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Selected Conferences and Symposia
Oct 2022 “A Healing Wound: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.” Panel presenter for “Art Seeking Understanding.” Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Waco, TX.
Nov 2021 “The Rupture that Heals: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.” Panel presenter for “Transcendence as Hospitality.” Christians in the Visual Arts Biannual Conference, Austin, TX.
Oct 2020 “Expand Your Archive! Art History That Matters.” SECAC, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA.
Oct 2019 “Close to Home: Local Trauma in the Art and Art History Classroom.” SECAC, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN. Panel chair and presenter.
Oct 2018 "The Artist and Historian: Carrie Mae Weems and Historical Longing.” Conference on Faith and History, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Oct 2016 “The Active Image: Exploring Race and Gender through Photographs.” Conference on Faith and History, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA
Feb 2016 “Found or Recovered: Competing Views of Paradise in Late 19th Century Hawaiian Landscape Painting.” Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art, Wesleyan Seminary, Washington D.C.
June 2015 “A Nervousness in the Knees: Embodied Responses to the Sculptures of Robert Gober and Kiki Smith” “Between Two Worlds: Contemporary Art and the Church” Christians in the Visual Arts Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Feb. 2013 “Identity Predicated on Absence: Diasporic Narratives & Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Candy Spills” For the panel “Color Adjustment: Revisiting Identity Politics of the 1990s” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
Nov. 2012 “I Taste, Therefore We Are: Feminist Epistemology & the Subject in the Work of Janine Antoni” 3rd Annual Feminist Art History Conference American University, Washington D.C.
April 2011 “A Body Dispersed: Absence & Diaspora in the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Department Nominee to Annual Graduate Symposium
Mar. 2011 “Through the Body: Identity & Empathy in Contemporary American Art” University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS “Articulating Identity in Visual Culture” History of Art Graduate Symposium
Selected Public and Invited Lectures
Nov 2022 “The Art of Prophetic Imagination: Clear-Eyed Criticism and Energizing Hope” for Gotham Fellows Program, Redeemer Church, New York City, NY.
Jun 2022 “Faith and Creativity” panelist for The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
Oct 2021 “A Healing Wound: Lessons From Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.” Keynote speaker for inaugural Institute For Cross Cultural Mission conference, Washington D.C.
Oct 2020 “My Biracial Body Isn’t the Solution to America’s Racial Problems,” Covenant College Chapel Faculty Exhortation.
Feb 2020 “The Loving Look: Race, Gender, and Photography,” Faith & Life Forum speaker, Heights Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, OH
Oct 2019 “Race, Gender, and Photography,” C3 Forum inaugural speaker Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN
Aug 2019 “Black Images Matter: Expanding Our Archive for Black Dignity,” breakout speaker, Leadership Development Resource Conference, African American Ministries of the Presbyterian Church in America
Apr 2019 “Chocolate, Soap, and Lard: Janine Antoni and Bodily Empathy Through Absence" Feminism Week guest lecturer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Feb 2019 “Looking Justly at Race in Photography” Lee University, Cleveland, TN
Oct 2018 “A Loving Look: Art, Empathy, and the Beautiful Gospel.” Keynote speaker for Beautiful Orthodoxy, New City Church, Cincinnati, OH.
Sep 2018 “Looking Justly: Photography and Poverty” New City Network Community Development Conference, Chattanooga, TN
May 2018 “Fault Lines” Commencement Address, Covenant College
Feb 2018 “Art-o-nomics or An Interdisciplinary Look at Poverty and Justice” Scholarship Weekend Presentation with Lance Wescher, Covenant College
Sep 2016 “That Looks Dangerous: Art and Empathy” Faculty Lecture Series, Covenant College
Mar 2016 “The Value of a Christian Liberal Arts Education” invited speaker for a Covenant College recruitment event in Tampa, FL
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