CV
Current Appointment
2019 – Present
Assistant Professor, American Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
08/2020 – 01/2022: "Acting" Programme Director of American Studies
09/2020 – Present: Chief Examiner of American Studies
Education
2016
PhD Art History, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
"Finish Fetish: Art, Artists, and Alter Egos in Los Angeles of the 1960s," PhD Dissertation also on WorldCat
Committee: Anna Chave, Claire Bishop, David Joselit, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Alexandra Schwartz
Previous Appointments
2018 – 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong (3-year position, 2018–2021; left after 1 year for an Assistant Professorship)
2016 – 2018
Doheny Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Huntington–University of Southern California (USC) History Department, Institute on California and the West
2015 – 2016
Curatorial Fellow, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. ReadingGroupRole-PlayingMIT[SYM] Reading Group: Role-Playing. ReadingGroupBetweenTrustandDeceitMIT[SYM] Reading Group: Between Trust and Deceit. Curatorial Tour: Tala Madani. IAP Workshop, Beyond the "Like": Collecting and Contemporary Art
2014 – 2015
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Fellowships & Grants
Extramural
2021 – 2022
Association for Art History, Publication (Image) Grant [for: "Boggs Bills: Contrast Agents," Crime, Media, Culture (2023), forthcoming]
2020 – 2021
Early Career Scheme (ECS) Grant, Research Grants Council (RGC), HK (awarded 06/2020; grant period 01/2021–12/2023). hide text Project description.
2019 – 2020
Association for Art History, Publication (Image) Grant [for: hide text "Financial True Crime," Art History, 2021]
2018 – 2019
2017 – 2018
Kennan Institute, The Wilson Center, Washington, DC, Short-Term Grant [for: "Aesthetic Incongruity," in Humor in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2022/23), forthcoming]
Society for the Preservation of American Modernists (SPAM), Publication (Image) Grant [for: hide text "Uncivil Obedience," American Art, 2020]
2016 – 2017
2015 – 2016
2014 – 2015
New York University (NYU) Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA), "The Artist’s Book: Materials and Processes"
2013 – 2014
IIE Fulbright to Azerbaijan (awarded; could not accept due to funding delays caused by the 2013 budget sequestration)
2012 – 2013
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship