Education

Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2007)
M.A.  American University, Washington, D.C.  (1996)
B.A.  Smith College, Northampton, MA (1992)

Dissertation/Book Manuscript:
“Hoe schilder hoe wilder: Dissolute Self-Portraits in Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art” Advisor: Dr. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Professor, Art History, Lord Fairfax Community College – Middletown & Warrenton, VA (2001-2008)

• Courses taught:
• History and Appreciation of Art I (Prehistory to Medieval)
• History and Appreciation of Art II (Renaissance to Modern)
• History of American Art

Curatorial Experience:
Consulting Curator, University of Kentucky Art Museum – Lexington, KY                        (2007-present)

• Organizing exhibition “Heroes, Hoofbeats, and Heartbeats: The American Horse” to coincide with 2010 World Equestrian Games

Curatorial Assistant, National Sporting Library – Middleburg, VA (2008)

Presentations:

• “Using Flickr in Art History Classes,”
  February 2008. Technology Summit for Instructors. Rappahannock Community College, Warsaw, VA.
• “Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Artists, Drinking, and Identity,”
  6-7 June 2008.  American Association for Netherlandic Studies 14th
  Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies.   
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Research Interests
      
Dutch and Flemish self-portraiture, particularly unconventional images of artists; the themes of the Five Senses and Prodigal Son in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art; artists’ wives and depictions of marriage; the image of the horse in American art and attitudes towards equestrianism.

Professional Affiliations
College Art Association
Historians of Netherlandish Art
American Association of American Association