My current research is focused on the Greenlandic artist Pia Arke, and her project Stories from Scoresbysund. Established in 1924 as a Danish colony, Arke discovered upon a visit back to her birthplace after a 35-year absence that the town lacked any official or unofficial history. As a way to remedy this lacuna, Arke began extensive research in 1997, finding over a thousand photographs of the original Greenlandic inhabitants of Scoresbysund in archives and personal photograph albums in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, and New York. The history of the town and its original inhabitants, was fragmented and told primarily by Danish colonizers. Scattered throughout archives, photo albums, scientific studies, and government reports around Western Europe and the United States, information, anecdotes, and photographs of Scoresbysund and its residents served as justification for or documentation of colonial activities in northeast Greenland.

Arke compiled her research into Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs, Colonisation, and Mapping, a book first published in 2003 and reprinted in 2010. Pairing the photographs found in various collections around Europe with narratives about the individual or individuals pictured (many of whom are her own relatives), she attempts to identify each person, re-establishing their identity and some of their history. Stories from Scoresbysund reflects years of research conducted in archives and collections throughout Europe in tandem with visits to relatives of the original settlers who looked through photographs, identified people, and told stories. My research on her project, a part of a larger compiled volume on nationalism, folk, and ethnography, edited by Marsha Morton and Barbara Larson, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in April 2021.

My review of the exhibition catalogue Edvard Munch: Love and Angst, from the recent exhibition at the British Museum, was published in the September 2020 issue of Print Quarterly.

 I am currently curating an exhibition entitled Home/land: Reinventing Nordic Identity. Although the Scandinavian countries are generally presumed to be homogeneous, over the last thirty years, immigration, especially from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, has significantly shifted the racial and ethnic demographics of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The exhibition focuses on contemporary Scandinavian artists who are either immigrants or the children of immigrants, and whose work deals with issues of colonial history, nationhood, memory, identity, immigration, asylum, and cultural assimilation. In 2016, I was awarded a grant from the Danish Arts Foundation to conduct studio visits with artists and meet with gallerists and curators in Copenhagen. 

I am a former President of the Association of Print Scholars (APS), a non-profit organization aimed at uniting the disparate aspects of the printmaking world— artists, curators, academics, dealers, print publishers, collectors, paper conservators, and critics— and supporting innovative printmaking scholarship. I have been a part of the organization since before its public launch in October 2014, working with the co-Presidents to build APS from the ground up. We currently have over 500 members from around the world and hold multiple lectures, meetings, workshops, panel discussions, and symposia every year.