, Natural and Supernatural: Andean Textiles and Material Culture, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, September-October 2009

 Senior Intern, Researcher, and Writer, Brooklyn Museum, 2006-2007

Education

Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), MPhil, Art History, Pre-Columbian art and architecture, 2012

University of Chicago, AB, Art History, 1999

Publications

“Bridging the Research/Teaching Divide with Digital Art History and SoTL-AH,” Visual Resources Association (VRA) Bulletin Special Issue: Digital Art History. With Virginia B. Spivey, February 2019

“White Paper on the Need for a Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Art History,” Art History Teaching Resources. With Virginia B. Spivey et al., November 2015

Co-editor with Peter Gray, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: Mentorship and Collaboration, May 2015

Contributing editor, Art History Teaching Resources

Latin America Visualized

Notes on Online Teaching, Part 1, Art History Teaching Resources, March 22, 2013

Classroom Rules, Teaching Fails: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2012

Flora and Fauna, Aztecs at Mexicolore, 2011-2013

“Familiar Contact: Plant Imagery in Mexica (Aztec) Stone Sculpture,” Antennae: The Journal on Nature in Visual Culture 17 (Summer 2011), 86-94.

“Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of ‘Non-Western’ Imagery on Lost,” Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 120-133.

“Nasca and Moche Ceramics,” “Metalwork Objects,” and “Transition Pieces,” Natural and Supernatural: Andean Textiles and Material Culture at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, 2009.

Place Settings, The Dinner Party, 2006-2007

Awards and Fellowships

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Award, Art History Pedagogy + Practice, as part of Art History Teaching Resources, 2015

Altman Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011-2012

CUNY Doctoral Students’ Council Travel & Research Grant to Mexico (Project: Investigating Plant and Animal Symbolism in Aztec Art), 2010-2011.

Instructional Technology Fellowship, CUNY Online Baccalaureate, 2008-2011

CUNY Doctoral Students’ Council Travel & Research Grant to Mexico (Project: Cataloging the Aztec Natural World), 2008-2009

SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) Gulnar Bosch Travel Award, 2008

CUNY Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Practicum (Subject: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), 2007-2008

CUNY Teaching Fellowship (Queensborough Community College, Brooklyn College), 2006-2008

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

“Conducting Constructive Peer Reviews,” College Art Association, Chicago, February 2020.

“Collaboration in Action: The Founding of Art History Pedagogy and Practice,” What Have You Done for Art History Lately? College Art Association, New York, February 2017.

“Crowdsourcing the Art History Survey” (Reexamining the Art History Survey, College Art Association, Washington DC, February 3-6, 2016). As part of Art History Teaching Resources.

“Beyond Tools and Tips: Manifestos about Teaching Digitally” (THATCamp College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-11, 2014). Invited.

“140 Characters or Less” (The Work of Art Criticism in the Age of E-Zines and Blogging, College Art Association, New York, February 13-16, 2013).

Co-chair, Stories between the Lines: Liminal Space in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Images (College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, February 22-25, 2012).

“Connecting and Collaborating on the OpenLab” (CUNY IT Conference, New York, NY, December 1-2, 2011).

“Re-thinking Mexica (Aztec) Plant and Animal Imagery” (Southeastern College Art Conference, Savannah, GA, November 9-12, 2011).

“Aztec, Vegetable, Mineral: Utopias and 16^th-century Mexico” (Society for Utopian Studies Conference, State College, PA , October 20—23, 2011).

“The Magical and the Real, or How the Aztecs Represented Plants”(New York Public Library, July 26, 2011). Invited.

“Exotic Contact: Aztec Wildlife Imagery” (The 2nd Annual Lowenstein Lecture, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, May 2, 2010). Invited.

“Curator’s Panel Discussion: Natural and Supernatural: Andean Textiles and Material Culture” (Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, October 2009). Invited.

“Animalizing an Empire: The Impact of Regional Fauna on Aztec Visual Culture” (Animals: Past, Present, and Future, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 16-18, 2009).

“An Alternative Approach to Teaching Pre-Columbian Art” (Southeastern College Art Conference, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 24-27, 2008).

“ ‘It is black, dark; it has feet’: Aztec Sculpture of the Animal World,” (Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, WV, October 17-20, 2007).

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Art History: Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East (Bronx Community College)

Advanced Technical Writing (New York City College of Technology)

Introduction to Art History (Queensborough Community College, Brooklyn College, and Parsons, the New School for Design)

Modern Art in the City (CUNY Online Baccalaureate)

Professional Service

Founding Member, Art History Pedagogy + Practice

Member, Advisory Board, Art History Teaching Resources

Member, Editorial Collective, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (2012-2015)

Co-coordinator, Adjunct Project, (Graduate Center, CUNY), 2008-2010

Languages

French: Near-native proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking

Spanish: Proficiency in reading and conversational speaking