PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS

ESSAYS AND ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

"Indexing Design and the Fiction of Placelessness," essay for from an unmarked point in the horizon: a rural studies miscellany,  supplement to Across Common Grounds: Contemporary Art Outside the Center, an exhibition at Bates College Museum of Art, October, 2024 - March, 2025. 

Review of Megan A. Smetzer Painful Beauty for H-Net Material Culture

"Haudenosaunee Craft at the Rochester Municipal Museum," Decorative Arts Trust Bulletin, November 2023.

Introduction and co-editor with Mary McNeil, “Art History and the Local,” In the Round in Panorama: Journal of the Art Historians of American Art 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022).

Various entries in American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, vol. 2, edited by Beatrice B. Garvan and David L. Barquist, published by Yale University Press (forthcoming)

"Iñupiaq Pipe," Otsego Alumni Review, Fenimore Art Museum vol. 7, 2019.

“Eighteenth-Century Powder Horns and the Conservation of Historic Americana,” in Art Conservator, 2016.

MAGAZINES AND GENERAL AUDIENCE

"A Crafty Show About State Fairs Stares Down the White House," exhibition review of State Fairs: Growing American Craft at the Renwick Gallery, for Art in America, December 2025.

"The Newfound Fervor for Indigenous Art Masks Thorny Questions," exhibition review of Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always at the Zimmerli Art Museum, for Art in America, April 2025.

Exhibition review of “Jeremy Frey: Woven” for First American Art Magazine, Summer 2024

Exhibition review of "Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art 1940s-1970s" for First American Art Magazine, Fall 2023

Janis Stemmermann, Cut to Length, 2023

Janis Stemmermann and Louise Eastman, Players Constitute the Pieces, 2023

A throwback (for fun): "Jayson Musson Talks His New Comic-Inspired Exhibition at Salon94 and the End of Hennessy Youngman" for Complex, 2014.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

(forthcoming June 2025) Title TBD, Invited Speaker for "US Art History and the Question of Settler-Colonialism" workshop, organized by Luke Naessens, Courtauld Institute of Art

"'New Things in Old Ways': Anthropology and Iteration in the Seneca Arts Project (1935-1941)," Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art

"Localized Abstraction: Fred Kabotie, Formalist Pedagogy, and Visual Ethics at Hopitutskwa," CAA Annual Conference, February 2025

Invited speaker, "Documented Threads: The Work of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood" at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, October 2022

"'Inventing' Hopi Silver at the Museum of Northern Arizona," CAA Annual Conference, March 2022

"Migratory Motifs and the Repatriation of Images in Hopi Visual Culture," Restless Objects and Collections, AAANZ Art History Postgraduate and Early Career Research Intensive, University of Sydney, December 2021

“Tracing Empire: Drawing, Design, and Colonial Knowledge in H.R. Mallinson & Co.’s ‘American Indian Series,’” College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2020

“Horn in the USA: Powder Horns and the Conservation of Historic Americana,” Judith M. Lenett Memorial Lecture, Clark Art Institute, May 2016