Faculty

Armenian and Byzantine art and architecture

Buddhist art and etoki (preaching with paintings); Buddhism and women; Japanese illustrated narrative hand-scrolls (emakimono); East Asian cultures

American architecture history, global architecture history, post-colonial studies, materiality

History of museums, exhibitions, and collecting; history of art history; Early Modern European art and theory

Historic, Modern, and Contemporary American art; African-American visual culture, artistic practices, and visual expressive traditions; Visual literacy; Anti-Racist Approaches to Museum and Curatorial Pratice

Art and Anthropology, African Art and Visual Culture, Museum and Heritage Studies, Institutional Theories, Historiography

American Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Theories and Methods

Ancient Near Eastern art and architecture, especially in the 1st millennium BCE; materiality studies; ancient magic and religion; reception and museum histories.

Medieval art, architecture, and visual culture in Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres; image theory; historiography; patronage; monasticism; cross-cultural interactions

film theory, philosophy and aesthetics of film, avant-garde film, film and modernism

Modern and Contemporary U.S. Latinx and Mexican art; Latin American art; Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora

Her research spans many forms of visual culture: she has published and presented on how new scientific approaches to the unconscious mind informed the work of American artists and critics in the early 20th century; on poetic satire and pictorial criticism of modernism in the 1916 Spectra hoax; on transatlantic encounters with the oceanic commons in art; on coordinated human and animal aesthetics in millinery fashion; and on the fabrication and perception of fly fishing lures, among other examples of 19th century 'ecologies of mind.'

Italian Renaissance art, Mediterranean studies, early modern books, and portraiture

Medieval Art and Architecture; Stained Glass; Gender and Women's Studies

Islamic art and architecture, the illustrated Arabic book, medieval Art of the Mediterranean, The portable arts.

Medieval art and architecture; early Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia; portable arts; medieval materiality

French Art - Realism to Post-Impressionism History of Drawing, and Art on Film