Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts’ major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collection, for which she co-authored the catalogue.
In 2012 her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press. Her curatorial interests range from contemporary to Modernist American photography, and have been presented in large and small exhibitions, in physical space and online.