related studies

Through my research, I have developed a strong interest in the interdisciplinary field of plant humanities and a desire to study and interpret historic sites and historical landscapes beyond the completion of my dissertation. To complement my academic background in art and architectural history and museum studies, I have sought professional development opportunities and continuing education in garden and landscape studies, completing the offerings below.

Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Summer Program: Landscape History and Historiography, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, May–June 2022

Landscape Design History, a Horticulture Certificate Program course, New York Botanical Garden, September–November 2024


In connection with my research, I am studying my family’s history and reflecting on the pressures of Americanization and white racial socialization faced by my ancestors who immigrated to the United States in the 1860s–1900s. This work asks, in what ways might they have resisted these processes, and in what ways were they complicit in the projects of whiteness and settler colonialism? Through family history, genealogy, and courses offered outside of academia, I have sought to understand the complexities of their experiences and my positionality as an individual, and as a scholar.

(Please feel welcome to contact me if you are interested in learning more—I am always glad to resource-share.)

As part of this work, I also recently edited a collection of my grandmother’s life stories (b. 1933).