Hattie graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Davis in spring of 2022. During her undergraduate career at UC Davis, her primary interests related to Classical Greco-Roman sculpture and architecture in conversation with contemporary building practices. Her current graduate research focuses on architectural revivalism and national metanarratives conveyed through the presence of Neoclassical aesthetics, practices, and ideologies as found in 20th-century United States federal architecture.