II. ACADEMIC CV
Education
2004 – 09 | Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture. Dissertation Topic: Imaging Nation: The Resilience of Indigenous Australian Art and its Colonial Representation.
M.A., Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture. Qualifying Paper: Space to Wonder at Incommensurable Curiosities: The Colonial Phenomenology of Recombinant Hybridity. |
2002 – 04 | B.F.A., Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Conceptual Art master class with minor in ancient Greek Philology. Final project: Living Monuments / Insert New Image Here. |
2000 – 03 | B.A., with Honours, La Trobe University, German and Art History. Thesis Topic: Re-membering in the Age of Reason: Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s Theory of Imitation, Ekphrasis, and Duality. |
Academic Positions
Current | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow (Humboldt University of Berlin) |
2010-2012 | British Academy & Royal Society Newton Fellow (University of Cambridge) |
2009-2011 | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lecturer |
Prizes and Fellowships awarded
2014 | University College London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Award | 2012 | Marrakech Biennale commission | 2010 | Arts Victoria Creative Development Grant (for Look Exhibition film production, Melbourne and UK) | 2009 | Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, research grant (Humboldt Universität | 2004-2009 | Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard University | 2008 | Getty Research Institute Fellowship, CIHA Melbourne | 2007, 2011-13 | Pembroke College, Associate Scholar, University of Cambridge | 2007 | Jan Westengarde Research Scholarship, UK | 2006 | LEF Foundation of New England Art Grant | 2006 | Arthur Kingsley Porter Traveling Fellowship (to fieldwork in Australia and archives in Europe) | 2006 | Austrade Los Angeles Australian Art Mission (to 24 remote art centers) | 2005 | Wellcome Trust, Madness and Modernity project, Vienna (archival research, contributing to book, conference, and exhibition at the Wellcome and other venues since) | 2004 | Australian Research Council, On Space research project (Prof. Timothy Mehigan) | 2003 | David Myers Medal La Trobe University (for graduating with the top mark in the university) |