Overview
I am a historian of modern and contemporary Europe and the U.S. in the World. My work centers on how visual and material culture produces political practices, social relations, and ideas about the past, present, and future. More broadly, my research interests include the history of tourism and the Cold War, visual studies, critical and spatial theory, politics and aesthetics, political economy, and urban history. My dissertation, titled Europe Calling: Cold War U.S. Tourism and the Production of “the West,” is a transnational and comparative history of how U.S. tourism to Western Europe contributed to the idea of “the West” as a material and imagined space.
I am also the Reviews Editor of the Journal of Tourism History. Previously, I worked as an Editorial Assistant for the Low Countries Historical Review (BMGN).
Committee: Enzo Traverso & Claudia Verhoeven (co-advisors), Aziz Rana, Ruth Lawlor