Leadership

Boards, editorial work, and service to the profession and the University of California, Irvine

2026–2029Vice PresidentInternational Center of Medieval Art
2024–2030Board of DirectorsNational Committee for the History of Art
2023–2026Board of Directors (Councillor)Medieval Academy of America
2021–2025Board of DirectorsCollege Art AssociationDevelopment Committee; board liaison to Research and Scholarship, International, and Juries
2021–2024Board of DirectorsInternational Center of Medieval ArtPublications Committee, ex officio
2020–2024Governing BoardByzantine Studies Association of North AmericaDiversity and Inclusion Committee
2020–2023Steering CommitteeMedievalists of Color

2021–presentSeries EditorICMA Books | Viewpoints, Pennsylvania State University Press
2024–presentEditorial BoardEssays in Long Late Antiquity
2022–presentEditorial BoardGender and Sexuality in the Global Middle Ages series, Brepols
2021–2026Series EditorThe Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press
2022–2026Co-Founding EditorJournal of Medieval Worlds (relaunch)
2022–2025Book Review EditorSpeculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
2021–2025Advisory BoardExemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory
2018–2022Associate EditorAfterimage, University of California Press

2023–2024Seminar Co-Lead“Premodern Critical Race Studies” Dissertation Seminar, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
2022–2025Invited MentorRaceB4Race Mentorship NetworkFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2019–2022Chair (2021–2022) and memberInclusivity and Diversity Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America
2020–2022Steering CommitteeRace, Race-Thinking, and Identity Seminar Series, Princeton University
2020–presentAdvisory BoardGender in Byzantium Bibliography, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
2014–2015Programming CommitteeBABEL Working Group Meeting
Grant and fellowship reviewerEuropean Research Council; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; American Academy in Berlin; American Council of Learned Societies
Manuscript reviewerArt Journal, Gesta, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Studies in Late Antiquity, Exemplaria, Journal of the History of Ideas, Interfaces; Pennsylvania State University Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press

2022–2023MemberSearch Committee for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient/Medieval World, Art History
2020–2021Founding MemberBlack Studies Cluster PhD Initiative
2020–2021Co-ChairSearch Committee for the Latin American Cluster Hire in Art History and Film and Media Studies
2019–2021Vice-Chair (2020–2021) and memberHumanities Executive Committee
2020–2021Faculty MentorInternational Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, School of Humanities
2020Departmental CoordinatorDivision of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Graduate Fellows
2018–2021Founding ChairPlanning and Development Committee, Art History
2018–2021MemberFaculty Development Committee, School of Humanities
2019–2020MemberLGBTQ+ Fundraising Committee, School of Humanities
2019–2020MemberAd Hoc Committee on the Faculty Teaching Award, School of Humanities
2018–2019MemberGraduate Admissions Committee, Visual Studies
2017–2018ChairSearch Committee for the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Iran
2015–2016MemberSearch Committee for the Meghrouni Chair in Armenian Studies
2015–2016, 2017–2018Undergraduate AdvisorArt History
2015–2016Academic AdvisorAlpha Chi Omega