About me

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, where I have taught since 2017. Previously, I was a Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Assistant Professor) in art history at the Institute of Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich. I trained as an art historian and received my Ph.D. from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University.

My research and teaching synthesizes methods from the histories of art and architecture and the history of knowledge to interrogate how the research practices of art, architecture, and science were formed and mediated in tandem across the early modern world, under European colonialism. In examining the relationships between artistic, architectural, and scientific research tactics in Europe and the territories it colonized, I shed light on origins of contemporary global challenges, such as the climate crisis, global inequality, and fraught public trust in empirical science.

My research has been supported by the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Society of Architectural Historians, and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.