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Research Projects

My research interests include the history of books, printing and illustration from the Middle Ages to the present, medieval Spanish art, and the arts and culture of colonial Latin America. I've enjoyed opportunities to present and publish papers and to assist with exhibitions on these and a wide range of other topics.

Publications and Articles

"Education, Training, and Recruitment of Special Collections Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements," in progress.

"A Fifteenth-Century French Illuminated Calendar Leaf," MVSE 39-41 (2005-2007 [2008]), 45-61.

Entries in The Art of the Book: Illustration and Design, 1650-Present , ed. Joan Stack, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2006.

Entries in The Art of the Book: Manuscripts and Early Printing, 1000-1650 , ed. Joan Stack, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri – Columbia, 2003.

Selected Presentations

  • “Graphic Diversity: 500 Years of Printmaking,” exhibition overview for Museum of Art and Archaeology Board of Directors annual meeting, January 2004.
  • “The Beatus as Battleground: The Medieval Christian Response to Pierpont Morgan Library MS. M644.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2003.
  • “Belief and the Sacred Image in Mexican Religious Folk Art.” Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Student Seminar, March 2003.

Selected Exhibitions

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

  • Research and introductory text for the Dr. Steven Ungerleider GDR Collection digital collection (forthcoming).

Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri Libraries:

Museum of Art and Archaeology:

  • Graphic Diversity: 500 Years of Printmaking, January 24 – May 22, 2004, curator/organizer
  • The Art of the Book: Manuscripts and Early Printing, 1000-1650, January – May 2003, volunteer curatorial assistant