PhD, Art History, Pennsylvania State University, 2003
MA (Hons.), Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh, 1996
Teaching
ART 200 Art in Context
ART 271 History of Western Art I
ART 272 History of Western Art II
ART 378 Women and Art
ART 280 Modern Art
ART 484 Contemporary Art
ART 492 Methodology of Art History
ART 494 Independent Study in Art History
Research and professional interests
20th Century British art
International contemporary art
Critical theory
Selected publications:
British Art in the Nuclear Age, Ashgate Publication Company, August 2014
“Displays of Power: Telling the Story of British nuclear physics at the 1951 Festival of Britain,” 4th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester University, Manchester, England, July 2013
“Science, Art and Landscape in the Nuclear Age,” in David Peters Corbett and Lisa Tickner, eds., British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939-69, Wiley-Blackwell (October 2012), also published as a journal article in Art History, vol 34. No. 4 (April 2012)
Landscape, Art and Identity in Britain in the 1950s, Ashgate Publication Company, May 2009
“London Pride: 1951 and Figurative Sculpture at the South Bank Exhibition”, Sculpture Journal (Liverpool University Press), Autumn 2008 (volume 17.2), pp.23-36, autumn 2008
Awards and honors
Selected awards:
College of Arts and Architecture 2012 Alumni Award in art history, The Pennsylvania State University, February 2012
Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, London (Yale University), awarded for proposal “Art and the Atom: British Art in the Nuclear Age,” March 2009
College Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, Missouri State University, August 2005