Education Background

1997 Ph.D. Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madisonniversity

1991 M. A. Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1988 B. A. Department of Art History & Architecture, University of Illinois, Chicago

Teaching Background

2006-present Edith M. Kelso Endowed Chair of Art and Art History, Macalester College

2011-2014 Chair of Art and Art History Department, Macalester College, St. Paul MN

2006-2011 Associate Professor & Edith M. Kelso Chair of Art History, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 

2003-2006 Associate Professor  & Chair, Department of Art and Art History, the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN

1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN

1995-1997 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History, the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN

Research Field

“Karen Kreul’s Topographies of Loss and Longing,” exhibition catalog essay for Karen Kroul: Topotgraphies of Loss and Longing, Exhibition Catalog, Rochester Art Center, August 24-Novemeber 12, 2017 (published)

“Transcultural Dialogues in the Iranian Diaspora: Shirin Neshat and Parastou Forouhar, Polish Academy of Arts and Science Bulletin, December 2016, pp. 75-85.

“Ornament and Crime: Parastou Forouhar,” essay for the brochure for the exhibition at John Warschaw Gallery, Macalester, February-March, 2013, 1-6.

Publications

 The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowcz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths (University of California--Berkeley, 2004)

 W.A.R.M: Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota (University of Minnesota, 2007).