Sheena is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in visual and material histories of reconstruction, with focus on early modern medicine and classical archaeology. Her research examines how and by which epistemic frameworks natural forms—including bodies and landscapes—become sites subjected to manipulation and repair.
Prior to Columbia, she completed her BA (Classics and Art History) at the University of Toronto, where she worked as an archivist assistant at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and studied art conservation at the Royal Ontario Museum.
She then completed an MPhil (History of Art) at the University of Cambridge, where she curated library exhibition “Diagnosing Difference: Visual Treatments of the Anomalous Building,” assisted the Leonardo da Vinci Society, and collaborated with the Fitzwilliam Museum.
She has excavated at Palaikastro (2022) and Falerii Novi (2023), training in object preservation, 3D-scanning, and Quantum GIS. Additionally, she has held a Jackman Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship (2021) and received the Harry C. Maynard Scholarship in Classical Studies from the Ontario Classical Association (2021).
