Curriculum Vitae
Tertiary Education
2013 – December 2018: PhD in Art History
University of Sydney
2008 – 2009: Master of Art Curatorship
University of Sydney
Employment History
Research
Research Associate and Visiting Scholar, ECOINT, The European University, Florence, 2023-present. (ERC grant No 885285). Grant holder is Prof Glenda Sluga, EUI.
Research Collaborator, Professor Clare Monagle, Macquarie University, Project “Images of the Virgin Mary in medieval art,” 2023 – present.
Research Assistant, Dr Ruth Balint, UNSW, “Red Cross archives in Moscow,” Post-WWII Russian-speaking migrants to Australia,” 2022- present. ARC Project ID: DP220102526.
Research Assistant, Dr David Brophy, The University of Sydney, Translating a portion of a diary of Liu Zerong (1892–1970), who was a key intermediary in Sino-Soviet relations in the twentieth century, 2022
Research Assistant, Professor Glenda Sluga, The University of Sydney, 2012, 2018, 2022.
Research Assistant, Dr Sarah Bendall, ACU, Semester II 2021 “Whalebone objects in Australian museums,” “Historiography of whaling during the 19th century”.
Research Assistant, Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, 2014- present. Archival research, interviewing migrants, drawing maps for the “Shortest history of Soviet Union”, Illustrations for the book “On Stalin’s Team”, etc.
Junior Research Fellow, Laureate Research Program in International History, 2018
Researcher, Project Russian Post-WWII migrants from China
ARC Discovery Grant Project [ Prof Sheila Fitzpatrick], June 2018-2020
Junior Research Fellow, Sydney Intellectual History Network, 2017
Research Assistant, Professor Jennifer Milam, The University of Sydney, November 2010 – July 2017
Governance
2023- present, President
ECRESA - Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association
2019-2023. Board member and Communications Officer, SHERA Art and Architecture [ Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture]
Publications
Book
Women, Green Spaces and the Politics of Empowerment in Imperial Russia: Empress Maria Feodorovna’s Pavlovsk Park (under contract, Bloomsbury Academic).
Journal Articles
2018, “Sowing the Seeds for Strong Relations: Seeds and Plants as Diplomatic Gifts for the Russian Empress Maria Fedorovna,” Electronic Melbourne Art journal.
2019, “Joseph Banks and British botanical diplomacy,” Australian Garden History (01) 2019.
2021, “Presenting Grand Tour Memories in Maria Fedorovna’s Pavlovsk Park, 1782-1825,” Garden History, (01) 2021.
2022, Co-authored with Emma Gleadhill, “Giving women history: a history of Ekaterina Dashkova through her gifts to Catherine the Great and others,” Women’s History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.1912269
2022, Co-authored with Professor Jennifer Milam, “The Science of the Thrill: Russian Sliding Hills under Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II,” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2022.2104498
Essays
2023 ““Give with One Hand and Take with the Other,” British Diplomatic Gifts to Russia, 1795–1797,” Louise Hardiman (ed.) Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy: Edited Volume, Leiden: Brill, 2023.
2022, Co-authored with Professor Jennifer Milam, “Visual representations of plants during the Enlightenment,” Jennifer Milam (ed.) A cultural history of plants in the Age of Enlightenment, London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
2023, Co-authored with Professor Jennifer Milam “Picturing Cathay in Russia. Political uses of chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna,” Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh (eds.), Looking East: Russian Orientalism in the Age of Empire, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
2023, Co-authored with Emma Gleadhill, “Shaping the Memory of Napoleon in Australia”, Imperial Material: Napoleon’s Troublesome Cultural Legacy, edited by Nicole Cochrane and Matilda Greig (Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
Grants and Awards
Mary Bennett Prize for Women's History, 2022 [ for the article co-authored with Emma Gleadhill, “Giving women history: a history of Ekaterina Dashkova through her gifts to Catherine the Great and others,” Women’s History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.1912269 ]
Working with the Archives of United Nations Geneva Travel Grant, 2020.
SHERA Graduate Student and Early Career Scholar Travel Grant - CAA, 2019
Sydney Intellectual History Network Travel Grant, David Nichol Smith Conference, 2018
Junior Research Fellowship in Garden Studies, 2018
Joseph Banks Conference Travel Grant, 2017
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), 2016
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), 2015
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), 2014
Australian Postgraduate Award, 2013- 2016