Research
My research examines the art and architecture of early modern Europe and its transcultural connections. In 2024, my book Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power, 1400–1750, co-authored with Ashley Offill, will be published, distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press. This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same title, examines the centrality of sculpture to making meaning in daily life in early modern Europe. In addition to scholarly essays, it includes a catalogue of 238 sculptures at the Hood Museum of Art, most of which have never before been published. My second project, Modernizing Tradition: Liège and the Laboratory for Sculpture (1468–1566) studies the development of sculpture in the context of Protestant anxieties about images and the immigration of artists in the early modern Low Countries. I have published articles in Gesta, The Metropolitan Museum Journal, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Burlington Magazine, edited volumes, and museum publications. New research includes the study of female sculptors in the Low Countries, the role of medieval sculpture in early twentieth-century nationalism, and the effects of the environment in artists’ workshops.
Brussels and Mechelen Workshops, Miniature altarpiece with the Coronation of the Virgin, ca. 1525 (Caramoor Center for the Arts and Music)
Publications
Books
co-authored with Ashley Offill, Living with Sculpture: Power and Presence in Europe, 1400–1750, exh. cat. (Hanover: Hood Museum of Art distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024)
Articles
“Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500–1900,” Hood Museum Quarterly (Summer 2023): 8–9.
with Ashley Offill, “New Discoveries through Campus Research Collaborations,” Hood Museum Quarterly (Spring 2023): 10–11.
“Intimate Exchanges between Africa and Europe in the Seventeenth Century,” Hood Museum Quarterly (Spring 2022): 11.
“A Source for Two Figurines by Hans von Reutlingen,” The Metropolitan Museum Journal 56 (2021): 172–81.
“Ordering Reliquary Statuettes in Tongeren: A Statement Admist Religious Turmoil,” Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 42, no. 3/4 (2020) : 198–219.
Awarded the Haboldt-Mutters Prize for the best contribution to the study of European Art before 1950 by an art historian under 35
“A Miniature Netherlandish Altarpiece Rediscovered,” Burlington Magazine 162, no. 1408 (July 2020): 590–92.
“The Receptions and Rejections of Sicilian Regalia in Late Medieval Nuremberg,” Gesta 58, no. 1 (April 2019): 77–102.
“Archaism and Antiquity: The Master of Elsloo’s Impassive Virgins,” in The Master of Elsloo: From Lonely Hand to Collection of Masters, ed. Lars Hendrikman, 61–81 (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers for the Bonnefanten Museum, 2019).
“Heiligen verzamelen: De reliekfigurines van de Paulusdom van Münster,” Catharijne: Magazine van Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, no. 1 (2019): 15–18.
Catalogue entries in François Ier et l’art des Pays-Bas, edited by Cécile Scailliérez (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2017).
“The Book Under Pressure,” in Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, edited by Pamela Franks, 98–121 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2014).
Attributed to Wolf Traut, The Imperial Relics, in Heiligthum und Gnade, wie sie jährlich in Nürnberg ausgerufen werden, 1487, woodcut with hand coloring (Library of Congress)
Reviews
Review of Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon Wearing, eds., Illuminating Metalwork: Metal,Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), The Medieval Review (2023).
Review of Katherine Boivin, Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021), Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Summer 2022): 1–2.
Review of Gutiérrez Baños, Fernando, Justin Kroesen, and Elisabeth Andersen, eds., The Saint Enshrined: European Tabernacle-Altarpieces c. 1150–1400, Medievalia, Revista d'Estudis Medievals 23 (Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020), Speculum 97, no. 3 (2022), 839–40.
Review of Susan Foister and Peter van den Brink, Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), Renaissance Reformation 44, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 265–67.
Review of Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later, ed. Peter Arnade, Martha Howell, and Anton van der Lem (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), EuropeNow (Summer 2021).
Review of Claudia Swan, Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), Renaissance and Reformation (Spring 2021): 313–16.
Review of Valerie Herremans, Rubens. Architectural Sculpture (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXII: Architecture and Sculpture, 4), Translated from the Dutch by Ted Alkins and Irene Schaudies (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019), Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews (August 2020).
“Report from London: Monochrome: Painting in Black and White,” International Center for Medieval Art Newsletter, no. 1 (April 2018): 20–22.
Forthcoming
Co-Editor, Between Burgundy and Empire: Exchange in Liège and the Arts in the Sixteenth Century (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)
“Prestige and Display of Sculpture in the Netherlandish Palace,” in Taking Shape: Sculpture of the Low Countries (1400–1600), ed. Julie Beckers and Hannah De Moor (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2024).
“Reflecting a Golden Age: Materializing History in the Medieval Treasury,” in Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive, ed. Emily Savage (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2024).
“Imagined Communities in the Black Marble Tombs of the Clergy of Liège,” in Tombs and Epitaphs in Northern Europe, edited by Birgit Ulrike Münch and Ethan Matt Kavaler (Turnhout: Brepols forthcoming 2024).
