Ph.D. 2002, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.. Dissertation title: "The Center Cannot Hold: The History Painting of J.M.W. Turner in the Age of Revolution."Advised by Dr. Christiane Hertel.

MA, 1999, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Thesis: "The Critical Reception of Abstract Expressionism in Mass Media Art Magazines, 1944-1950."

MA, 1996, History of Art, American University, Washington, DC. Theses on critical reception of Degas and Manet, and contemporary English artist Raymond Mason.

"From The Death of General Wolfe to The Battle of Trafalgar: The Rise and Fall of Contemporary History Painting, 1770-1806," article currently in preparation. (Expected completion: November 2004).

Contributing writer, J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalog for retrospective coming to USA in 2005-6, organized by Tate, Britain.

"Turner's Slave-ship: Towards a Dialectical History Painting," in Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis and Sarah Salih, eds., Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and Its Colonies 1660-1838, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2004: pp. 209-22.

Object essays on William Baziotes, Adolph Gottlieb, Alfred Jensen and Louis Lozowick, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Permanent Collection catalogue, Austin, TX, 2005.

Guest Editor, ArtL!es (Houston), v. 45, "Art and Politics in the 21^st Century," (Spring 2004).

"Margo Sawyer: Contemplative Spaces," (review), ArtL!es (Houston), v. 43 (Fall 2004): p. 84.

"Kelli Connell: Double Life," (review), ArtL!es (Houston), v. 42 (Summer 2004): p. 86.

"David Hutchinson," (review), ArtL!es (Houston), v. 41 (Spring 2004): p. 83.

With Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, et. al., "Excavations at Fistikli Höyük, 1999," in Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilisu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs. Activities in 1999, Numan Tuna and Jean Ozturk (ed.). Ankara: Middle East Technical University, 2001.

With Gridley McKim-Smith, "Crafting the Intangible: The Art of John Clemmer," in David Clemmer, Leo Costello and Gridley McKim-Smith, John Clemmer: Exploring the Medium, 1940-1999, (exhibition catalog), New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1999.

"The WPA/FAP Poster Project," in Therese Thau Heyman, Posters American Style, (exhibition catalog), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

Lecturer: Department of Art History, Rice University Houston, TX, Current. Teaching advanced level courses in European art from the 18^th-20^th Century, designed to introduce students to the major artists, works and themes of the period as well as to key methodological approaches to early modern and modern art history. Also teaching advanced level seminar in Marxism and Art History, and participating in team-teach of second half Survey of Art History.

Affiliate Professor: Department of Art, University of Houston, Spring 2004. Taught two sections of Art History Survey, Renaissance to Present, approximately 230 students, in total. Lectures emphasized key monuments, artists and movements in history of art. Supplementary readings also provided introduction to the discipline of art history, and to methodologies such as feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Written work focused on learning to look careful at original works of art, and developing language to discuss them.

Duties included leading regular discussion classes which served to augment and explain lecture and reading material in an issue-oriented format, leading review sessions for exams, which emphasized reacting to specific student concerns of a broad or specific nature and meeting with students individually to review class and reading material. Also responsible for sharing the grading with professors for 40-60 students per semester, administering exams and attending to other practical matters. Also delivered formal topic lectures and developed innovative schemes for student participation.

Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Department of Prints, Drawings and Twentieth-Century Art, April 2002-August 2004.

Duties include organization and installation of exhibitions of works from permanent collection of Prints and Drawings Also responsible for installing works from the permanent collection in different public areas of the museum on a rotating schedule.

Exhibitions organized:

Prints and Drawings: Recent Accessions, 2002: June-September 2002

Famous/Infamous: Images of Celebrity (photography): August-October 2002

The Form of the City: Urban Imagery in Works on Paper: September 2002-March 2003

Word and Image: Text and Symbol in Modern Works on Paper: March-May 2003

Process and Possibility: Contemporary Drawings at the MFAH. August-December 2003

States of Mind: Modern Art and the Exploration of the Psyche. December 2003-March 2004

Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, 2002-3, March-May 2004

Images of the Landscape in Works on Paper, May-September 2004

In addition to planning and installing these exhibitions, prepared all written material for these shows, as well as for temporary exhibitions, such as Vija Celmins (November 2002-February 2003) for which I also prepared a gallery brochure, and Jasper Johns and Richard Serra: Drawings from a New York Collection. Duties also include research on permanent collection, preparation of agendas for accessions committee meetings, and assistance in the coordination and maintenance of collections. Also presenting potential accessions to departmental subcommittees, and museum collection committee for approval. Worked extensively on The Heroic Century, an exhibition of 200 works from the Museum of Modern Art, assisting in the planning and installing of the art, and coordinating the written materials to accompany the art in the galleries. Coordinated staff education series for that exhibition, and delivered lectures as part of that series and numerous tours of exhibitions to various groups including donors and collectors' groups. Created and maintained object files for Prints and Drawings department, worked with Registrar's office to integrate that material into museum database.

Exhibition Co-Curator: "John Clemmer: Exploring the Medium, 1940-1999," New Orleans Museum of Art October 3, 1999 Ð November 21, 1999. In addition to working on the essay noted above, worked with artist, other authors and museum director John Bullard in preparing exhibition checklist and display strategies, as well as plans for catalog as a whole.

Curatorial Intern: Department of Prints and Photography, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1995-96. Assisted curators in exhibition preparation. Activities included object research, artist research and preparation of printed material for exhibition display and catalog. Also assisted curators in preparing exhibition checklists, locating objects for possible inclusion and contacting potential loaners to exhibitions.

Research Assistant: Professor Barbara Miller-Lane, Department of Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1998-99. Worked with Professor Lane in preparing her recent book, National Romanticism and Architecture in Germany and Scandinavia,1880-1930. Duties were primarily related to assembling photographs for inclusion in book. Located photographs, contacted institutions, organized receipt, storage and return of images from private and museum sources in six different countries.

Research Assistant: Professor Gridley-McKim-Smith, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1996-8. Assisted in preparation of various publications, including reference checking, reading of potential sources and writing short written summaries to establish relevance and other detailed research projects.

Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College, June 2001- May 2002

Workman Travelling Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College, 2000-2001

Graduate Scholarship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College, 1996 to 1999

Graduate Assistantship, Department of History of Art, American University, 1994-1996

"Turner and Venice," Symposium, Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, February 14, 2004: Paper title: "' 'Now is come a darker day': Turner, Venice and the Fate of Britain"

Southeastern College Art Conference, Mobile, AL, October 2002. Paper title: "Turner's Battle of Trafalgar, 1806"

VizCult, Harpur College Dean's Workshop in Visual Culture, Department of Art History, Binghamton, NY, February, 2002. Paper title: "Turner's Battle of Trafalgar and the End of Contemporary History Painting."

Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Group, Department of English, City University of New York, November, 2001. Paper title: "Turner's Teignmouth, 1812: History and the Politics of Form in the Picturesque."

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition, Writing in Britain and Its Colonies, 1660-1838, Institute of English Studies, University of London, April 2001. Paper title: "A Difficult History and an Uncertain Future: Turner's Slave-ship and the Dynamics of the Sublime."

30^th Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery Washington DC, April 2000. Paper title: "A Difficult History and an Uncertain Future: Turner's Slave-ship and the Dynamics of the Sublime."

Session Moderator and Respondent, "Decline: All Good Things Must Come to an End?" 2^nd Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA, October 1999.