About Me
I was trained as an ornithologist at the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. After graduation, I joined the United States Peace Corps, and was sent to Deyang City in China where I served as an environmental education volunteer. Afterwards, I studied Chinese language and culture at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center before working at the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York.
In 2005, I entered the MA program in Chinese Calligraphy at the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan University. In 2008, I left the program to start a PhD program in History of Art at Yale University. After taking my degree, I worked as a lecturer at Smith College and a Melon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. Currently, I am an assistant professor of Asian art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.