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, HKU
09/2020 – 10/2022: Chief Examiner of American Studies, HKU
01/2022 – present: Reviewer (on a need basis), Ethical Vetting of Research Projects involving Artefacts, Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC), HKU
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
2025 – 2026
Tyson Scholars of American Art Fellow, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (awarded for 2024–2025, deferred to 2025–2026).
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: hide text "Aesthetic Incongruity," in Humor in Global Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024)]
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