
Academic History
- Ph.D., Art History, Yale University
- M.A., Art History, Carleton University
- B.A., Art History, English Literature, University of British Columbia
Academic Focus
British art; landscape; photography; visual and material histories of empire; Pacific art
Courses Taught
- Core I: Histories of the Present
- Core III: Panoramania!
- Australia / Aotearoa New Zealand Art Histories
- Art & the British Empire
- Art of the Pacific Voyage
- History of Photography
- Photography and the Archive
Selected Research and Publications
- 鈥淚mpressions in Copper: Diplomatic Dispatches in the Engravings of George Vancouver鈥檚 A Voyage of Discovery,鈥 in Arctic Fever: Image and Narrative in North Circumpolar Voyaging in the Long 19th Century. ed. Mark Cheetham and Isabelle Gapp. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, forthcoming.
- 鈥淐asting Shadows: Speculative Impressions of a Captain Cook Monument,鈥 The Australian Object: Unsettling Art Histories. ed. Georgina Cole, Molly Duggins and Mark De-Vitis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming.
- 鈥淪horeline and Paper鈥檚 Edge: Nuu-chah-nulth Emissaries in the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Centuries.鈥 Eighteenth-Century Studies 56:2 (January 2023). 285-312.
- Book Review: 鈥淓mpire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland.鈥 Journal of Pacific History 57:1 (2022).
- 鈥淥ur Transporting Antipodes鈥: Panoramic Views of Australia and the Works of Augustus Earle,鈥 in On the Viewing Platform: the Panorama Between Canvas and Screen, ed. Tim Barringer, Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 120-140.
- Co-authored with Gabrielle Moser, "," in "The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis", British Art Studies, Issue 18.
- Co-authored with Kailani Polzak, 鈥,鈥 Journal18 (April 2020).
- Co-authored with Kaitlin McCormick and Gerald McMaster, 鈥淭he Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other.鈥 Editors' Introduction to ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples鈥 Cultures 2:3 鈥(2018),鈥 125-140 (Special Issue on The Entangled Gaze, co-edited with Gerald McMaster).
- 鈥,鈥 British Art Studies 10 (2018)
- 鈥淔amilial Looking: Chinese Canadian Vernacular Photography of the Exclusion Period (1923鈥1967),鈥 Visual Studies 32:2 (2017)鈥, 111-123.
- "," SHIFT / Journal of Visual and Material Culture 1 (2008)
Awards and Honors
- Getty ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, 2023-2024
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2018-19
- Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University, 2018
- Frances Blanshard Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 2018
- Junior Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2017
- Predoctoral Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (Annual Scholar Theme: 鈥淎rt and Anthropology鈥), 2016鈥17
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 2011-2015