Education, Academic Positions, Awards

Education

1973-1986 University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in the History of Art

Master’s Thesis: Two Illustrated Tropers from the Year 1000: Paris, Bibliothèque National, Fonds Latin, MS. 9448 and London, British Library, Cotton MS. Caligula A.xiv

Dissertation: Illustrations of Troper Texts: The Painted Miniatures in Paris, B.N. fonds latin: MS.9448

Committee: [Otto-Karl Werckmeister], Alejandro Planchart, Ioli Kalavrezou, Susan B. Downey

Academic Positions

Spring 2023  Visiting Professor, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2021-2023   Visiting Professor, Dept. of Art, Art History, and Film, Boston College                  

2021-present   Research Associate, Art History Dept., Mount Holyoke College

2017-2021   Research Associate, History Dept., Mount Holyoke College 

2016-2018   Faculty, Bard College, Microcollege, Holyoke

2015-2017   Research Associate, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College

2014-2017   Research Associate, Art Dept., Smith College

2013   Distinguished Professor Emerita, Eastern Illinois University

Fall 2011   Evansville University Study Abroad Program, Harlaxton College, England

2010- 2013   Director, Humanities Center, Eastern Illinois University

Spring 2006   Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, University of Poitiers, France

1998- 2013   Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies, Eastern Illinois University

1996- 2013   Director, Art History Study Abroad Program, Eastern Illinois University               

1992-1994   Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of South Florida

1992-1998   Associate Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies, Eastern Illinois University

1986-1992   Assistant Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies, Eastern Illinois University

1979-1981 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Art, University of California-Los Angeles

1977-1979 Research Assistant, Dept. of Art, University of California-Los Angeles

Awards

2012   Irish Heritage Council Grant to support photographic illustrations in Françoise Henry in Co. Mayo: The Inishkea Diaries

2011   Trinity College Dublin ‘Long Room Hub’ Visiting Humanities Research Fellowship

2010    Eastern Illinois University Distinguished Faculty Award

2008   EIU Faculty Excellence Award for Research

2004    EIU Woman of Achievement

2003-2004  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship

2003   EIU Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, Research, Service

1999   Objects of Personal Significance exhibition named Tampa Bay's #1 art event of 1998

1998   NEH Summer Seminar, ‘Gothic in the Ile-de-France’

1992   EIU Faculty Excellence Award for Service

Seventeen research and travel grants from Eastern Illinois University and the University of South Florida

Three years of fellowship plus travel funds for dissertation research from University of California, Los Angeles