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Education

• PhD, Art History and Archaeology, 2000, University of Maryland, College Park
• MA, Art History and Archaeology, 1994, University of Maryland, College Park
• Certificat de Hautes-Etudes, 1986, Université d’Aix-en-Provence, France
• BA, Modern Foreign Languages, 1987, Castleton State College (Vermont State University-Castleton)
• BS, English Communications, 1986, Castleton State College (Vermont State University-Castleton)
• AS, Communications, 1985, Castleton State College (Vermont State University-Castleton)

Teaching

• ART 273 Art of Africa, Oceania, & the Americas
• ART 350 Service-Learning in Art History
• ART 487/687 Art of the Americas
• ART 486/686 Art of Africa
• ART 485/685 Art of Mesoamerica
• ART 495 Internship in Art History
• MST 350 Service-Learning in Museum Studies
• ART/MST 488 Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
• MST 493 Undergraduate Apprenticeship (Museum Studies)
• MST 495 Internship in Museum Studies

Professional experience

Precious Pattern: The Dotted-Diamond Grid in Indigenous American Textiles – Explorations in
Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Andes (scholarly edited volume), Editor, with
Lois Martin. Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2026.

"Sex and Gender in Olmec Imagery," invited chapter, Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, UK, 2025.

"IDOLOS: Persistencias/Resistencias" Exhibition, Museo del Palacio Canton, Merida, and
Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico D.F., Art History Editor and Research
Coordinator, 2023.

"Function Follows Form: Assessing the Functionality of Shells and Greenstone Shell Effigies as
Formative Period Mesoamerican Textile Fabrication Tools, Part 1: Tagelus plebeius Atlantic
Stout Razor Clam Shells," article, EXARC Journal, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2022.

"More Testing of Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts: Possible Loom Weights that were also Twining
Tools," article, EXARC Journal, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021.

"Testing Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts as Possible Crescent Loom Weights," article, EXARC
Journal, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2020.

Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the pre-Columbian Americas
(scholarly edited volume), Editor, with Sarahh M. Scher. University Press of Florida, 2017.

“The Rogan Plates: Sex and Gender Representation, and the Bird-Human: A Case of Obscuring
the Overt,” co-authored with Katie McElfresh Buford. Chapter in “Dressing the Part: Power,
Dress, Gender, and Representation in the pre-Columbian Americas”, 2017.

“More on Olmec Gender-Ambiguous Costume: The Possible Appropriation of Attire as a Symbol
of Power,” chapter in Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the pre-
Columbian Americas, 2017.

“Los cubos de mineral del hierro: Estudio sistemático de replicación para la valoración de
hipótesis” (“The Iron Ore Cubes: Systematic Replication Study for Hypothesis Assessment”),
co-authored with Allison Robbins, Alexandra Thrower, Nicholas Deckard, and Sammie
Hernandez. Chapter in Arqueología de la Costa del Golfo: Dinámicas de la Interacción Política,
Económica e Ideológica, 2017.

Research and professional interests

• Art history and archaeology of Mesoamerica
• Art history and archaeology of ancient North America
• Sex and gender studies in art history and archaeology of the ancient Americas
• Fiber technology and textiles in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas
• Lapidary in the art history and archaeology of the ancient Americas

Awards and honors