I am a PhD candidate (the Bard Graduate Center) researching plus-size fashion of the 19th century. 

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My academic background is in history, museum studies, and fashion and textiles, and in practice I combine those fields with sewing knowledge gained through reproducing historical European and American clothing.

 

While I concentrate on teaching, research, and writing, I have a diverse skill set in museum interpretation, exhibition development, and curation. In the past, I have also worked in textile conservation and collections management.

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I am currently finishing my dissertation while teaching a graduate class at the BGC and several undergraduate classes at the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and I look forward to further teaching and research opportunities.

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Exhibitions & catalogs to which I have contributed include:

Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film (BGC, September 18, 2026–January 3, 2027)

Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection (New-York Historical Society, September 27, 2024–June 22, 2025)
Women’s Work (N-YHS, July 21, 2023–August 25, 2024)

Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen (BGC, 2022–2023) 

The Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties (The Museum at FIT, 2021)

Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries (John Hay Library, 2019)

Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, 2017–2022).