Research ︎

Teaching ︎

About ︎




In my teaching, I approach works of art and design as shaped by social crises, political revolutions, technical developments, and uneven transcultural exchanges. Students are invited to think through these issues across a variety of scales, starting from the specificities of individual works and their modes of making.

My recent and upcoming seminars at the FU Berlin include:
    • Colonialism, Coloniality, and Abstract Art
    • Close Looking
    • Interwar Intersections of Art, Craft, and Design
    • Cubism’s Conditions: Race, Gender, Colonialism, and the Avant-Garde
    • Modern Art and Modernity in Europe and the Americas

More information on these courses can be found here under “Lehre.”

Previously, I held teaching positions at Williams College and Harvard University.

Marcel Breuer, A Bauhaus Film, 1926. Featuring the 1921 African Chair by Breuer and Gunta Stölzl.