| Education |
2007: Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
2001: M.A. in Art History, with distinction, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
1999: Certificate in Museum Studies, Harvard University Extension School
1995: B.A., Double Major in Religion and Art History, George Washington University |
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| Research Interests |
| American art and culture, 17th-21st centuries; Islamic Art and Architecture; Contemporary Muslim artists working in America, such as Mona Hatoum, Ambreen Butt, and Shirin Neshat; American social and religious history; aesthetics and critical theory; museum studies; Puritan portraiture; temperance and dietary reform in the nineteenth century; sexuality in antebellum America; ventriloquism, waxworks, and magic lantern shows. |
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| Honors and Awards |
Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007
University of Maryland Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2006 (declined)
Mark Sandler Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2004-2006
Terra Foundation for the Arts Summer Residency Fellowship, 2004
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Summer Travel Fellowship, 2002
Maryland Fellowship in American Art History, 2001-2004, 2005
Elizabeth Bishop Perkins Fellowship, 2000 |
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| Dissertation/Book Manuscript |
The Aesthetics of Intoxication in Antebellum American Art and Culture
Advisor: Dr. Sally M. Promey |
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| Teaching Experience at the University of Maryland |
Courses Taught
Art History 360: American Art to 1876, spring 2007
Art History 389A: Special Topics: Islamic Art, fall 2006
Art History 389I: Vision and Desire: Images and the “Hungry Eye,” winter 2005
Art History 289: Islamic Art and Architecture, summer 2003
Courses Assisted:
Art History 290: Art of Asia, University of Maryland, spring 2003, fall 2003
Art History 250: Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas, University of Maryland, fall 2002, spring 2004 |
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| Teaching Experience at the University of Massachusetts |
Courses Assisted:
Art History 110: Renaissance to Modern, spring 2000, spring 2001
Art History 100: Prehistory to the Renaissance, fall 1999, fall 2000 |
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Publications
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“Walking the Chalk: Moderation and Excess in Antebellum America,” in Carol Clark, Charles Deas: Telling Tales to 1840s America (Denver Art Museum, 2008 exhibition and book; partially supported by a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Fund inAmerican Art) [forthcoming].
“Objects, Contexts, and the Space Between,” American Art 21:2 (Summer 2007) [forthcoming]. “Reverse-Painted Looking-Glasses: Symbolism, Self-Fashioning, and National Identity,” The Proceedings of the Elizabeth Bishop Perkins Fellowship Program [forthcoming].
MFA: A Guide to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, contributing writer and researcher for Islamic
objects, 1999. |
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| Papers Delivered/Accepted |
“The Drunkard’s Progress and The Course of Empire: Temperance, Temperature, and Time,” To be delivered at the Joint Meeting of the Thirteenth Annual Omohundro Institute and Fifth Biennial Society of Early Americanists Conference, College of William and Mary, June 7–10, 2007.
“Race in Transit: Intoxication and Slavery in Charles Deas’s Walking the Chalk,”
Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies
Association, Susquehanna University, March 8-10, 2007.
“Vision, Emotion, and Annihilation in Frederic Church’s The Heart of the Andes,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 4th, 2005.
“Dissecting The Heart of the Andes,” The 35th Anniversary Fellows Symposium,
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 26th, 2005.
“Looking Down the Road to Ruin in the 1840s,” Intersections: Scriptures, Prints,
and Paintings in Antebellum America,” Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 2nd, 2005.
“Mapping the Visceral Culture of Antebellum America: Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave and the Pathology of Vision,” The New American Art History: Against the American Grain, Yale University, April 30th, 2005.
“Use as Directed: Viewing Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave,” The Fifth Annual Mark
Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, April 29th, 2005.
“Abel Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Talismanic Function of Children’s Portraiture in Early Colonial New England,” The Middle Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, April 2nd, 2005.
“Spermatorrheal Ophthalmia: Hiram Powers and the Perils of Unmediated Vision,”American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 11th, 2004.
“From Germania to Germany: Nationalism and the Pagan Revival in Sixteenth Century German Art," The First Annual Mark Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, February 24th, 2001.
“Reverse-Painted Looking-Glasses: Symbolism, Self-Fashioning, and National Identity,” Objectives: Museum Objects and the Stories They Tell, Old York Historical Society, August 21st, 2000. |
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| Other Scholarly Projects |
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Co-organizer, along with Jennifer Greenhill, Jason LaFountain, and Dorothy Moss-Williams, of Practicing American Art History, A colloquium to be held at The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute of Art, December 14-15, 2007
Editor, Tricia Wright, Smithsonian Q&A: American Art (New York: Harper Collins, 2007). |
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| Lectures |
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
“Carpets in Persia and Central Asia,” May 12, 1999.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“American Heroes,” May 5th and 9th, 1999.
“Egyptian Funerary Arts,” April 17th and 28th, 1999.
“American Painting Between the Wars,” March 3rd and 7th, 1999.
“Maritime America,” February 17th and 27th, 1999.
“Islamic Carpets in Context,” January 9th and 13th, 1999.
“Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting,” December 16th and 19th, 1998.
“Islamic Arts of the Book.” November 18th and 22nd, 1998.
“Islamic Art,” October 7th and 17th, 1998. |
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| Curatorial Experience |
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Curatorial Intern in American Art,
January-May 2002.
Old York Historical Society, York ME, Curator of the exhibition Reverse-Painted Looking- Glasses: Symbolism, Self-Fashioning, and National Identity, August 21st – October 10th, 2000, George Marshall Store Gallery.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Curatorial Intern, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, August 1998 – January 1999.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Research Assistant, The Peale Papers, under the direction of Dr. Lillian B. Miller, Smithsonian Institution Historian of American Culture, summer 1996. |
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| Honor Societies |
| Phi Kappa Phi |
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| Languages Read |
| English, French, German |
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| Professional Affiliations |
American Studies Association
Association of Historians of American Art
College Art Association
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Early Republic |
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