My curriculum vitae is also updated and available as a PDF through Academia.edu.
Current and Past Positions
St. Olaf College, Professor of Art History, 2016-present
St. Olaf College, Associate Professor of Art History, 2006-2016
St. Olaf College, Assistant Professor of Art History, 2000-2006
College of William and Mary, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, 1999-2000
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Instructor of Art History, 1998-1999
Education
Ph.D., History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999
M.A., History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993
B.A., Art History, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, SMU, 1990
Research and Teaching Interests
Medieval Art in Europe (with special interest in the Gothic period), Italian Renaissance Art, Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass, Nineteenth-Century Florentine Art, Medieval Revival in Europe
Current Research Project
Material Networks: Stained Glass in Italy 1250-1400 focuses on the networks of materials, artists, and viewers that brought the 13th-14th-century stained-glass windows of central Italy to life.
Publications
- Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning, co-authored with Anne F. Harris. Oxford University Press, 2021.
- “Gothic Art in Italy,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- “The Creation of Stained Glass in Central Italy, 1250-1400,” in Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions, eds. Elizabeth Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 350-61.
- “Networks and Materials: Italian Stained-Glass Windows ca. 1280-1400,” forthcoming in an edited volume of the papers presented at the Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference in November, 2016, eds. Sarah Wilkins and Holly Flora (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
- “The Hoard Speaks,” with Benjamin C. Tilghman, postmedieval 7/3 (2016): 349–351.
- “The Franciscans and Stained Glass in Tuscany and Umbria,” in Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Word, Deed, and Image, eds. Sally J. Cornelison, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, and Peter Howard (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), 23-44.
- “Designers, Glaziers, and the Process of Making Stained-Glass Windows in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Florence,” eds. Elizabeth Pastan and Mary Shepard, Journal of Glass Studies 56 (2014): 237-251.
- “The Immaculate Conception Window in Santa Croce and the Catholic Revival in Nineteenth-Century Florence,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 12/1 (2013). Click here to read.
- “Close Encounters with Luminous Objects: Reflections on Studying Stained Glass,” in Transparent Things: A Cabinet, eds. Karen Overbey and Maggie Williams (New York: Punctum Books, 2013), 57-67. Download the book here.
- “The State of Stained Glass in 19th-Century Italy: Ulisse De Matteis and the vitrail archéologique,” Journal of Glass Studies 52 (2010): 217-31.
- “’Reviving the past greatness of the Florentine people’: Restoring Medieval Florence in the Nineteenth Century,” in Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages, eds. A. Jordan and J. Marquart (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), 171-94.
- “Architectural Restoration and Stained Glass in Nineteenth-Century Siena: The Place of Light in Giuseppe Partini’s Purismo,” This Year’s Work in Medievalism, ed. Gwendolyn Morgan, XIX (2004): 41-53.
- “Stained Glass in Nineteenth-Century Florence: Medieval Reproductions by the Atelier De Matteis,” in Interpreting the Middle Ages: Essays on Medievalism, ed. Susan Ridyard. Sewanee Medieval Studies 13 (2005): 59-81.
- “Cooperation and Conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi Chapels of Santa Croce,” in The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy, ed. William Cook. The Medieval Franciscans I, ed. Steven McMichael (Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2005), 257-77.
- “St. Francis, the Apocalypse and the True Cross: The Decoration of the Cappella Maggiore of Santa Croce in Florence,” Gesta XLIII/1 (2004): 61-79.
Fellowships and Grants
- Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College. Awarded for summer 2012 research in Umbria on current project, “St. Bonaventure’s Theology of Light and Franciscan Stained Glass in Medieval Tuscany and Umbria.”
- ACM Faculty Career Enhancement Grant. Awarded for Spring 2008 conference on Teaching Art History.
- ACM Faculty Career Enhancement Grant. Awarded for summer 2005 research in Florence on De Matteis project.
- Fulbright Junior Scholar Grant. Awarded for February-August 2003 research on project, “The Atelier De Matteis: The Revival of Stained Glass in 19th- and 20th-Century Florence.”
- Minnesota Humanities Commission, Works in Progress Scholar’s Grant. Awarded to match Fulbright funding for project on the atelier De Matteis.
- Faculty Development Grant, St. Olaf College. Awarded for summer research on project, “Franciscans, Florentines and Stained Glass: Santa Croce in the Fourteenth Century.”
- Kress Travel Grant, Kress Foundation, New York. Awarded for 2000 summer research on project, “The Stained Glass of Ulisse De Matteis and Nationalism in 19th-Century Florence.”
- Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant, Florence, Italy, 1996-97