She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University, where she also served as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Russian Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. A recipient of numerous fellowships, she formerly taught as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Her primary research interests include the history of modern and contemporary art and the nexus of art theory and intellectual history in the modern era. She is working on her first book, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of modernity which focuses on the role that alienation played in men's lives during the nineteenth century.