She holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2008-2009, and she was co-curator of Rodin and American Art, an exhibition and publication co-sponsored by the Cantor Art Center, Stanford University and the Rodin Museum, Paris. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, where she has been a research associate at the National Collection of Fine Art.