research
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
National and Regional Awards
2023: Teiger Foundation Exhibition Research Grant
2017-2018: Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow, The Menil Collection, Houston
2016: Getty Library Research Grant
2016: Kress Travel Award, International Center of Medieval Art
2015-2016: Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Select University and Departmental Awards, UT Austin
2017-2018: Marshall F. Wells Scholarship in the College of Fine Arts
2016: Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate Studies
2015-2016: Mike Hogg Endowed Continuing Fellowship, The Graduate School
2013-2014: Susan Vaughan Foundation Endowed Scholarship in Art and Art History
2013-2014: Dr. Ralph and Marie B. Hanna Centennial Endowed Scholarship in Art
2011-2012: M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in the Fine Arts
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Journals
“History, Theory, and the Risks of Being Wrong,” Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art 6 (2020): 1-13. (PDF download)
“Are We Post-Theoretical? A Conversation,” with Marian Bleeke, Gerald Guest, and Zachary Stewart, Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art 6 (2020): 1-6. (PDF download)
“What could have been and never was: the intellectual context of Clement Greenberg’s ‘Byzantine Parallels,’” Journal of Art Historiography, no. 18 (June 2018): 1-20. (PDF download)
Book Review
Review of Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism by Sam Rose, caareviews (February 10, 2020).
Art Writing and Criticism
“Richard Shiff with Jessamine Batario on Donald Judd,” Brooklyn Rail (October 2020).
“Portage Trails and Language, Writing and Communication,” Brooklyn Rail (March 2020), 69-71. Served as Guest Critic for the issue, responsible for thematic conception, introductory essay, selection of contributing writers, and editing. See also collection of edited essays.
“Pareidolia and Signifying the Insignificant,” Brooklyn Rail (October 2019).
Exhibition Catalog Essay
“Ryan Hawk,” in Trouble (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017).
CONVENINGS AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2022 “The Islands Project,” Lunder Institute for American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Attendees: Richard Blanco, Mariquita “Micki” Davis, Sara Jimenez, Jerome Reyes, Marina Reyes Franco, Edra Soto, and Marina Tyquiengco. Two-day convening to inform the artistic and conceptual development of a future exhibition. | link
2018 “Temporal Transgressions,” Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium, The Menil Collection, Houston. Speakers: Keith Moxey, Amy K. Powell, Karen Overbey. Two day event included public symposium and private seminar for regional scholars and museum professionals. | link
2014 “Annual Speaker Symposium,” Graduate Student Art History Association, The University of Texas at Austin. Speaker: Lauren H. Petersen.
Conference Activity
Papers Presented
2023 “The Process of Imagining an Archipelago,” in the panel, “Atlantic/Pacific: American Art between Ocean Worlds,” sponsored by the Association of Historians of American Art, College Art Association Annual (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY.
2022 “Georges Duthuit and the Modern Counter-Myth of Byzantium,” in the panel, “Studying Byzantine art in the interwar years,” XXIV International Conference of Byzantine Studies, Venice/Padua, Italy.
2021 Discussant in the panel, “(Dis)locating Kababayan: Unstable Communities in Global Philippine Art and Visual Culture,” European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) Annual Conference, Palace University, Olomuoc, Czech Republic (virtual).
2021 “Perpetual Suspense: Docupoetics and Jerome Reyes’s Abeyance,” in the panel, “(Dis)locating Kababayan: Unstable Communities in Filipinx and Filipinx American Art,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY (virtual).
2020 “Simulations at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, in the panel, “Aesthetics of the Spiritual in Contemporary Art,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
2019 “From Academy to Academic: Interrogating History in Francis Alÿs’ Fabiola Project,” in the panel, “Change from Within: Challenging Traditions,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN.
2019 “1884: Colonizing All The Time,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, MO.
2018 “Horizontals, Verticals, and the Risks of Being Wrong,” Vivian L. Smith Symposium, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX.
2016 “Breaking and Making History: Clement Greenberg’s Byzantine Modernism,” Historical Modernisms Symposium, School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London.
2016 “The Mistake: Temporal Distances in Close-Looking,” in the panel, “Distinctive Looking: Style and Surveillance in Art History,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Meeting, Roanoke, VA.
2016 “Between Reality and Transcendence: Byzantine Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” in the panel, “Out of Time and Out of Place: Comparative Approaches in Art History,” College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and Material Collective. (Link to review, pp. 3-5)
2015 “Newman and Abstraction in the Twentieth Century,” panelist in “Barnett Newman: The Late Painting in Context,” at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX.
2013 “Screams, Memes, and Sunday Afternoons: Mitigating the Shocks of the Occupy Movement,” Council of Graduate Art Historians Annual Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2012 “Screams and Sunday Afternoons: The Occupy Art History movement,” Princeton University Graduate Student Conference in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton, NJ.
Conference Panels Chaired
2021 “(Dis)locating Kababayan: Unstable Communities in Filipinx and Filipinx American Art,” session co-chair, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, NY (virtual).
2020 “Art Historiography as Creative Non-Fiction,” session co-chair, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA (virtual).
2017 “From Close-Looking to Close-Feeling: Art History and the Experiential Turn,” session co-chair, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH.
2015 “The Death and Afterlife of Painting,” session co-chair, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2013-2015 Graduate Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Modernism, The University of Texas at Austin