Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitlePhD Candidate

AffiliationGraduate

Primary Office LocationKresge College Academic Building

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Biography, Education and Training

My current research focuses on the visual culture (contemporary art, architecture & mass media) of the Arctic, particularly Svalbard Archipelago, and its geopolitical implications for global collective memory.

I have designed, taught, and guest-lectured for, courses spanning the visual culture of memory, technologies of respresentation, activist art, the history of photography, citical landscapes of the atlantic world, the politics of asian american visual culture, the holocaust in a digital world, and place-writing.

I am currently a researcher for An Aesthetics of Resilience, a collaborative art-science climate justice intiative through UCSC's Institute of Arts & Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab.