I study media history and visual culture throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. Across these geographies, I investigate the cross-cultural circulation of images, objects, and ideas, considering how modes of artistic exchange open alternate frameworks of meaning and reception for modern technologies of vision. Working within a networked history of art\u2014one that recognizes the borders of empire and nation as porous\u2014my research and teaching emphasize photography\u2019s itinerant nature and explore the spaces where images connect continents, countries, and cultures.<\/p>\n
At Bates, my classes center around questions of vision: who is seeing and who is being seen? Working across diverse lens-based media in the modern period, my teaching emphasizes the cultural contingency of visual representation, and the mutable meaning of material objects within changing political contexts. By examining the transnational circulation of image technologies, my courses work to decenter dominant narratives and artistic origin stories from Europe and the United States. Instead, they constellate histories of image-making that are international, inclusive, and collaborative.<\/p>\n
My monograph-in-progress, <\/span>Portrait Atlas: The Migration of Nineteenth-century Ottoman Photographs<\/span><\/i>, demonstrates the ways in which photographs from the Islamic world cross-pollinate trans-Atlantic geographies, unsettling a place-bound approach to portraiture. I am the co-author, with Sophie Junge, of <\/span>Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe<\/span><\/i> (Routledge, 2022). My research has been published in <\/span>Trans-Asia Photography<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Ars Orientalis<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Reading Objects in the Contact-Zone<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>and <\/span>Fotogeschichte<\/span><\/i>. I present regularly at international forums, and most recently, spoke at the College Art Association Annual Conference (2024), Other Histories of Photography Symposium at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia (2023), University of North Carolina, Greensboro, School of Art (2023), University of Zurich (2022), Ottoman Cultural Mobilities Workshop at the British Institute & Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2021), Expanding Islamic Art History Conference at the University of Vienna (2021) and Silver Atlantic Conference in Paris (2021<\/span>)<\/span>.<\/span> My work has been supported by <\/span>the Terra Foundation for American Art, Historians of Islamic Art, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and the Getty Research Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n COURSES TAUGHT:<\/strong><\/p>\n AVCS25 \u2013 Contemporary Global Photographies<\/p>\n AVC223 \u2013 Outside the Frame: A Global History of Photography<\/p>\n AVC228 \u2013 Connecting Image Cultures: Artistic Exchange Between the Islamic and European Worlds<\/p>\n AVC267 \u2013 From Silhouette to Selfie: Portraiture as a Medium<\/p>\n AVC276\/AMST276 \u2013 True or False: Documentary Photography<\/p>\n AVC278\/ANTH278 \u2013 At the Cross-Roads: Art & Migration<\/p>\n AVC233\/AMST233 \u2013 Decolonizing the Museum<\/p>\n AVC321\/GSS321 \u2013 Representations of Gender, Labor, and Craft in the Mediterranean<\/p>\n AVC329\/AMST329 \u2013 Politics of Place: Global Perspectives on American Art<\/p>\n AVC371\/ENVR371 \u2013 Landscape and Power<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n 2017 Ph.D. Boston University, History of Art and Architecture<\/p>\n 2012 M.A. Boston University, History of Art and Architecture<\/p>\n 2004 B.A. Tufts University, History of Art and Architecture and English<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd the Landscape Grows Back: <\/span>Photographic Futurity in the work of Gohar Dashti<\/span>,\u201d in \u201cGlobal Archives of Empire and Photographic Futurity\u201d special issue of <\/span>Photography & Culture, <\/span><\/i>ed. by Erin Hyde Nolan and Emily Voelker [forthcoming]<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Ottoman Time-scapes: Photo-collage as Diplomacy,\u201d in <\/span>Ottoman\u00a0Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display<\/span><\/i>, ed. by <\/span>Belgin Turan Ozkaya and Sibel Zandi-Sayek <\/span>(De Gruyter, 2025) <\/span>[forthcoming]<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Maternal Orientalism: Women\u2019s Work and the Photographs of Jessie Tarbox Beals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition<\/span>,\u201d co-authored with Emily Voelker in <\/span>Art and Empire: Imperialism and Aesthetic Practices, 1865-1945<\/span><\/i>, ed. by Emily Burns and Alice Price (Routledge, 2025) [forthcoming]<\/span><\/p>\n Survey Practice and Landscape Photography Across the Globe co-edited by Sophie Junge (London: Routledge, November 2022).<\/p>\n \u201cTransatlantic Collaborations in the Colonial Archive: Todd Webb\u2019s 1958 UN Commission,\u201d co-authored with Aim\u00e9e Bessire and Halfan Hashim Magani in Fotogeschichte<\/em>, special issue on \u201cPhotography and Colonialism,\u201d edited by Sophie Junge, January 2022.<\/p>\n Outside of the Frame: Todd Webb\u2019s 1958 Photographs of Africa for the United Nations co-edited with Aim\u00e9e Bessire (London: Thames & Hudson, 2021).<\/p>\n \u201cReading Native American Portraits in Ottoman: A Networked Analysis of Photographs in the Abd\u00fclhamid II Collection\u201d co-authored with Emily Voelker on Transatlantic Cultures Digital Platform, https:\/\/tracs-edition.univ-lr.fr\/app\/en\/index 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