Degrees:

• • Ph.D. The Graduate School, City University of New York, 2002
    Major: 19th/20th Century American Art and Architecture
    Dissertation: "The Visionaries": Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington, Patrons of American Sculpture
  • M.A. Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1984
    Fields of Concentration: American and Non-Western Art
  • M.S. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1974
    Minor concentration in Museology
  • B.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1972

Professional Experience:

• • • Director of UWM Art Collection and Galleries, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2013- 2018
    • Senior Academic Curator, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2006-2012
    • Curator of Visual Resources, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004-2006

Teaching:

• • • Senior Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004-2018
    • Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997-2004
    • Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department, Marquette University, 1997-2004
    • Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1995,1996
    • Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997, 1998
    • Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1983
    • Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan County, 1982
    • Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha County, 1978-1981
    • Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Washington County, 1976-77, 1979

Consulting and Research:

• • • Independent Consultant, Art and Architectural History, 1994-2008
    • Research Associate/Architectural Historian/Archaeologist, Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center, Inc., 1989-1994
    • Researcher, for exhibition catalog: The Ten, Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1990., 1989
    • Research Assistant, Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate School, City University of New York, 1986-87
    • Curatorial Assistant, University Art Museum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1983-84
    • Research Associate/Archeologist, Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center, Inc., 1989-1991
    • Archaeological Consultant, Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center, Inc., 1985-1989
    • Principal Investigator, Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center, Inc., 1978-1981
    • Staff Archaeologist, Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center, Inc., 1976-78
    • Graduate Intern and Scientific Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Milwaukee Public Museum, 1975-76
    • Supervisor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Archaeology Laboratory, 1974-75

University Courses Taught:

American Art Courses:

• • • • ArtHist 250: American Art
      • ArtHist 261: Modern Art, 1945 to the Present
      • ArtHist 353: American Art: Colonial Period – 1870
      • ArtHist 354: American Art: 1870 – Present
      • ArtHist 459: American Architecture
      • Arthist 467: American Painting and Sculpture: Pop Art to the Present
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: 20th Century American Art
      • ArtHIst 470: Topics in American Art: American Women Artists
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: American Landscape Painting, Colonial to Modern Periods
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: American Master Painters: Cole, Homer, Hopper, O’Keeffe
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: Modernisms 1900-1940
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: The French Connection, American Artists in France 1860-1920
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: American Art Between the Wars, 1860-1945
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: De-constructing American Art: Moral, Myth, Mirth and Mystery
      • ArtHist 470: Topics in American Art: American Artists Abroad
      • ArtHist 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II
      • ArtHist 750: American Art: 1900-1945
      • ArtHist 750: American Art: Popular Impressions: American Prints 1840-1940
      • ArtHist 750: Issues in American Art: Re-Reading American Art
      • ArtHist 750: Envisioning America 1776-1976: The Body Politic
      • ArtHist 750: Women and the Development of Modernism in Western Art, 1880-Present
      • ArtHist 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II

General Art History Courses:

• • • • ArtHist 101: Ancient to Medieval Art and Architecture
      • ArtHist 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture
      • ArtHist 104: African, New World, Oceanic Art and Architecture

Professional Societies:

• • • • American Arts Society, Milwaukee Art Museum, Board of Trustees
      • Association of Historians of American Art
      • The Wisconsin Archaeological Survey

Fellowships, Grants, Honors:

• • • UWM Foundation Award, 2006
    • Recipient, Mellon Award, Teaching Enhancement Grant, Marquette University, 1999-2000
    • Spero-Goldreich Dissertation Fellowship, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY, 1997
    • Wisconsin Humanities Committee, 1984, Exhibition Grant for "Melanesian Art: Dialogue with the Spirits", 1984
    • Phi Kappa Phi, 1984