Teaching and Service

Professional and Community Service

·Writers Walk, Amherst MA, 2015-2021

  • As member of the Historical Commission, researched and edited website entires and sign texts and oversaw design parameters of project for walking tour of famous authors who lived in Amherst MA

Care Circle, Asfeha Refugee Family Settlement Assistance. 2019-present

Amherst MA Historical Commission, 2015-2022 (chairperson 2022)

Amherst MA Design Review Board (representative from Historical Commission), 2016-present

Volunteer, Hospice of the Fisher Home, 2015-2016

International Center for Medieval Art
Board of Directors, 2005-2008, 2012-2015

  • Member, Sustainable Investing subcommittee 2014-2018

  • Chair, Membership Committee, 2012-2016

  • Chair, Electronics Committee, 2004-2008

College Art Association:

  • Member since 1979

  • Millard Meiss Publication Fund Jury, 2007-2012

  • Committee on Women in the Arts, 2004-2008

  • Mentor, Annual Meeting Career Development Workshops, 2001-2005

Society for French Historical Studies

  • H-France Book Review Content Editor, 2009-2016

  • H-France Book Review Advisory Board, 2006-2016

European Architectural History Network 2009-10

Medieval Academy of America 1979-2013

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 2012-2015

Western Society for French History 2007-2009

Society for Architectural Historians 2009-2012

International Association for Word and Image Studies 2010-2014

Illinois Medieval Association 1986-1999

  • President 1990-1991

History research team ‘Territoires, Pouvoirs, Identités’, University of Avignon, 2008-2011

Reviewer, Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, 2009

Reviewer, promotion files for US university faculty, 2008, 2015, 2016

Mentor, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2006-2014

Reader, GESTA, journal of International Center for Medieval Art, 2004

Reviewer, promotion file for international university faculty, 2003

Court Appointed Special Advocate (Guardian ad Litem) for children of Coles County State of Illinois. 2007-2013

Guest Speaker (Using foreign languages in professions and Art History as a field of study), Charleston High School, Nov. 1, 2000

Evaluator, Brenda Edgar Scholarship for Women, Eastern Illinois University, August 2000

American Field Service (AFS) host parent 2006, 2003-2004

Presenter and Consultant, Foundations curriculum revision, Appalachian State Univ., March 18, 1994

Anonymous reviewer for proposed fine arts survey textbook. January 1993

Guest Speaker, ‘Egyptian Art and Culture’, Independent Day School, Tampa, FL.  Nov 1993

Guest Speaker, ‘Careers in the Arts’, Weightman Middle School, Pasco County, FL.  Oct 1993

Guest juror, numerous community art exhibits in Florida and Illinois 1993-1997

President, Board of Directors, Charleston Day Care Center 1988-90

 

Advising

Faculty Supervisor, Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Boston College, Eleanor Forestell, 2023

Faculty Committee Member, Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh: Sarah Louise Daiker, 2021-

External examiner, Nottingham-Trent University (UK), doctoral VIVA: Ramona Usher, “Constructing Irishness: Nationalism, Archaeology and the Historic Built Environment in an Independent State”, September 25, 2013.

Faculty Committee Member, M.A. in Art History, minor area of study (French historiography), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Alexander Hovan, 2006-2009

Faculty member, outside advisor, University of Illinois medieval art history graduate student MA and Ph.D. committees

Faculty Supervisor, Undergraduate Research Grant, Eastern Illinois University, Mieko Fujiura, ‘The Contemporary Art Scene in Paris’, 2006

Faculty Committee Member, MA in Studio Art, Eastern Illinois University: graduate students 1986-1992, 1994-2013

Faculty Committee Member, MA in Art History, University of South Florida: graduate students 1992-1994

Faculty Committee Member, MA in Studio Art, University of South Florida: graduate students 1992-1994

Faculty Advisor, Eastern Illinois University: undergraduate students 1986-1992, 1994-2013

Courses Taught

Introduction to the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving

Feminist Theory

Greek and Roman Art

Early Medieval Art

Romanesque and Gothic Art

Women in Art

Women’s Self-Portraiture in Art and Literature

Constructing the Modern City: Art, Music, and Literature in Paris 1830-1930 (on site)

Museum Cities: Art and Literature in New York, London, Paris (on site)

History of Art survey, part one

Art of the Western World (telecourse in conjunction with PBS series)

Grammar for Writers I