Her honors thesis investigates the influence of legal language and regulatory diagram on the architectural form of US federal courthouses post-1962. In the summer of 2025, Elle studied architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and did research on modern art at the Davis Museum as a curatorial assistant to Professor James Oles. In the summer of 2024, she interned at the Tangier American Legation Museum in Tangier, Morocco. On campus, Elle works with rare books and manuscripts in the Special Collections Library, gives tours at the Davis Museum, and teaches weekly courses on art history to high schoolers in the Boston area. She has full reading knowledge of Latin and elementary knowledge of French and Portuguese. Elle hopes to continue exploring the socio-political dimensions of architecture and art history by pursuing a career in academic research, curation, or design.
