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; state-directed cultural production across the former Eastern Bloc; realisms 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 about the touring exhibitions program ("wystawy objazdowe") in Poland (1947-1949) in Curator: The Museum Journal, which is the first scholarly study of this state-funded exhibition initiative.

I am an Adjunct Instructor at Fordham University and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art. I hold a Ph.D. from the City University of New York--Graduate Center, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a B.A. from Fordham University.