Overview
Amelia earned a BA from the University of Washington, where she majored in Art History and Classical Studies before attending the post-baccalaureate program in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. At Cornell University, she works on topics of Classical Reception and is specifically interested in the power and influence of Greco-Roman aesthetics in the modern period. Within the ancient world, she focuses on the politics of viewership, particularly surrounding Roman sculpture. Her upcoming MA thesis will address the American Modernist Isamu Noguchi's career-long interaction with classical texts, motifs, and mythology.
Amelia maintains a sharp focus on museological conversations and practice. Her undergraduate senior thesis, titled, ‘Participatory Art and Object Empowerment: The Complicated Treatment of the Sleeping Hermaphroditus’ employed a comparative approach to interrogate methods of viewership surrounding historical objects, and sought to highlight contemporary transhistorical curation of ancient art.
She has worked extensively in contemporary art, specifically as an Assistant Curator at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington as well as in archaeological collections (notably as an intern at the Penn Museum).