I am a New York–based historian of art and visual culture specializing in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. My work focuses primarily on the relationship between cultural production and politics in the former Soviet satellite states, particularly Poland, during the early decades of the 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 from the CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a B.A. from Fordham University.