I’m a scholar of modern and contemporary art of the Americas who specializes in queer and hemispheric forms of knowledge, particularly in makers’ relationships with their materials. My work borrows from environmental art history, Indigenous studies, feminism, and queer theory to articulate the ways in which ideas emerge from outside Western aesthetic canons, including alternative histories of scientific visualization. My first book, Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America (Yale, 2024), charts the many connections between drawing, design, and ecology in American studio practice in the long 1960s. The book was shortlisted for the 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Research in American Art.
My current book project, Devour Everything: Feminist Art After Agriculture, examines the role of food and nourishment in queer, Indigenous-identified, and Latinx communities since the United Farm Workers movement.
I work as an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I direct Art, Data, and Environment/s (ADE/s), an interdisciplinary consortium that uses art and design history to consider colonial histories of water use and resource extraction.