EDUCATION
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (FSU). Ph.D., Art History.
May 2027
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (FSU). M. A., Art History.
May 2021
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA (GSU). BA, Art History. Cum Laude. May 2019
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
- Mason Research Award 2024
- Beard Travel Award 2024/2025
- Winbury Writing Award 2024
- Leslie N. Wilson-Delores Auzenne Assistantship Fellow 2019–2021
- AfroJuventudes Anti-Racist Fellow 2019–2020
ART EXHIBITIONS
Place-Within: Diasporic Belonging and Relational Memory, William Johnston Gallery, Florida State University, January–February 2026 (Co-Curator).
Corrientes de deriva litoral, Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (107 Suffolk St. New York, NY)
Corrientes de deriva litoral, Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (107 Suffolk St. New York, NY)
PUBLICATIONS
“Las Nietas de Nonó: Ilustraciones de la Mecánica and Spaces of Refusal,” in Colonial Racial Capitalism, edited by Kency Cornejo. USLAF, X as Intersection: Writing on Latinx Art (Executive Editor). (Fall 2026.)
“The Basse—a Ghost Engine: Tevin Lewis and the Mythic Systems of Becoming” in Burnaway Magazine. (Summer 2025)
“Boundaries of Belonging: Reclaiming Place through Memory and Architecture” in Center for Puerto Rican Studies - Writings on Diasporican Visual Artists. (Spring 2025)
“Echoes of Identity: Afro-Puerto Rican Women and the Creole House” in Intervenxions: the Latinx Project (Winter 2023
“Recolectando la Semilla: The Creole House and the Negotiation of Memory, Space, and Race in Ponce, Puerto Rico” in Ampersand: An American Studies Journal (Summer 2023)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught History and Criticism of Art, Spring 2026 – Section 001
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught History and Criticism of Art, Spring 2026 – Section 002
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught History and Criticism of Art, Fall 2025 – Section 001
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught History and Criticism of Art, Fall 2025 – Section 003
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught Art Appreciation, Summer 2025
- Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Taught History and Criticism of Art, Spring 2025
- Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Tenley Bick, assisted Intro to Modern and Contemporary Art, Fall 2024
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Guest Lecturer, Historia del Muralismo Puertorriqueño, Mueso de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2025
- Peer Reviewer, Athanor, vol. XLI, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Summer-Fall 2024/2025
- Historians of Puerto Rico Working Group, Hybrid/Remote, Rutgers-New Brunswick, School of Arts and Sciences, 2024 - Present
- Graduate Assistant for the Re-development of the Museum and Cultural Heritage Program, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Summer 2024
- Founder and Coordinator, Art History Connections Mentorship Program, 2021
- Member of the Anti-Racist and Equality Committee, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, 2021
CONFERENCES
“Race, Place, and Identity: Colonial Narratives in Puerto Rican Street Art.” CAA 114th Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2026.
“Pressing Memory, Ironing Histories: Black Women’s Labor and Refusal in Damaris Cruz’s Las Planchadoras (2014).” Presented at The Latinx Project’s Graduate Student Working Group Symposium: Perspectives on Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Geography, New York University, New York City, United States. March 2025
“Ancestral Landscapes Labs: Ancestral Landscapes Lab (ALL): Tracing Afro Puerto Rican Experiences through Memory and Place.” Presented at the Homo Sargassum International Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University, Florida, United States. March 2025.
“Resurgence of Puerto Rican Creole Architecture: Reviving Memories and Redefining Identities with Casa Borges,” Presented at the 2024 SESAH – Conference. In panel: Vernacular Designs and Places. Marietta, United States. October 2024
“Voices in Color: Damaris Cruz, Street Art, and the Reclamation of Afro-Puerto Rican Identity,” Presented at the 2024 AAH – Conference. In panel: Shifting Grounds: Landscape and Cultural Practice in Latin America. Bristol, United Kingdom. April 2024