She holds a M.A. from The Ohio State University with a concentration in Southeast Asian Buddhist Art and Architecture and a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate and University Center of the City College of New York. She is currently a visiting professor at the Universiteit Gent for Fall 2015 sponsored by a Fulbright/Terra Foundation of American Art Fellowship. Her research focuses on the visual culture of the Great War with an emphasis on the memory of the conflict in Belgium, specifically Flemish nationalism. Her book, Flemish Nationalism and the Great War: The Politics of Memory, Visual Culture and Commemoration, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.