2003-2007: Middlebury College, BA in History of Art and Architecture

2007-2014: University of California, Berkeley, MA and Ph.D. in History of Art  Dissertation: “Photography’s Undoing: Aleksandr Rodchenko and the White Sea-Baltic Canal”

2014-2019: Assistant Professor in Department of Art History and Department of Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine

2018: Emerging Scholar Prize (for “Elements of Photography”), The Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture

2019-2020: Assistant Professor in History of Art, UC Berkeley

Since 2020, Associate Professor in History of Art, UC Berkeley

2022 Summer: Visiting Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Since 2024: Faculty Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley

2025 Spring: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Fellow

2025 Fall: Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley

-  Art and architecture of the Soviet Union and twentieth-century Europe 
-  Environmental and energy humanities 
- Politics of modernism, realism, and figuration from 1900 to the Cold War
- Histories and theories of photography

Monographs

Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022).

• Best First Book Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European 

Languages (AATSEEL), 2024.

• First Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association, 2023.

• Graham Foundation Publication and Presentation Grant, 2020.

Journal Articles

• “‘Down with the Skyscrapers of Historical Backwardness’, or the Paradoxes of the Disurbanist Revolution,” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 2 (February 2025) https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0313.
• “‘No Longer an Image, Not Yet a Concept’: Montage and the Failure to Cohere in Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Gulag Photoessay,” Art History 42 (April 2019): 332–361.
• “Elements of Photography: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and the Reforging of Nature,” Representations 142 (Spring 2018): 56–90.

Book Chapters

• “Beskonechnoe seichas: Aleksandr Rodchenko i fotosnimok”/“‘Disclosure of All Connections’: Rodchenko’s Portrait for the New Age,” Mirovaia khudozhestvennaia kul’tura XXI veka: Predmetno-prostranstvennaia sreda i problemy kul’turnoi identichnosti, Tom II (Moscow: MGKhPA im. S.G. Stroganova, RAKh, MArKhI, 2022), 187–196.
• “A Visual History of the Gulag: Nine Theses,” in The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison, ed. Michael David-Fox (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), 162–169.
• Russian translation, “Vizual’naia istoriia GULAGa: Deviat’ tezisov,” in Fenomen Gulaga: Interpretatsii, sravneniia, istoricheskii kontekst, ed. Michael David-Fox (Boston/Saint-Petersburg: Academic Studies Press, 2021), 318–330.
• Expanded and revised version of “Picturing the Gulag,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16 (Summer 2015): 476–478.
• “‘You Don’t Even Represent Us’: Picturing the Moscow Protests,” Either/And (2012), online. Reprinted in Photography Reframed, eds. Benedict Burbridge and Annabella Pollen (IB Tauris: 2018), 205–214.