Bard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events.

Since joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2008 as Curator of Modern Design in the Department of Architecture and Design, I have organized exhibitions including ‘What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1939-55,’ ‘Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,’ ‘Postwar Polish Posters,’ ‘New Typography,’ ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000,’ ‘Designing Modern Women 1900-2000,’ ‘Brute Material, Fiber into Form,’ and ‘Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye.’ Current projects include forthcoming exhibitions ‘How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior’ and a section of ‘Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive.’ As a curator, university professor, and writer on aspects of twentieth-century design and material culture, I have a longstanding interest in the social and political contexts of modern design, gender issues, and the culture of Central and Eastern Europe. I have worked as a curator in Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, where I was formerly the Founding Director of the graduate program in Decorative Arts and Design History. I have also held faculty positions in the history of art and design at the Glasgow School of Art, and Bard Graduate Center in 1999 and 2002-03, where I participated in the exhibition and related publication on architect-designer E.W. Godwin.