Curriculum Vitae
Education
August 2018 – present
PhD Candidate, Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
M.Phil., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
History of Photography, major; Art since 1900, minor. Area of focus: Algeria, Gender
August 2014 – January 2016
M.A., Stony Brook University, SUNY, New York, NY
Philosophy and the Arts, Advanced Certificate in Art History
August 2008 – June 2012
B.A., College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Philosophy Major, Visual Art Major
Additional Education
Modern Standard Arabic, Qalam wa Lawh, Morocco, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021
French, FIAF Manhattan, NY, Winter, Spring, and Fall 2016
Expressive Figure Painting, Pratt Institute, Seattle, WA Spring 2013
Film and Video, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA Summer 2007
Professional Appointments
Adjunct Lecturer, Art History, Bronx Community College, Fall 2022
Adjunct Lecturer, Art History, New York City College of Technology, Spring 2022
Adjunct Lecturer, Art History, Brooklyn College, Fall 2019 – Fall 2022
Graduate Assistant, Art History Department, Graduate Center, 2018 – 2020
Collections Manager (Photography), Triple Net Ventures, 2018 – 2019
Office Manager, Gachot Studios, New York, NY 2017 – 2019
Director’s Assistant, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 2016 – 2017
Gallery Manager, Denis Gardarin Gallery, New York, NY 2015
Publications Intern, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY 2015
Education Department Intern and Gallery Guide, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2010-2012
Gallery Manager, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, 2010-2012
Courses Taught
Art 1010, Art History, Art: Its History and Meaning
Art 3066, Art History, Modern Art
Art 1106, Art History, Modern Art
Art 3124, Art History, Islamic Art
Art 12, Art History, Introduction to Art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East
Awards/Fellowships/Grants
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Grant, 2022
Frankenthaler Covid Fellowship, 2022
Early Research Initiative Grant, Graduate Center, 2022
Award for Images of Research Competition, Graduate Center, 2021
Award for Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center, 2021
Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies, 2021
Open Pedagogy Fellowship, Graduate Center, CUNY, Spring 2021
Scaling Instructional Excellence for Student Success Grant, ACUE, August 2020 – 2021
Credential in Effective College Instruction (ACE and ACUE), March 2021
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2019 – 2022
Advanced Certificate in Art History, Stony Brook University, New York, 2016
Publications
Book Chapters
January 2022
New Media Art 2022, CICA Press, Gimpo, Korea
Chapter, “Visual Mobility & Containment: Movement between North Africa and Europe expressed by artists Lydia Ourahmane and Ursula Biemann.”
June 2020
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-10 Crisis, Pluto Press, London
Edited by Marina Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar
Chapter Excerpt, "Turtle Island", "Free them all! Prisoner Solidarity and Abolition in the Pandemic."
Peer-Reviewed
“Review of The Franco-Algerian War Through a Twenty-First Century Lens by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock”, French Politics, Culture and Society
(forthcoming)
H-Net and the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
Review of exhibition Beyond Metaphor: Women and War curated by Kasia Faleçka
(forthcoming)
Conference Presentations
March 5, 2021, Graduate Student Association 31st Annual Symposium, University of Arizona, Art Histories of Activism: Photography, Film, and Ephemera in Response to Crisis
Presenter, "Distinct Images: The Interior Lives of FLN Moudjahidates مجاهدةت"
February 12th, 2021, Photography Network CAA Annual Meeting, Pechakucha Presentation
Pechakucha Presentation, "Interior Lives of FLN Moudjahiates"
January 23rd, 2021
Art Teleported Korea 2021, CICA Museum
Presenter, “Visual Mobility & Containment: Movement between North Africa and Europe expressed by artists Lydia Ourahmane and Ursula Biemann.”
September 2019
Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Presenter, “Migration and the Mediterranean Sea: Visual Mobility and Political Resistance"
May 2017
NYC Anarchist Book Fair
May 13, 2017
Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), University of Hawai`i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai`i
Presenter, “Impersonal Aesthetics: Resisting the Ego in Narcissistic Memory & Spectatorship.”
September 15 – 18, 2016
Moderator, Conference, EcoSangha and Seattle University
On behalf of Rev. Kōshō Itagaki (EcoSangha), Rev. Dr. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth (EcoSangha and Seattle University), and Dr. Brian Shudō Schroeder (EcoSangha and Rochester Insitute of Technology)
October 2012
Seattle University Philosophy Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
Presenter, “Addressing the Problem of Universals: Univocity of Being in Scotus, Dōgen, and Deleuze.”
May 2012
Seattle University Philosophy Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
Chair and Moderator for Heidegger session
April 11, 2011
Pacific University Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Hills, Oregon
Presenter, “The Gap: Unleashing Creativity Through Deleuzian Thought.”
April 12, 2011
Pacific University Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Hills, Oregon
Presenter, “Sustaining a Vision for Feminist Ethical Reasoning: Exploring the Possibility of Universal Moral Theory.”
October 2011
NAWCHE Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Presenter, “Sustaining a Vision for Feminist Ethical Reasoning: Exploring the Possibility of Universal Moral Theory.”
November 2011
Seattle University Philosophy Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Presenter, “Beauvoir and Butler: Making a Case for Ambiguity in Moral Theory.”
Edits/Mentions
June 2020, Public Seminar & Gender & Its Discontents Online Publication, Gender and Sexualities Institute, The New School
Anarchafeminism and Abolition, Anarchafeminist Manifesto 1.0
August 22, 2017, Medium, written by Zila Renfro
August 2, 2017, It's Going Down
Summer 2017, published by James Fuentes Gallery
2017, written by Jason M. Wirth, published by SUNY Press
(mention), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis
May 2016, published by Marlborough Gallery
Exhibition catalogue with essay written by Lilly Wei who discusses how the color blue in Xu Lei’s work demonstrates a serene expansion of reality while the color red signifies a memorial past of war and anxiety.
September 2015, Denis Gardarin Gallery, New York
exhibition press release (edited), Contiguous: 30 Works
Press release and artist biography for Joseph La Piana written in conjunction with a two-part installation in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.
November 2015, Denis Gardarin Gallery for VOLTA NY, New York
exhibition press release (edited), Rudolf Polanszky: On Evolutive Concepts of Transformation
Artist biography for Rudolf Polanszky revised and brought to current for all exhibitions including Denis Gardarin Gallery (New York) and Zeitkunst Niederösterreich (St. Pölten, Dominikanerkirche) curated by Francesco Stocchi. Press release edited for New York exhibition only
Winter 2015, Released/Published 2016, Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery
Exhibition catalog produced by Publications Team at Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Ave in conjunction with Michael Heizer: Altars exhibition at 555 W 24th St.
(Researched and edited artist archives for annotated bibliography and raisonné.)