Awards & Scholarships

Graduate Student stipend and fellowship, Duke University, 2011-2015

Fellow at the Council for European Studies (CES), Duke University, 2013–2017

James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship, Duke University, 2015- 2016

Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2014

Black Family Summer Research Award, Duke University, 2013

Dissertation Research Travel Award, Duke University, 2013

Grant, The Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists, 2001

Conference Presentations

International and National

“A Modern Pax Romana: Christian Universalism, Fascism, and the Neo-Humanist Aesthetic of Waldemar George,” College Art Association (CAA) Los Angeles, February 2018.

“The Look of Neo-Humanism: Fascism and Waldemar George,” AAH&VS Graduate Student Symposium,
Duke University, Durham, NC, January 2018.

“The Limits of Criticism: Art Writing and Propaganda in Interwar France”
Media and Politics in Times of Crisis and Change Conference, London School of Economics, London UK, December 2016.

“The Mistake of Modernism? Surveys of Interwar Art in France, 1930-1950,”
Art and Politics in Europe in the Modern Period, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, July 2016.

“Disciplining Modernism in the Interwar Period: Artistic Pedagogy and Le Dessin” Western Society of French Historians (WSFH)
San Antonio, TX, November 2014.

“Utopic and Dystopic Landscapes in the French Art of the 1930s” (Panel Chair) European Association of Modernists (EAM)
Helsinki, Finland, July 2014.

“Artistic Pedagogy and Politics in Interwar France,”
AAH&VS Graduate Student Symposium, Duke University, Durham NC, February 2014.

“The Speculative Canvas: Anti-Semitic Critiques of the Parisian Art Market Between the Two World Wars,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Durham, NC, February 2012.