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

Experience

  • • Peer Reviewer, Athanor, vol. XLI, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Summer-Fall 2024

    • Historians of Puerto Rico Working Group, Hybrid/ Remote, Rutgers-New Brunswick, School of Arts and Sciences, 2024

    • 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

  • • Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, Art, Architecture & Artistic Vision, Summer Term B 2025

    • Instructor of Record, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, History of Art and Criticism II, Spring 2025

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Sarah Buck, Graded Art Appreciation, Summer Term B. 2024

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Sarah Buck, Graded Art Appreciation, Jan- May. 2024

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Sarah Buck, Graded Art Appreciation, Aug- Dec. 2023

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Kyle Killan, Taught Gothic Architecture, Jan- May. 2023

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Paul Niell, Taught Spanish Colonialism Art and Architecture: Hapsburgs Period, Aug.- Dec. 2022

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Paul Niell, Taught Caribbean Architecture and Cultural Landscapes, Aug.- Dec. 2021

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Preston McLane, Taught Communications for Arts & Design, Aug.-May 2020

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Paul Niell, Taught Spanish Colonialism Art and Architecture: The Bourbon Period, Jan.- Apr. 2020

    • Teaching Assistant, Florida State University (FSU), Art History Department, worked under Dr. Richard Emmerson, Taught Apocalypse: The End of the World in the Arts, Aug.-Dec. 2019

  • “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.

    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

  • Beard Travel Award 2025

    Mason Research Award 2024

    Beard Travel Award 2024

    Winbury Writing Award 2024

    Leslie N. Wilson-Delores Auzenne Assistantship Fellow 2019–2021

    AfroJuventudes Anti-Racist Fellow 2019–2020

Publications

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August 2023