Image: Tim Correira Photography
Hello! I’m a curator, writer, and art historian. I’ve recently held positions at the Harvard Art Museums, Tufts University, the Stonewall National Museums and Archives, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I received my Ph.D. from MIT.
With Noam Parness, I’m the co-curator of Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant, a traveling exhibition that originated at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in fall 2023. My exhibition As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, organized in partnership with Laurel V. McLaughlin, was on view at Tufts University Art Galleries in spring 2024. With Soyoung Lee, I also co-curated Future Minded: New Works in the Collection at the Harvard Art Museums in spring 2024.
My freelance essays and reviews have appeared in many outlets, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and throughout the art press. A regular contributor to academic journals and volumes, I am completing a book about global AIDS cultural activism.
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