She also acts as the director of First-Year Experience, managing the First-Year Seminar, Living Learning Communities and First-Year Read programs. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in art history from George Washington University and master of arts and doctoral degrees in art history from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current research focuses on the highly complex events of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 Year of Peace. Her published work concentrates on American and Japanese women artists.