Professional Experience
2022-present
Executive Assistant (remote)
Snøhetta
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Backbone support for NYC studio of internationally renowned architecture and landscape architecture firm Snøhetta
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Attributions: Proactive, positive, detail-oriented, diligent, trustworthy, timely, resourceful, adaptable, with problem-solving and prioritization skills
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Communication: Professional correspondence and planning with international clientele, clear internal coordination of daily operations
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Time management: Ability to multitask and track multiple information streams simultaneously, complex calendar management for multiple time zones
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Financial: Complete executive expense reports and time sheets
2020-2022
Faculty
University of Rochester
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Teaching: digital media studies, gender studies, photography
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Created & taught course Robot Love: Decoding Gender & Race in Technology
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Project management: all aspects of course planning and implementation
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Organized digital media studies professional development speaker series
2020
Collections Management Assistant
George Eastman Museum
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Determined film preservation priorities by inspecting 6,000 nitrate film canisters on an 8-week deadline for a grant-funded audit
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Database management: responsible for detailed cross-referencing and correcting location and accession number discrepancies
2018-2020
Writer & Researcher
George Eastman Museum
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Graduate fellowship in the Moving Image Department
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Created public-facing texts for the Dryden Theatre
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Coordinated volunteers and conducted catalog research for film festival
2015-2019
Studio Art Assistant
Joyce Neimanas
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Managed archives and records
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Professional proposal and correspondence writing
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Photoshop, scanning, prepared files for lab printing
2013-2018
Teaching Assistant
University of Rochester
Courses in writing, digital media studies, film studies, digital art, and video art
2012-2014
Staff Writer
ArtSlant
Wrote exhibition reviews and conducted artist interviews for online publication
2011-2012
Collections Writer
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Fellowship to research the museum collections and write public-facing narratives for online publication
Core Competencies
Publication
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Chapter author: The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media (Routledge, 2022) and Theorizing Visual Studies anthology (Routledge, 2012)
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Published essays: Afterimage 45:5 (Univ. of California Press, 2018), Dialectic V (Univ. of Utah, 2017), and Dilettante Vol. 2 (Summer Forum for Inquiry + Exchange, 2016)
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Editorial experience: Co-edited Theorizing Visual Studies anthology (Routledge, 2012) and InVisible Culture online journal editorial board member (2014-2016)
Public Speaking
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Presenter: Presented papers at 9 conferences (2009–2020)
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Instructor of record: Taught lecture- and discussion-based classes for 6 years combined (2009–2013 & 2020–2022)
Event Organization
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Curatorial experience: curated and co-curated three group art exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2012)
- Conference planning: Lead organizer for THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Rochester, a collaboration among the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Memorial Art Gallery (2018)
Education
2023
University of Rochester
2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
PhD Visual & Cultural Studies
Dissertation: "Study Nature, Not Books: A Genealogy of Photography on the Mind and Brain"
MA Visual & Critical Studies
Thesis: "Beholding Bodies & Embodied Beholders in Annette Messager's Mes voeux"
BFA
Studio arts degree with coursework in photography, drawing, video art, and art history, theory & criticism