Prior to joining Stephens in Fall 2016, she was the 2015-2016 Anawalt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, where she conducted research on collectors, collecting practices and indigenous Mesoamerican dress. Other museum projects include work on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Hollywood Costume exhibition when it was hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014-2015.