Colonization, empire, Indigenous culture, material culture, textiles, religion, gender, Catholicism, the Americas, the Andes, Mesoamerica, archaeology, visual culture, anthropology, Marian imagery
“BOXED IN: The Connection Between Wari Mortuary Complexes and Inka Textiles.” SEQUITUR 7, no. 1 (January 14, 2021). http://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2021/01/14/boxed-in-the-connection-between-wari-mortuary-complexes-and-inka-textiles/.
"Woman Inherits the Earth: Mexica Origins and Pre-Hispanic Mexican Religion" presented in HAVC 191B: The Virgin of Guadalupe: Images and Symbolism in Spain, Mexico, and the United States, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 2020
"A Grid of Control: A Comparison of Andean Empires" presented at the Art History Graduate Student Symposium at Rutgers University, April 2020
"Dressed for Success: Wari Textiles as Emblems of Power" guest lecture for HAVC 160B: Indigenous Americas Before 1550: The Andes, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 2019
"Deliberate Confusion: Abstraction as Iconoclasm" presented at the Annual Symposium for Latin American Art through the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art in Manhattan, New York, April 2019
"Cracking the Code: Andean Textiles as Markers for Indigenous Identity" presented at the Latin Americanist Graduate Organization Conference at Tulane University, February 2019
Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, Research Center for the Americas, 2020
Archaeological Research Center Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019
Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017
High Honors, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley, 2016