I am currently an associate professor of art history at TCU in Fort Worth, TX.  I received my PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2012, and an MA in art history from Williams College in 2005. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design.

I wrote Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France and I’m currently working on the representation of “aging and older women” (scare quotes are deliberate).

I teach survey courses that cover prehistoric to contemporary art, and what I fondly call “the super deluxe 18th century (1680-1945).” I also teach graduate and undergraduate courses on Imperialism and Visual Culture, 18th-century fashion, and Impressionism, to name a few.

Images: François-Hubert Drouais, Family Portrait (detail), 1756, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; François Boucher, The Milliner (detail), 1746, Nationalmuseum Stockholm; Nicolas Lancret, The Four Times of Day: Morning (detail), 1739, National Gallery of London 

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