Photograph by Allen Frame, 2024; courtesy of the artist.
I’m an art historian, curator, and critic. I’m currently the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. With Noam Parness, I’m the co-curator of Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant, which is on view at Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through April 21. My exhibition, As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, curated in partnership with Laurel V. McLaughlin, accompanies the Walker survey during its presentation at TUAG.
My writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Baffler, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Review, frieze, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. For my essay “Against Our Vanishing,” published in The Baffler in 2021, I received the “Writing Photography. DGPh Award for Innovative Publication” from the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie in 2023.
After receiving my Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture from MIT in 2019, I worked at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University’s Translating Race Lab and the Center for the Humanities. I’m completing a book about global AIDS cultural activism.
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