Education

Ph.D.  University of Texas at Austin, 1992
M.A.   Williams College, 1986
B.A.    Reed College, 1983

Academic Positions

Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History, College of William and Mary, 2008-present
Professor of Art History, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2005-2007
Department Chair, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2000-2005
Associate Professor of Art History, University of St. Thomas, 1999-2005
Director of Graduate Studies, University of St. Thomas, 1997-1998; 2000

Courses Taught

Undergraduate
Art and Culture of Colonial Mexico

Colonial Latin American Visual CultureConverging Cultures in the Yucatán Peninsula (study abroad)
European Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
Spanish Art and Culture of the Siglo de Oro (study abroad)
Spanish Art and Culture of the Golden Age
Southern Renaissance Art and Culture
Northern Renaissance Art and Culture
Revolution of the Imagination in Modern Mexican Art and Literature (honors seminar)
Symbol Systems:  Forms of Visual and Verbal Communication in Western Culture (honors seminar)
Miracles and Apparitions:  Texts and Images (honors seminar)
Introduction to the History of Art II (Renaissance through Modern)
Introduction to Art History (general survey)
Signs and Symbols: Iconography in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800 (freshman seminar)

Graduate
Art and Evangelization in the Colonial Americas
Art for the Masses:  Popular Religion and Artistic Patronage in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800
Sacred and Profane Iconography in Europe and the Americas, 1500-1800
Transmigration of Symbols:  Iconography in Colonial Latin America
Art and Ritual in the Colonial Americas
Women and Art in Colonial Latin America

Research

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Los olvidados:  maestros artesanos y sus obras en el Quito colonial (Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala) (forthcoming in 2010).

"Art, Identity, and the Construction of the Church of Santo Domingo, Quito," Hispanic Research Journal (forthcoming in December, 2009)

"Masters of the Trade: Native Artisans, Guilds, and The Construction of Colonial Quito," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians  68, no. 1 (2009): 10-29.

"Building a Life in Colonial Quito: José Jaime Ortiz, Master Architect and Entrepreneur," in Steven Striffler and Carlos de la Torre (eds.), The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Nation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), 40-51.

"La misteriosa vida del arquitecto José Jaime Ortiz antes de su llegada a Quito," and "Los maestros indígenas y la construcción del Quito colonial," in Alfonso Ortiz Crespo (ed.), Las artes en Quito en el cambio de los siglos XVII al XVIII
(Quito: FONSAL, 2009), 11-25, 27-51.

“Confraternities as Patrons of Architecture in Colonial Quito, Ecuador,” in Christopher Black and Pamela Gravestock, eds., Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas:  International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (London:  Ashgate, 2006), 204-225.

“Shameless Beauty and Worldly Splendor:  On the Spanish Practice of Adorning the Virgin,” in The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, E. Thunø and G. Wolf, eds., (Rome:  L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2004), 249-273.

Arquitectura y empresa en el Quito colonial:  José Jaime Ortiz, Alarife Mayor (Quito, Ecuador:  Editorial Abya Yala, 2002).

Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain:  Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week (Princeton University Press, 1998).

 

Recent Fellowships and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Ecuador, 2006-2007
University of St. Thomas, Sabbatical Assistance Grant, 2006-2007
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Ecuador, 2005-2006
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ecuador, 2005-2006
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Research Grant, Ecuador, summer 2004
American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, Ecuador, summer 2003