RESUME

EDUCATION

The New School for Social Research, The New School, New York, NY Liberal Studies MA

I am a graduate student currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the Philosophy of Religion.

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, New York, NY Self Designed Major BA

I am deeply passionate about the intersections of multiple fields of study, having completed a self designed major entitled "Art Practice as Mysticism" that combined the disciplines of Philosophy, Religion, and Art and minored in Religious Studies. My senior thesis project was a paper on the philosophical implications of writings by the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.

EMPLOYMENT

Gallery Assistant, TRAMPS

(2018-present)
Past location at 75 East Broadway in Chinatown, NYC, Current location at 39 1/2 Washington Square South, NYC & 15f Micawber Street, London.

https://www.trampsltd.com/

Artist Assistant, Lizzi Bougatsos

(2021-present)

Writer & Contributor, Superstars Only Magazine

(2021-present)

Superstars Only is an independently published art magazine based in New York. In December 2022, Printed Matter hosted a launch party and panel discussion, which I took part in, for the third issue of the magazine.

Teaching Assistant, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School

(2024-present)
I am a TA for Professor Caveh Zahedi’s course “Directors on Directing: Contemporary Independent Cinema”. This course surveys independent films that push the envelope of cinematic form by engaging in a dialogue with the rules and expectations of classical cinema.

Teaching Assistant, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School

(2023-present)
I am a TA for Professor Mark Larrimore’s course After Religion. This course surveys the contemporary religious landscape to consider what part religious discourses, practices and communities may play in an increasingly unsettled future.

Research Assistant for Dr. Paul Kottman, The New School for Social Research

(2022-present)
I am assisting with the research work of Professor Paul Kottman, collecting a series of texts, images, and artworks pertaining to the topic of Aesthetics/Art and Ethics.

Research Assistant for Dr. Mark Larrimore, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

(2019-2020)
I collected and curated a selection of artworks, images, and publications, and wrote academic papers as a research assistant for Professor Mark Larrimore on the topic of Religion and Art in the Anthropocene. The research dealt with the subject of art stepping into what once was solely the role of religion as we culturally adapt to the Anthropocene.

Library Assistant, The New School

(2022-2024)
I organized various publications and assisted with the research work of Master’s and PhD students at the List Library in the New School for Social Research.

PANELS & LECTURES 

Anthropology Graduate Conference: Transcendence, New School for Social Research 

(2024)

I gave a lecture, entitled Substance as Method: The Anchoress' Cell, tracing the structure of the anchorite’s cell, as described in the Ancrene Wisse, to Neolithic cult buildings, as a means to induce hypnagogia and mystical visions. 

Visiting Lecturer

Dr. Fielve Tlaloc Palmer, “Religion and Culture”, University of Pittsburgh 

(2024)

I gave a lecture to Dr. Tlaloc Palmer’s Anthropology of Religion course on The Mystic Eclipse, concerning the via negativa and Apophatic theology in Mystical practice. 

Sky Woman as Creation Story and Indigenous Philosophy, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
(2024)

Gave a lecture for the Indigenous Resurgence section of Professor Mark Larrimore’s After Religion course. This lecture delved into the archetypal elements of the Sky Woman story, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy & the Great Law of Peace, The Song of Condolence and the Orenda, and the possibility of mystical practice.

Dr. Joe Stahlman, Remembering Peace: Scholarship as a Middle Road , New School for Social Research

(2023)

I invited Dr. Stahlman to speak at the NSSR and received an academic grant to help organize his lecture, which went beyond the conventional divide between secular and spiritual to discuss the topics of the Great Peacemaker, wampum, the Hodinöhsö:ni’ worldview, the practice of condolence, natural law, forest diplomacy, and cross-cultural scholarship.

Natural Sciences and Religion Panel Speaker 

(2019)

I spoke on a Natural Sciences and Religion panel hosted by the New School as a student representative of religious studies following a screening of the documentary film “Symbiotic Earth”, a deep dive into the work of evolutionary theorist and biologist Lynn Marguilis.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

I am bi-lingual English and German and fluent in French.