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Arts Division
History of Art/Visual Culture
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Visual Studies
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Kresge College Academic Building
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M.A., Visual Studies, UCSC
B.A. (honors), Art History, University of Maryland, College Park
Skateboarding culture, youth studies, photography histories and discourse, cinema studies
Youth cultural studies, American visual culture, photography history, cinema studies, politics of representation, constructions of truth, artists: Larry Clark, Norma Ibarra, Petra Collins, Ed Templeton
Histories of Photography
2026 DEI Graduate Writing Grant, UCSC
2025 Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence and Equity, UCSC
2025 Lionel Cantú Memorial Award, Dolores Huerta Research Center, UCSC
2025 Visual Studies Travel Grant, UCSC
2024 Visual Studies Travel Grant, UCSC
2023 Judith K. Reed Award, U. Maryland
2022 Honors Grant Award, U. Maryland
2022 Sandler Award, U. Maryland
2025 "Pharmaceutical Landscape," Photograph, Envisioning Health for All, McHenry Library, UCSC
2022 "Look!" Collage, Momentum, Maril Gallery, College Park, MD
“Wassup Rockers (2006) and the Geopolitics of Style: Reading Youth Culture through LA’s Urban Transformation,” Guest Lecture, HAVC 143D: Architecture and the City in Modern & Contemporary Visual Culture, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC, July 2025.
“Youth Fashion in Wassup Rockers (2006): Insights into Larry Clark’s box office flop and the geopolitical history of South Los Angeles,” Guest Lecture, LIT 80H: The Politics of Style, Department of Literature, UCSC, February 2025.
“Mark Gonzales: The Vitruvian Man.” Honors Symposium. Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. May 3, 2023
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