Her dissertation, “Community at a Distance: Ray Johnson’s Mail Art Network, 1955-75,” analyzes Johnson’s role as the initiator of the international “mail art” movement through the lenses of postal history, post-war avant-gardism, and theories of gender and sexuality. For her research on Johnson, she has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), and the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA). At the 2014 Southeastern College Art Association Conference (SECAC), she is chairing a panel titled: “Artworks + Networks: Materializing Connectivity in Art Historical Research.”