Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology. 2002.
MA, Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, 1998.
BA, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Awarded cum laude with double major in English and Politics. Honors granted in History for senior thesis, 1993.
Academic Experience
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture, 2011-present
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture, History and Preservation. Zero-time appointments in the Department of Art History and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, 2005-2011.
Lecturer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Art and Art History and Department of Humanities and Comparative Literature, 2005, 2004, 2002-2003, 2001.
Publications
The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G.B. Piranesi, co-editor of the volume with Mario Bevilacqua and Fabio Barry, University of Michigan Press, 2006.
“Antiquarianism and Cartography,” in Cartography in the European Enlightenment, (edited by Mary Pedley and Matthew Edney), volume four of The History of Cartography series, University of Chicago Press, in press.
“Neri Corsini committente del Palazzo alla Lungara,” in I Corsini tra Firenze e Roma, Aspetti della politica culturale di una famiglia papale tra Sei e Settecento, atti del convegno. ed. Elisabeth Kieven and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Silvana Editore, 2008, pp. 87-95.
“Der Palazzo Corsini im Rom,” in Rom – Meisterwerke der Baukunst von der Antike bis Heute, Festgabe für Elisabeth Kieven, ed. Christina Strunk, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007, pp. 448-50.
“Engraved in Porphyry, Printed on Paper: Piranesi and Lord Charlemont,” in The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G.B. Piranesi. University of Michigan Press, 2006, pp. 123-147.
“Amore regolato: Papal Nephews and Their Palaces in Eighteenth-Century Rome,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65, no. 1 (2006): pp. 2-25.v
Research
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome, Pennsylvania State University Press, in press.
Piranesi’s Imperfect Ruins, ongoing
Presentations and Lectures
Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Pasadena. Co-organizer with John Pinto of the session “Speaking Ruins: Architects and Antiquity, 1400-1750,” 2009.
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles. Paper: “Obscurity and Renown: Piranesi's Early Life as an Old Master.” Panel: Reinventing the Old Master, 2009.
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Dallas. Paper: “Piranesi’s Imperfect Ruins.” Panel: Imagining the Past, 2008.
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago. Paper: “Piranesi’s Imperfect Ruins.” Panel: “Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art,” 2008.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, work-in-progress lunch series. Paper: “Piranesi’s Urban Legend,” 2007.
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Boston. Paper: “The Corsini Chapel: Stones and Sacred History in Eighteenth-Century Rome.” Panel: The Roman Chapel, 1550-1750: Images, Functions, Rhetoric, 2006.
Professional Memberships
College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians
Renaissance Society of America
Professional and University Service
Society of Architectural Historians, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Committee, 2008-present.
College of Fine and Applied Arts Landscape Architecture and Architecture Ph.D. Committee, 2008-present.
Krannert Art Museum Acquisitions Committee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008-present.
Architecture Council, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008-present.
Awards and Honors
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Grant for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture, 2008.
Founder’s Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2007.
Unofficial List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Scott Opler Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship, 2006.
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the History of Art, Max-Plank Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, 1999-2001.
Heather Hyde Minor 