Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Doctor of Philosophy in Art History with Honors, August 2003
Major Field: Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
Minor Field: Baroque and Colonial Latin American Art and Architecture
Minor Field: History of Jewish Life and Culture, 1000-1600
Dissertation: “Painting with Violence: The Representation of Jews in the Italian Renaissance Courts”

M.A., The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Master of Arts in Art History, May 1997
Major Field: Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
Thesis: “The Altarpiece of Corpus Domini: Urbino and Antisemitism”

B.A., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, May 1991
Major Fields: Economics and French

La Faculté d’Economie Appliquée, Aix-en-Provence, France
Certificate of Economic Studies with Distinction, June 1990

Publications

Editor of The Ziff Collection of Old Master & Nineteenth-Century Drawings, and author of
catalogue entries for Taddeo Zuccaro, the Bolognese School, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Ercole
Bazzicaluva, Pierre Lélu, Nicolas Lavreince, and Kate Greenaway. Champaign, Illinois:
The University of Illinois and the Krannert Art Museum, 1999.

“The Contours of Tolerance: Jews and the Corpus Domini Altarpiece in Urbino.” The Art Bulletin 85, no. 4 (December 2003): 646-61.

“Painting and the Politics of Persecution: Representing the Jew in Fifteenth-Century Mantua.”
Art History 23, no. 4 (November 2000): 475-95.

Review of Eva Frojmovic, ed., Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, forthcoming in 2004.

Review of Thomas P. Campbell, Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 34, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 938-940.

Review of Michael Zell, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 33, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 1209-1210.

Current Position

Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History and the Humanities, Reed College, Portland, OR