Since September 2025, I have had the great fortune to work at the Princeton University Museum of Art as the Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas. Here, I work to study, interpret, and display the Museum’s collections of visual art from America before the arrival of Europeans, and to bring this artistic traditions to the University and broader communities. As an archaeologist and scholar of Maya art and writing, I have a particular interest in Classic Maya ceramics, iconography, and hieroglyphic writing, and I have used them as a window to explore ancient Maya political relationships, religious practices, and economic changes.

Prior to coming to Princeton, I served a postdoctoral Fellow in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology at in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives at Dumbarton Oaks, working to build a comprehensive and searchable database of the the Justin Kerr Photographic Archive of Maya ceramics. I have also been a Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and I previously taught for Penn and for Bard Early College Newark Campus.