My research sits at the intersection of art history and critical theory, though I arrive there from an unusual direction. Rather than approaching my interests through sociology or philosophy, I approach it through visual culture and design methodology.

I’m particularly interested in how arbitrary systems of power operate through visual material, and how the art world simultaneously resists them. My theoretical grounding draws on Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu, and Arturo Escobar. My primary research areas are typography and letterforms as cultural artifacts, and the pedagogical experiments of the early twentieth-century avant-garde movements.