ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Education

Northwestern University, Department of Art History Nineteenth Century French Art; Graphic Art and Photography; Modern Art Criticism

Ph.D.

New York University, Washington College of Arts and Science Major: Sociology / Minor: Fine Arts / Graduated cum laude

M.S.Ed

Southern Connecticut State University, School of Education Concentration: Adult Higher Education, Workforce Development, Professional Studies

B.A.

Selected Awards, Fellowships and Honors

Postdoctoral:

William MB Berger Book Prize, 2017 Long List Nominee, British Art Journal for: Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’:Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire (Manchester University Press, 2016).

2017

University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Fleur Cowles Fellowship (residential).

2000

National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminar for College Teachers.

1995

National Endowment for the Humanities: Travel to Collections Program.

1992

Reva and David Logan Award in Support of New Writing on Photography

1991

University of Rochester, Fanny Knapp Allen Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Photography, Department of Art History.

1990-91

Predoctoral:

National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the VisualArts (CASVA), Chester Dale Fellowship (residential).

1985-86

Samuel H. Kress Foundation: Research Fellowship.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Old Masters Society Fellowship: Department of European Painting and Sculpture.

Mary and Leigh Block Art Museum, Northwestern University, Graduate Research Fellowship

Earlier Teaching Experience

Professor of Art History, Columbia College Chicago (1986-2000) with post-tenure review and dean’s commendation in 1999. Service included two terms as President of the Faculty Association and continued service on the College Curriculum Committee and Sabbatical Award Committee. Multiple teaching positions as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois.

See ‘Publications’ tab for publications in art history and ‘Current Projects’ for new scholarly work.