Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2004
M.A., Art History, Florida State University, 1996
A.B., East Asian Studies, Harvard College, 1985
Academic Experience
Associate Professor, UIUC, 2012-present
Assistant Professor, UIUC, 2006-2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, 2005-2006
Publications
Review of De la ‘Cité de Dieu’ au ‘Palais du Pape’: Les résidences pontificales dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle (1254–1304) by Pierre-Yves Le Pogam, Speculum 84, no. 1 (January 2009), 178-179.
"Order and Ideal Geometry in Parma's Piazza del Duomo," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65, no. 4 (December 2006), in press.
"The Baptistery of Parma," in Joanna Drell and Kate Jansen, eds., Medieval Italy: A Documentary Sourcebook (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), forthcoming.
Review of La bellezza della città: Stadtrecht und Stadtgestaltung im Italien des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, by Michael Stolleis and Ruth Wolff, eds., www.caareviews.org, 1 March 2006.
"Gislebertus's Eve: An Alternative Interpretation of the Eve Lintel Relief from the Church of Saint-Lazare, Autun," Athanor 13 (1995): 7–13.
Research
The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma's City Center in the Communal Age; ongoing.The Italian Baptistery in the Late Middle Ages; ongoing.
Presentations and Lectures
Conference paper: “Saint Peter’s Venetian Square,” refereed paper presented at “Innenraum und Außenraum: Wie formt der Platz die Stadt?,” Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy, November 2008.
Invited lecture: “The Magnificent Builder,” invited lecture presented at “From Magnificat to Magnificence: The Aesthetics of Grandeur,” an international conference organized by the Program of Medieval Studies, UIUC, Champaign, IL, April 2008.
Conference paper: “The Campo of San Pietro di Castello in Venice from the Myth to the Margins,” Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference, Chicago, April 2008.
Conference Paper: "Movimenti di piazza: Surveillance, Spectacle, and Insurrection in Italy's Medieval Civic Squares," International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007.
Invited Lecture: "From the Octagon to the Square: Parma's Cathedral Piazza in the Late Middle Ages," School of Architecture , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2005.
Invited Lecture: "From Jerusalem to Paris with the Volto Santo of Lucca," Works-in-progress lecture series, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 2005.
Conference Paper: "The Vision of God in La Legende de Saint Voult de Luques," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2005.
Conference Paper: "The Key to the Baptistery of Parma," Society of Architectural Historians, April 2005, Vancouver.
Invited Lecture: "The Invention of the Piazza," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 2003.
Conference Paper: "Building Public Space: The Creation and Transformations of Parma's Communal Square," Society of Architectural Historians, Denver, CO, April 2003.
Professional Memberships
Society of Architectural Historians
College Art Association
Medieval Academy
International Center for Medieval Art
Italian Art Society
Authors' Guild
Professional and University Service
Treasurer, Italian Art Society, 2008-2010.
School of Architecture, Architecture Council, 2007-2008.
School of Architecture, Ph.D. Program Committee, 2007-2008.
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Library Committee, 2007-2008.
Medieval Studies Advisory Board (UIUC), Board Member (interim), 2007-2008.
Chair, Research Roundtable on the Premodern City, 2007-2009.
Chair, Research Roundtable on the Premodern City, 2007-2009.
Awards and Honors
UIUC Research Board Humanities Released Time, Fall 2008 (deferred to Fall 2009).Getty Foundation Non-Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History, 2008-2009.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Study in Venice and the Veneto, 2007.
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.
Scott Opler Publication Grant from the Society of Architectural Historians, 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 2006.
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities, 2001–2002
Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1999–2001
Samuel F. B. Morse Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1997–1999
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