Education
University of Michigan, PhD 1997, History of Art, Dissertation: “Social and Symbolic Uses of the Romanesque Facade: The Example of Mâcon’s Last Judgment Galilee,”
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1990-91, Reid Hall Fellow, Paris
Goethe Institute, Intensive Course in German language November-December, 1985, London
Michigan State University, MA 1985, Art History. Thesis: “The Aesthetic Theories of Roger Fry: A Re-evaluation”
Michigan State University, BA 1983, Philosophy (High Honors from the Honors College)

Major Fields and Research Projects
Romanesque art, Premodern European art, Christian art, visual rhetoric, beauty


Courses Taught
AH100 Introduction to Western Art I
AH100 Introduction to Western Art I online
AH322 Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Art
AH330 Renaissance Art in Italy
AH390/WGS301 Queens, Nuns, and Art


Awards
Oakland University, Academic Service Learning Fellow, 2012
Michigan Campus Compact Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award, 2004
Finalist, Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study Abroad, 1999
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellow, 1999
University of Michigan Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, 1998


Books

Editor, Canton’s Country Schools, Joan Cavell Palmer (author), Canton Historical Society, Canton, MI, 1993.


Articles and Other Written Work

“April-May 2012 Show: Grant Guimond,” Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art, MICA Gallery@ http://www.micagallery.org/april-2012-show-grant-guimond/

“The Death of Beauty,” screenplay with Terri Sarris, submitted to 2011 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards.

“Digital Savvy: Meeting our Students Half-Way,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, vol. 17/1, 2010, 83-94.

“Restoring the Integrity of the Mâcon Last Judgment Portal,” Source: Notes in the History of Art, vol. 25/3, Spring 2006, 9-15.

“Regarding an Ideal Portrait of Sappho,” Kresge Art Museum Bulletin, vol. 8, 1999, 1-5.

“NAWBO: it’s happening!,” National Association of Women Business Owners. Producer, scriptwriter, off-line editor, Message Makers video, Lansing, MI, 1998.

“Why Women Make Better Businessmen,” Lansing City Limits, November, 1998.

“USDST: American Champions,” United States Disabled Sports Team. Producer, scriptwriter, off-line editor, Message Makers video, Lansing, MI, 1997.
 
“The Association of International Schools in Africa: Welcome to AISA,” Association of International Schools in Africa. Scriptwriter, off-line editor, Message Makers video, Lansing, MI, 1997.

“Old Town on the Grand: Lansing’s Fresh Start,” Builder/Architect, Winter, 1994.

“Passing Through: A New Exhibit at the MSU Museum,” “Dreams and Reality at Otherwise this Month,” “Native American Art in Greater Lansing,” “The MSU Faculty Exhibit: 1993,” in issues of The Capital Times, 1993-94.

“Hogarth’s Pit Ticket: The Cockpit,” Kresge Art Museum Bulletin, new series, 2 (1986) 39-45.

“Form and Content in Jean Edouard Vuillard’s Jeux d’enfants,” Kresge Art Museum Bulletin, new series, 1 (1985) 15-20.


Public Lectures

“Digging Up Dirt: Cosimo de’ Medici, Felice Brancacci and the Moral Cost of Art Patronage in the Florentine Renaissance,” at Michigan State University, Art History & Visual Culture Faculty Lecture Series, 2009.

“Finding Our Roots in Ancient Iraqi Art,” at the Milford Community Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., 2008.

“Aspects of Visual Rhetoric in Medieval Burgundy and Provençe,” at Michigan State University, Art History & Visual Culture Faculty Lecture Series, 2007.

“Reflexive Imagery in Twelfth-Century Burgundy,” at the College Art Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, Poster Presentation and Session Chair, 2006.

“Romanesque Sculpture as Hermeneutic: Macon, Cluny, and the Last Judgment,” at the Society for Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Poster Presentation and Session Chair, 2005.

“Romanesque Sculpture as Hermeneutic: A Response to Cluniac Authority from the Cathedral of Mâcon,” at Western Michigan University, 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2002.

“The Desire for God: Visual Strategies of Inclusion in Romanesque France,” at Albion College, Center for Interdisciplinary Study in History and Culture Faculty Research Symposium: The Social Construction of Self: Views Across History and Culture, 2002.

“Witnessing History in the Galilee of Saint-Vincent, Mâcon,” and “Regarding an Ideal Portrait of Sappho,” at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Midwest Art History Society Annual Meeting, 1999.