About
I am an assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, specializing in American visual culture and public art. My research interests include representations of gender and race, commemoration, civic-engagement, and place-based identity within the United States. My current book project, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Contemporary Statue Monuments to Women and the Changing Heroic Ideal in the United States, analyzes more than fifty monuments to the five most-commemorated women in the United States (Sacagawea, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart and Rosa Parks) to uncover the many ways in which artists and patrons adapt the traditional model of the hero statue to integrate feminist and race-conscious modes of thought into local communities.
Education
B.A., Emerson College
M.A., The City College of NewYork
Ph.D., Stony Brook University Publications
Peer Review Articles:
“The Politics of Shame: The Glendale Comfort Women Memorial and the Complications of Transnational Commemorations.” De Arte 53 no. 2 (Fall 2018): 82-102.
“It’s Not About a Statue: Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum.” Public Art Dialogue 4 no. 2 (2014): 184-200.
Other Publications:
“Sakakawea’s Long Journey to the National Statuary Hall.” Capitol Dome (forthcoming, Fall 2019).
“A Conversation about ICA/Vita Brevis.” In Museums and Public Art? Cher Krause Knight and Harriet Senie, eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
“Vita Brevis: a Public Art Initiative at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.” In Artists Reclaim the Common. Glenn Harper and Twlene Moyer, eds. ISC Press, 2013. Projects
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Contemporary Statue Monuments to Women and the Changing Heroic Ideal in the United States
Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies, anthology, co-edited with Jennifer Wingate (Bloomsbury, 2021) Memberships
CAA
Public Art Dialogue
SECAC
Associations of Historians of American Art
