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Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History of Consciousness Department

Title PhD Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
History of Consciousness

Mail Stop History Of Consciousness

Biography, Education and Training

Where does the archive end and memory begin? I explore this question through the politics of memory, archives, and interimperial formations in Eastern Europe, with particular attention to Romani histories and the afterlives of slavery. Working with archival and ethnographic methods, I examine how the archive shapes not only what is preserved, but what becomes difficult to imagine within European modernity. I approach Eastern Europe as a critical site for troubling assumptions within postcolonial and decolonial theory, and rethinking the conditions of historical knowledge.

I hold an MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Bern (2022), and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University (2016). I am also the co-creator of Autocorrect, a Romanian language podcast that engages artists, scholars, and writers into open dialogue about intersecting power dynamics in Romania.

Summary of Expertise

Graduate Student Instructor, 2024-Present

Teaching Assistant, 2024-Present

Assistant Editor, Political Theory, 2025-2026

GradPath Mentor, 2024-2025

Fulbright Fellow, 2019-2020

High School Substitute Teacher, 2018-2023

U.S. Naval Officer, 2016-2018

Research Interests

Romani studies, history, archives, Eastern European and Slavic studies, critical race and ethnic studies, race and capitalism, nationalism studies, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, anthropology, ethnography.

Teaching Interests

Created and taught:

HISC 189: Neither East nor Europe: A Political History

This course examines how imperial formations, national projects, and political transitions shape the categories through which Eastern Europe is understood. Through close and symptomatic reading of materials ranging from cartography and film, to ethnography and political theory, students will explore how historical narratives shape political consciousness and condition what futures become imaginable. 

HISC 82: Another Brick in the Wall 

Pink Floyd guides us into exploring the walls that make up our world. From the borders that enclose nation-states to the bodies that give us the illusion of contained selves, we will encounter, build, or tear down the walls that define knowledge, power, and human and nonhuman experience. By reading "the wall" and analyzing it as a metaphor through a range of artistic, philosophical, and literary texts and media, we will investigate the meaning of place, consciousness, objectivity, as well as critique power structures and systemic oppression in our society. Who lays the first brick in a wall? Do resistance movements or violence take the wall down? How is patriarchy or racism a wall? How about language, science, and time?

Awards, Honors and Grants

The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2025

CART Summer Archives Workshop Fellowship, 2025

Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, 2025

The Humanities Institute Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, 2024

Schiffer Fellowship, 2025

History of Consciousness Department's Best Teaching Assistant, 2024

National Humanities Center Podcast Institute Scholarship, 2024

History of Consciousness Department Research Grant, 2023, 2025

Bruce Lane Scholarship, 2023, 2024

Dean's Travel Grant Summer, 2023

Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, 2022-2027

ERASMUS Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes Scholarship, University of Bern, 2020-2021 

Fulbright Fellowship, 2019-2020

Naval Reserves Officer Training Corps Full Ride Scholarship for The George Washington University, 2012-2016

Selected Publications

"Old Blouses, Old Houses: Hauntings of Romani Slavery in the Production of Romanian Nationalism." Critical Romani Studies, 8(1), 134-153. https://doi.org/100.29098/crs.v8i1.205. December 11, 2025. 

“Problema Românului Alb.” In Scena 9, January 7, 2022.