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Greater Detroit Area

One of the foremost public collections in the US, the DIA collection of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts comprises over 8,000 objects from late antiquity through 1850, including significant tapestries, armors, arms, metalworks, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, ivories, furniture, and sculpture in all media.

Greater New York City Area

This postdoctoral fellowship focused on uncovering and documenting the provenance of works in the Department of Arms and Armor and making the histories of these objects more transparent to scholars and audiences. In addition to tracing the provenance of over 800 works beyond their last owners, I contributed to research, interpretive texts, and programming.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

This IMLS-, Mellon-, and Carpenter Foundation-funded position focused on conducting and coordinating research on under-documented artworks in preparation for the exhibition, "Civic Leader and Art Collector: Sallie Casey Thayer and an Art Museum for KU," and a companion publication, which share objects from diverse regions and time periods that were.

Kress Foundation Department Of Art History

As an instructor in both in-person and online art history courses, I worked to develop teaching strategies that employ innovative technologies and incorporate students' individual interests in order to facilitate deeper understanding of and engagement with historic works of art. In addition to collaborating with experts in distance learning to introduce.

With the support of a Judith Harris Murphy graduate research fellowship, I conducted research and drafted two chapters of my dissertation project, which explores the meanings resident in 15th- and early 16th-century German armor and its representations in images and text. This project takes the earlier of the two so-called Thun-Hohenstein albums, a.

United Kingdom

For this summer study abroad program, I developed a course on the art of the British Isles from the Neolithic through the present day, to complement and expand students' immersion in British history, culture, and literature through engagement with historic artworks, architecture, and sites in London, York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other locations throughout.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

My appointments as a teaching assistant in both large introductory survey courses and more focused lectures in European and American Art allowed me to hone strategies for sharing information with students from a broad range of backgrounds, many of whom had no previous knowledge of the field. Like my work in the museum context, this experience strengthened.

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Launched in October 2012 and led by Spencer Museum of Art Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and Senior Curator Stephen Goddard, the Arts Research Collaboration (ARC) fostered relationships among the arts, sciences and technology at KU. The project was supported by a three-year, $276,000 grant from the KU Research Investment Council through its Level 1 strategic.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

In this paid curatorial assistantship, I worked under Senior Curator, Dr. Stephen Goddard, helping with collections research, object cataloging, acquisitions, public outreach, and organization of exhibitions, including "Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing" and "39 Trails: Research in the Peruvian Amazon." Additionally, I independently curated the.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

As a Mellon Foundation- and Loo Family- funded intern, I worked as a paid curatorial assistant alongside Dr. Susan Earle, Curator of European and American Art, contributing to a wide variety of departmental tasks. These included writing labels, didactic text, and press releases, conducting research on objects in our collection, assisting with display.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Art History, With Honors

Activities and Societies: Collegiate Art Association, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Renaissance Society of America, Southeastern Art.

Ma, Art History

Activities and Societies: History of Art Graduate Students (HAGS), Collegiate Art Association, Historians of Netherlandish ArtHonors.

Bachelors, Art History & Fine Art (Emphasis On Sculpture)

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of "_ism Art History Society, " Glass Art Society, College Art AssociationMinors: History, Medieval.