I am a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art--particularly in relation to resource extraction, scientific knowledge, and media technologies--at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In 2024 I was a "professeur invité" at the Sorbonne in Paris and in 2026 I am a Mid-Career Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London.

My book Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and its Colonial Networks 1780-1850 (University of Chicago Press, 2025, awarded the BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize) charts how artistic production responded to and helped to shape the rise of extractive capitalism at the turn of the nineteenth century. My first book (Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism, 2021, Cambridge University Press, awarded the BARS First Book Prize) examines the changing evidentiary authority of the human body at the dawn of the nineteenth century.

Recent articles explore: art and infrastructure in nineteenth-century Britain (nonsite); resource extraction and German romanticism (Apollo Magazine); 'deep time' and Caspar David Friedrich (Representations); electricity and art during the French Revolution (Art History); and race in eighteenth-century French art (journal18).  I regularly partner with artists and climate scientists to explore alternative strategies for visualising the legacies of extraction in the present day. 

I hold a BA from Harvard University (2008) and a PhD from Columbia University (2016). My research has been supported by a Saltire Fellowship at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022) and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2020). I previously served as a Research Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art, a Pierre and Tana Matisse Fellow at Columbia University, a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and an International Dissertation Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. I also am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.