She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2010 and will be taking up a position in the fall as Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally titled Radical Constructivism: Aleksei Gan’s Grass-Roots Modernism, which re-examines Russian constructivism through Gan’s work as a political organizer and maker of mass-media objects. In 2005, she was the curator, along with Richard Anderson, of the exhibition Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-1935 at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery.