Natasha’s research focuses on the visual cultures that emerged via the explosion of direct contact between Western Europe and late imperial China from the early seventeenth century until the fall of the Manchu Qing Empire in 1911. Multidirectional and heterochronic in approach, her work uncovers remnants of geographic distance and temporal asymmetry inherent to art created at the interstices of the Sino-European encounter and explores how artists working at these interstices mitigated or highlighted such remnants in the art they produced. Recurring threads within her work include material processes, cultural hegemonies of time, efficacy-based ritual, gender, and biological reproduction.

Prior to attending Harvard, Natasha received her B.A. at Columbia University with a major in the history of art and archaeology and a concentration in East Asian languages and cultures. During her time there, Natasha studied built heritage in Venice and conducted fieldwork on Eastern Han tombs in Southeastern China. She went on to receive her M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art where her qualifying paper won the Clark Graduate Prize.

She also has worked on a range of curatorial projects at museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University Art Museum, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and National Gallery of Art, Washington.