Education
Ph.D. Emory University, Atlanta, GA. 2020
Art History, Dissertation Titled: Creation of Ritual Space in the Non-Royal Tombs of Amarna
M.A. Leiden University, Leiden, NL 2011
Ancient Egyptian Language and Culture
B.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2007
College Scholars: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship 2020 - 2022
Fellowships
Emory College Online Teaching Strategies (ECOTS) Fellow Summer 2020
Mellon Interventions Project Public Scholarship Teaching Fellowship Fall 2019-Spring 2020
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship Spring-Summer 2019
Andrew W. Mellon Teaching and Training Fellowship Summer 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship, Michael C. Carlos Museum 2015
Publications
“Ceiling Patterns in Amarna Elite Tombs.” The Akhetaten Sun 25 no. 2 (Fall 2019): 20-33.
Teaching Experience
Emory University
Graduate Courses
Ancient Egyptian Art and Hieroglyphs (Graduate Seminar co-taught with Dr. Gay Robins) Spring 2015
Undergraduate Courses
Public Scholarship and Digital Humanities Spring 2020
Art of the Saqqara Necropolis Spring 2017
Elementary Arabic (TA for Dr. Rkia Cornell) Spring 2015
Ancient Egyptian Art 1550-30 BCE (Co-taught with Dr. Gay Robins) Fall 2014
Introduction to Art History: Art and Architecture Renaissance to Present (TA for Dr. Linda Merrill) Spring 2014
Introduction to Art History: Art and Architecture Prehistory to Renaissance (TA for Dr. Linda Merrill) Fall 2018, 2013
University of West Georgia
Introduction to Ancient Art: Special Topic Ancient Egypt Summer 2017, 2016
Introduction to Western Art Summer 2017, 2016
Museum, Special Collections, and Archival Experience
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow 2020-2022
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta Georgia
Curatorial Assistant to Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubia, and Near Eastern Art, Dr. Melinda K. Hartwig 2017-2019
Mellon Summer Fellow, Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubia, and Near Eastern Art 2017, 2016
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Special Collections and Reading Room Specialist 2014-2020
Frank H. McClung Museum, Knoxville Tennessee
Consulting Curator of Egyptology 2013-2015
Archivist and Egyptologist on Staff 2012-2013
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville Tennessee
Curatorial Assistant to Curator of Fashion and Textiles Candace Adelson 2011-2012
Digital Projects
Michael c. Carlos Museum, Atlanta Georgia
Interactive Map of the Rise and Fall of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations for Ancient Near Eastern Gallery permanent exhibit
Independent Projects
Digital Davies: The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna
Papers Given
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Re-Centering Memory: Visiting Amarna Tombs.” Virtual Spring Fellows Colloquium, New York, NY May 2021
American Research Center Egypt (ARCE) Annual Meeting
"This-Side, That-Side: Thebes, Amarna, and the diesseitige-Jenseits.” 69thAnnual Meeting, Tucson, AZ April 2018
“Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine: Creation of Ritual Space at Amarna.” 68thAnnual Meeting, Kansas City, MO April 2017
Invited Talks
Emory University
"Ancient Egyptian Cosmos" (Guest Lecture for Joseph S. Benavides, Philosophy Department) Spring 2016
“I Opened My Mouth to my Ba: Despair, Suicide, and the Self in The Dialogue Between a Man and His Ba.” Friday Philosophy Forum hosted by the Graduate Philosophy Society Fall 2015
University of Tennessee Knoxville
"Ancient Egyptian Contracts: Examples from the Ptolemaic Period" (Guest Lecture for Douglas Gordon, School of Law) Spring 2016
"Ancient Egyptian and Modern American Housing Contracts" (Guest Lecture for Douglas Gordon, School of Law) Spring 2007-2013
"Introduction to Hieroglyphs" (Seminar for Staff and Docents, Frank H. McClung Museum) Fall 2012
"Ancient Egyptian Language" (Guest Lecture for Dr. J.P. Dessel, History Department) Spring 2007
Departmental Service
Student Co-ordinator for Graduate Student Recruitment Spring 2020
Student Co-ordinator for Graduate Student Recruitment Spring 2019
Student Co-ordinator for Ancient Egypt Job Search Spring 2018
Student Co-ordinator for Ancient Americas Job Search Spring 2018
Student Co-ordinator for Graduate Student Recruitment Spring 2018
Student Faculty Liaison 2013-present
President of Graduate Art History Club 2013-2014