After receiving her PhD from UC Berkeley, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 2015-2017. Her current book project examines the French looting of German art in the Napoleonic period and the ensuing Prussian cultural politics of the early 1800s. Recent publications include “The Object as Ambassador: The Splendor of Dresden in the United States, 1978/79” Representations (2018) and “The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era,” in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (2018).