Education
Graduate
Montana State University-Bozeman, 2016-2018
MA Art History, College of Arts and Architecture
"The Wild Hunt for Norway: Peter Nicolai Arbo and Artistic Hybridity in the Nineteenth-Century," April 2018
Committee as follows: Chair, Dr. Todd Larkin; Dr. Regina Gee; Dr. Melissa Ragain
Undergraduate
Montana State University- Bozeman, 2007-2011
BA Art History, College of Arts and Architecture
"Van Gogh and Gauguin: Finding Religious Fulfillment," December 2011
Thesis Advisor, Dr. Harvey Hamburgh
Teaching Experience
Fall 2025
Taught a version of ARTH 312: Decorative Arts while a professor was on sabbatical; ARTH 312: History of Decorative Arts- Scandinavian Interior Design, and was responsible for its conception, syllabus, assignments, grading, teaching, and student communication
Fall 2020 to now
Granted the position of Recitation Coordinator and am responsible for leading weekly meetings with the MA GTAs, creating recitation content, recording recitation content, and being the liaison for the graduate students and the professors
Fall 2024, Fall 2025
Co-taught Pedagogy and Professionalism, ARTH 501, with colleague Jade Lowder, in a course mixing incoming MA and MFA students
Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025, Summer 2026
Taught original course, ARTH 391-003 Celtic and Viking Art and Legacy, and was responsible for its conception, syllabus, assignments, grading, teaching, and student communication
Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026
Co-taught ARTH 491-011 Roman Imperial Monuments and ARTH 375 Roman Interiors with Dr. Regina Gee during the MSU School of Art Study Abroad in Italy; locations included Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Pompeii, and Syracuse
Fall 2016-2025
Taught recitation weekly for ARTH 200, a survey of Ancient to Medieval Art and was responsible for grading all written assignments
Spring 2017-2024
Taught recitation weekly for ARTH 201, a survey of Renaissance to Contemporary Art and was responsible for grading all written assignments
Public Speaking
Leeds International Medieval Conference, July 6-9, 2026
"'See You In Valhalla': Teaching the Viking Age in the Age of Disinformation," presented during the Hard Times 1: Fascism panel
50th Anniversary School of Art Auction, Emerson Cultural Center, October 5, 2024
Alongside the auctioneer, Missy O'Malley, described and sold donated artworks for a scholarship fundraiser for the MSU School of Art
Tenth Annual Multi-Disciplinary Symposium, MSU Bozeman, December 6, 2019
"Troubling Heritage: Issues in the Representation of Vikings"
Docent presentation of "Baroque Impressions: Artistry and Ideology in Reproductive Engraving, ca. 1620-1860,"
A print installation in the Dean's Office of the School of Art and Architecture, November 2 and 6, 2018
Ways of Seeing: A Graduate Student Conference for the Arts and Humanities, MSU Bozeman, March 28, 2018
"Medieval Memories: How the Nineteenth-Century Remembered Vikings"
Ninth Annual Multi-Disciplinary Symposium, MSU Bozeman, December 8, 2017
"Talk with Your Feet: Gesture Analysis of the Portraits of the Grand Siecle"
Eighth Annual Multi-Disciplinary Symposium, MSU Bozeman, December 9, 2016
"The Wild Hunt: Viking Revival in the Nineteenth-Century"
Committee Work
Foundations Committee, Montana State University, 2023-now
Working alongside the studio arts Foundations Coordinator Jade Lowder to organize events, including (but not limited to) week-long studio-shares, gallery receptions, talks, etc. We also educate students, I poll for their opinion, and pass our findings along to the other faculty and staff
Curatorial Experience
Juried the Juried Student Exhibition at the Helen E. Copeland Gallery, with colleague Jade Lowder, February-March, 2025
"Baroque Impressions: Artistry and Ideology in Reproductive Engraving, ca. 1620-1860," a print installation in the Dean's Office of the School of Art and Architecture, November 2 and 6, 2018
Publications
"Unusual Freedom in Reproductive Prints after Van Dyck," 63-64;
"3 Lucas Vorsterman, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence," 20-22;
"4, Hans or Jans Witdoeck, The Holy Family," 24-25;
"7, Jonas Suyderhoef, Fall of the Damned," 30;
"8, Cornelis Galle the Elder, The Visitation," 32-33;
"16, Christian Mayer, Boreas Abducting Oreithyia," 58
In Baroque Impressions: Reproductive Engravings after Rubens and Van Dyck Paintings, ca. 1620-1860, edited by T. Lawrence Larkin. Montana State University, 2018
"The Wild Hunt for Norway: Peter Nicolai Arbo and Artistic Hybridity in the Nineteenth-Century," April 2018, MA thesis
Grants and Awards Recieved
Spring 2026
Faculty Excellence Grant courtesy of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost to speak at the Medieval International Conference in Leeds
December 2017
School of Art Student Opportunity Grant courtesy of Director Vaughan Judge for travel to the National Gallery and the National Gallery Library in Oslo, Norway, to study Peter Nicolai Arbo for Master’s thesis
2016-2018
Sydney E. Frank Foundation Grant Art Scholarship, Montana State University, Bozeman, granted for duration of graduate schooling
2016-2018
College of Arts and Architecture General Scholarship, Montana State University, Bozeman, granted for duration of graduate schooling
Associations
CAA, College Art Association of America
DAHS, Digital Art History Society
AHNCA, The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
ICMA, International Center of Medieval Art
Languages
French- Second language, technical vocabulary limited
Norwegian- Casual conversation, proficient reading
Icelandic and Old Norse language learning, with Signum University
Dutch, independent study
Tech and Skills
HTML and CSS (I built this website from scratch)
Web Content Management Systems (WebCMS)
MS Office for Mac and PC
Adobe Creative Suite
Wacom Tablets
Online Teaching and their Applications, like Webex and Panopto
Proficient in: pixel art, digital art with Procreate, traditional materials such as ink, soft pastel, watercolor, and pencils