I am an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the material culture of the Roman Empire, with a focus on how visual media shaped memory, identity, and political authority. My research examines imperial portraiture as an active force in the construction of power, exploring how images operated not only as representations but as tools that structured perception, elicited emotional response, and embedded imperial presence within the cultural imagination.

I completed my PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University in 2025. My dissertation, "What’s in a Face? Reframing the Expressive Portraiture of Third-Century Roman Emperors," offers the first sustained study of the highly expressive style that emerged in this period. Drawing on art history, archaeology, ancient philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, I argue that intensified facial features and dynamic carving techniques functioned as mnemonic strategies designed to shape how viewers saw, felt, and remembered the emperor. This work contributes to broader questions about the relationship between visual form, perception, and ideology in the ancient world.

My research is interdisciplinary and methodologically integrative. I bring together close visual analysis, archaeological context, and theories of vision and memory to investigate how Roman images operated across different environments and audiences. More broadly, I am interested in how ancient societies constructed and sustained memory through material culture, and how these practices resonate with ongoing debates about memory, identity, and representation today.

My academic work is complemented by extensive experience in museums and field archaeology. I have contributed to exhibitions and collections research at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries, and the Princeton University Art Museum. As the Stavros Niarchos Fellow in Classical Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I worked on the reinstallation of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine galleries, with a particular focus on Roman portraiture. I have also participated in archaeological projects across the Mediterranean, including excavations in Italy, Greece, Israel, and Jordan, as well as finds processing and ceramics analysis in laboratory settings.

Across my research, teaching, and curatorial work, I am committed to bridging scholarly inquiry and public engagement. I approach the study of the ancient world as both an intellectual and experiential endeavor, one that invites critical reflection on how the past is constructed, interpreted, and made meaningful in the present.