Kaylee is a Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library, where she was previously the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital Matters, the university’s digital humanities lab. She received her PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from Duke University in 2021, specializing in nineteenth-century visual culture, monuments, and funerary material culture. Her research practices are embedded in transdisciplinary practices at the intersection of visual studies, cultural economics, sociology, and data science, and she is the author of A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924 (Routledge 2024).
Previously, Kaylee completed an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and has taught courses in art history and digital humanities at Duke University, Guilford College, and the University of Utah. In addition to her teaching background, Kaylee has held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.