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RESEARCH |
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: The Archaeology of War, Monuments, and Memory : Heritage Ethics, Museology, and Visual Cultures : History of Classics and Antiquarianism |
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EDUCATION |
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: PhD, Classical Archaeology : Stanford University : 2004-2010
: MA, Cultural & Social Anthropology : Stanford University : 2006-2008
: BA magna cum laude, Liberal Studies & Classics : California State University, Los Angeles : 1998-2003 |
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DISTINCTIONS |
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: Getty Research Institute, Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2009-2010
: Visiting Researcher, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, May 2009
: Stanford University Graduate Fellowship 2004-2009
: Stanford Classics Department Mediterranean Travel Grant 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
: Honorable Mention, 2004 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize
: CSULA Dean’s List 1998-2003
: CSULA Liberal Studies Department 2003 Merit Recognition
: Member 2002-2003, Phi Kappa Phi (Top 10% Seniors)
: Student Scholar with 2001 CSULA Visiting Artist Marnie Weber
: 1999 Minority Undergraduate Summer Internship, Getty Conservation Institute |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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: “Ochlos: A Semantic History.” In Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews, ed. Crowds (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)
: “Hoover UK192 and US7824: Exhibition Catalog Entries.” In Jeffrey T. Schnapp, ed. Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster 1789-1989 (Milan: Skira and Stanford: Cantor Arts Center, 2005)
: “A Collector of Voids: Materiality and Semiotics at the Interstices of Signification.” Under Review by Representations
: “Roman Portraits and the Moral Viewer: A Study in Agency.” Under Review by The Journal of Social Archaeology
: Translation of Julio Cortázar, Los Reyes. Under Review by Arion |
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PRESENTATIONS |
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: “Warfare, Elites, and Ideal Behaviors in the Classical Greek and Early Modern Polis.” :: Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Venice, April 9, 2010
: "The Collector as a Moral Identity: Class, Value, & Objects from Pre-Revolutionary France to the Antiquities Collector.” :: AIA/APA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 8, 2010
: “The Memory of Greek Battle: The Traumatic Object Between Individual Experience and Collective Representation.” :: CUNY Classics Graduate Conference, New York, April 26, 2009 :: Harvard Classics Biennial Graduate Conference, Cambridge, April 12, 2008
: “On the Basis for Ethical Judgment of Archaeological Interpretation: Albert Speer at Nuremberg.” :: Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, June 30, 2008
: “Contemplating Beauty, Collecting Ethics: Archaeological Discourses of the Object.” :: Stanford Archaeology Workshop, Stanford, May 8, 2008
: “Prolegomena to a Theory of the Traumatic Object.” :: Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford, May 9, 2007
: “A Phenomenology of Trauma: Being There and Not.” :: Critical Studies in New Media Workshop, Stanford, May 26, 2006
: “Step Into Your Place: Wars, Masses, and the Language of Heroic Ideals.” :: Gallery Talk at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, October 20, 2005
: “The Monument as Memorial: Some Modes of Engagement.” :: Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford, May 5, 2005
: “Bound in War’s Hard Wire: The Language of Love in the Great War Poets.” :: CUNY English Graduate Conference, New York, March 26, 2004
: “The Things They Carried: Mementoes of a Border Crossing.” :: Society for Multi-Ethnic Literatures Annual Meeting, San Antonio, March 13, 2004
: “Achilles & I: Images of the Heroic Ideal in Ancient Greece.” :: Phi Alpha Theta Conference, California State University, San Marcos, April 26, 2003
: “Judas Iscariot, the Jews, and the Last Supper in Renaissance Art.” :: Graduate History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 19, 2002
: “Women & Barbarians: Representing the Amazons in Classical Athens.” :: CSU Humanities Conference, California State University, Los Angeles, May 4, 2002 |
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TEACHING |
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: Ten Things – Science, Technology, & Design, Winter 2009 {link} :: TA to Prof. Michael Shanks
: Intermediate Greek : Readings in Homer’s Iliad, Spring 2007 {syllabus} :: Instructor
: Ten Things - Science, Technology, & Design, Winter 2007 {link} :: TA to Prof. Michael Shanks
: Antiquarian Traditions East and West, Spring 2006 :: RA to Prof. Alain Schnapp
: Archaeology, Anthropology, Photography, Winter 2006 {link} :: TA to Prof. Michael Shanks
: Greek Mythology, Fall 2005 :: TA to Prof. Patrick Hunt
: “Warfare in the Ancient World.” :: Outreach Talk at the Junior Classics League, Menlo School, November 15, 2008 |
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SERVICE |
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: Member, Stanford Metamedia Lab, 2004-present {link}
: Member, Stanford Heritage Ethics Working Group, 2006-present {link}
: “Graduate School for Minorities”, Talk at California State University, Los Angeles
: Member, “An Archaeology of the Museum Storage Room”, Cantor Arts Center, 2007-08
: Coordinator, Critical Studies in New Media, Mellon-funded workshop, 2005-07
: Editor, Stanford Journal of Archaeology 3 (2007) {link}
: Co-organizer, Cultures of Contact: Archaeology, Ethics, and Globalization {link} A conference hosted by the Stanford Archaeology Center, February 17-19, 2006
: Project Member, “Revolutionary Tides”, exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center, 2004-05 {link}
: Project Co-Organizer, Borders, Bodies, Truth, CSULA-NEH Grant Initiative, 2003-04
: Vice President, CSULA History Honor Society 2002-03
: Co-Editor, Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry 29 (2002) |
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LANGUAGES |
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: Bilingual English Spanish, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German (reading) |
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FIELDWORK |
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: 2009-present: Stanford/Durham Excavation at Hadrian’s Wall, Binchester
: 2005-present: Museum Research at the Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: 2002-present: Fieldwork with Colombian emigrants in Los Angeles
: 2009: Museum Research in Athens, Naples, Rome
: 2008: Museum Research in London, Cambridge, Rome, New York, Boston, Paris
: 2007: Museum Research in London, Munich, Athens, Paris
: 2006: Museum Research in London, Rome, Berlin
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