I am a New York–based historian of art and visual culture specializing in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. My work investigates how cultural production operated under authoritarian and totalitarian rule, particularly in the so-called Soviet satellite states during the decades of the early Cold War. My doctoral dissertation offered the first scholarly study of state-sponsored exhibitions in Stalinist Poland (1945–1956) as provisional instruments of political pedagogy and as tools of statecraft amid the country’s transition into a one-party totalitarian state. I am currently expanding this project to integrate new primary sources from Polish state archives and focus more closely on the display and reception of the Soviet-imposed doctrine of Socialist Realism.

I have written and presented on the Russian avant-gardes; interwar art in Central and Eastern Europe; Socialist Realism and state-directed cultural production across the former Eastern Bloc; realisms as both historical and morphological category in Europe and the U.S.; and the transnational circulation of art between East and West during the Cold War. Most recently, I published an essay on Tadeusz Kantor's late painting practice and its relationship to Western capitalism in the edited scholarly volume The 1982 Cultural Exchange Between Łódź and Los Angeles (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2024).

In addition to my academic research, I have over ten years of teaching experience in higher education and am currently an Adjunct Instructor at Fordham University. I have previously served as a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York–BMCC. I hold a Ph.D. in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. in the history of art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a B.A. in art history and German (with dept. honors) from Fordham University.