University of Tennessee Knoxville

Faculty Member, Art History

Other Affiliations: Emory University, Art History
Emory University, History
University of Pennsylvania, History of Art

Lecturer

Thesis Title: Nancy as a Center of Art Nouveau Architecture, 1895-1914

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I am an historian of modern architecture and the decorative arts and crafts between 1850 and 1970, with particular interests in the intersection of these fields with geography, political culture, urbanism, and collective memory.

My dissertation examines the political and cultural factors that precipitated the rise of the cosmopolitan Art Nouveau in the small city of Nancy in eastern France. It places Nancy in the context of a broader set of regionalist movements around Europe and North America to argue for the formation of an alternative, locally-focused conception of modernity before World War I.

Currently, I am a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville for 2011-12.

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