Greetings, and welcome to my site! I am a historian of modern Eastern Europe with research specializations in the history of modern architecture, urban studies, and Holocaust and genocide studies. My work seeks to further our understanding of how architects and other urban dwellers have imagined and mobilized spatial strategies to resist totalitarianism and survive war and genocide. My pedagogy focuses on the dual mastery of historical perspective and hard skills in order to enable students to become critical thinkers and problem-solvers in our digital world. Please feel free to contact me with research questions, invitations to collaborate, or any other good tidings!
A Brief Curriculum Vitae
Current Position:
Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature
Harvard University
Past Positions:
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History, Maynooth University
PhD, Brown University
Department of History (2024)
MA, Brown University
Department of History (2018)
MA, New York University
Department of Russian & Slavic Studies (2016)
BA, New York University
Department of Russian & Slavic Studies (2015)
Recent/Forthcoming Publications:
Monograph: To Build the Impossible: The Life and Work of Helena and Szymon Syrkus (under contract, University of Toronto press)
Articles and chapters:
“First-Person Authenticity and Experiential Space in Visual Representations of Auschwitz.” (Under review)
“The Other Architects of Auschwitz: Towards an Architectural Holocaust History from Below.” (Under review)
"Building through the flames: Polish-Jewish architects and their networks, 1937–1945," Studia Rossica Posnaniensia 49, no. 1 (2024)
"No Song for Birds in Flight: The Life and Afterlife of Suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto," Slavic Review 82, no. 3 (2024)
Hear About My Work:
The Role of Auschwitz in Holocaust Narratives, conference held in Toronto, Canada, 5 May, 2025