About
Research Interests:
Emily's dissertation project concerns Indigenous Hawaiian and Māori women’s engagement with nineteenth-century photography as an innovative tool of self-expression and anti-colonial action in the face of US and British colonialism. Other research interests include Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and museum studies
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Selected Publications:
"Queen Liliʻuokalani’s accession photograph," in Smarthistory, June 17, 2021, https://smarthistory.org/queen-liliuokalani-photograph/
Selected Presentations:
“Threads of Knowledge: The Intricacies of Hawaiian Textiles.” Virtual Roundtable Discussion at the American Folk Art Museum, May 17th, 2023
“Critical Issues in Indigenous American Art and Visual Culture.” Roundtable Discussion presented at the College Arts Association Conference, Chicago, IL. February 12-15th, 2020
“Through Māori Eyes: The Portraits of Hongi Hika and Iwirakau.” Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America conference, University of Texas-Austin, February 6th-8th, 2019
Selected Museum Experience:
Curatorial Intern in the department of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, June 2019-August 2019
Curatorial Research Assistant in the department of the Arts of Africa, University of Michigan Museum of Art, November-June 2018
Education and Outreach Coordinator for the exhibition “Global Matters Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975”, at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 22nd-May 7th, 2015
Honors and Awards:
Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, Henry Luce Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies
International Dissertation Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council
Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellowship
Huntington Library Travel Grant for Research in the UK and Ireland
Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship
Teaching and Pedagogy:
Graduate Student Instructor, History of Art 993, "Teaching and Pedagogy, University of Michigan, Fall 2022
Instructor of Record, History of Art and Visual Culture 70, "Visual Cultures of Oceania: 100 Objects", UC-Santa Cruz, Winter 2022
Instructor of Record, History of Art 393, "Settler-Colonialism and Pacific Islands Visual Culture", University of Michigan, Spring 2021
Graduate Student Instructor, History of Art 272, "20th Century Art”, University of Michigan, Winter Term 2021
Graduate Student Coordinator, "Decolonizing Pedagogies Workshop”, University of Michigan, Fall 2020-Winter 2021
Graduate Student Instructor, History of Art 392", Anime to Zen: Exploring Japan through Popular Visual Culture", University of Michigan, Winter 2020
