Funding Source: Getty Research Institute – My project uses the visual culture of hunting to highlight the ways that mobility and migration shaped art and architecture during the formative decades when Muslims first became a major imperial power in the … Continue reading The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting, Migration, and Art in the Umayyad Empire

Funding Source: Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society and NEH Summer Stipend – This book project explores the many famines that devastated South Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century and how photographs aided in the constitution of … Continue reading Empire of Hunger: Representing Famine, Land, and Labor in Colonial India

Funding Source: American Philosophical Society/British Academy Fellowship (2014); Friends of the Princeton University Library ( 2014); Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2018); Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (2018) – In the late nineteenth century regular and affordable … Continue reading At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Funding Source: Richard D. Cohen Fellowship. W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute. Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Harvard University. 2016-17. Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. 2016-2017 – In Rhythms of Grease, Grime, Glass, and Glitter: The Body … Continue reading Rhythms of Grease, Grime, Glass, and Glitter: The Body in Contemporary Black Art

Funding Source: Beinecke Library, Yale University; Arcus Foundation – Through a series of case studies, my book-in-progress examines the ways in which “unconventional” clients – men and women who stood apart from social norms by virtue of their sexuality or … Continue reading Poker Faces/Private Spaces: Houses for Unconventional Clients