Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D. Art History, Princeton University, 2002.
MA, Art History, Princeton University, 1998.
BA, English and Politics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1993, cum laude with honors granted in History for senior thesis.
Academic Experience
Lecturer, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001-2005
Co-Director, University of Colorado at Boulder Summer Art History Program in Florence and Rome, 1998-1999; 2002; 2004
Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University, 1997
Publications
Book: The Serpent and the Stylus:Essays on G.B. Piranesi, co-editor of the volume; to include my essay, "Engraved in Porphyry, Printed on Paper: Piranesi and Lord Charlemont," University of Michigan Press, 2006Article: "Amore regolato: Papal Nephews and Their Palaces in Eighteenth Century Rome," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2006, forthcoming. Article: "Rejecting Piranesi," The Burlington Magazine 143 (July 2001): pp. 412-19.
Article: "Mapping Mussolini: Ritual and Cartography in Public Art during the Second Roman Empire," Imago Mundi 51 (1999): pp. 147-62.
Book review: Review of Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts by Jeffrey Collins, Church History Review 70, no. 3 (2005), forthcoming.
Exhibition catalogue: "Ritratto di Giovanni Gaetano Bottari," Nolli - Vasi - Piranesi, Immagine di Roma antica e moderna, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 2004, pp. 100-103.
Research
Architecture and learned culture in seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, G.B. Piranesi
Presentations and Lectures
Conference: College Art Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 2006.
Paper: "The Corsini Chapel: Stones and Sacred History in Eighteenth-Century Rome."
Conference: "I Corsini tra Firenze e Roma, Aspetti della politica culturale di una famiglia papale tra Sei e Settecento," Rome, Italy, 2005. Sponsored by the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, and Università di Roma Due Tor Vergata.
Paper: "Neri Corsini committente del Palazzo alla Lungara." Invited paper.
Conference: College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2004.
Paper: "From Antiquarianism to Archaeology: Ancient Roman Antiquities in the Capitoline Museum," Panel: Acquiring the Past: A Critical History of Collecting Classical Antiquities.
Professional Memberships
College of Art Association
Society of Architectural Historians
Other Activities
"I Corsini tra Firenze e Roma, Aspetti della politica culturale di una famiglia papale tra Sei e Settecento," Rome Italy. Sponsored by the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, and Università de Roma Due Tor Vergata, 2005
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2004
Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Denver, 2003
Co-organizer and Chair of "Piranesi Nuovi Contributi" conference, Rome. Sponsored by the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Centro Studi sulla Cultura e l'Immagine di Roma, and the Accademia dei Lincei, 2001
Awards and Honors
Graduate School Summer Stipend in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, 2001, 2002
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the History of Art, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, 1999-2001
Graduate School Summer Stipend in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, 1999
Italian Studies grant for summer dissertation research, Princeton University, 1999
Spears travel grant, Princeton University, 1999
Spears small travel grant, Princeton University, 1998
ANdrew W. Mellon summer graduate fellowship, 1998
Exchange student, Columbia University, 1997
Italian Studies grant for summer dissertation research, Princeton University, 1997
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. Fellow, Princeton University, 1996-1997
Victoria Schuck Award, Mount Holyoke College, 1992
Heather Hyde Minor 