Education

• MPA, University of Pennsylvania
• PhD, Temple University
• BA, University of Michigan

Recent Publications

• Editor, Maurice Mandelbaum and American Critical Realism (London: Routledge, 2010)
• Editor, Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007)
• Arnheim, Gestalt, and Art: A Psychological Theory (Vienna: Springer, 2005).

Recent Presentations

• "Site-Specifics: The Byzantine Post-Modern Aesthetic", Byzantium/Modernism: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Avant-Gardes. History of Art, Yale University (20-22 April 2012)
• "Sustaining Lessons Learned after the New Art History: Toward Meta-Theory," Journal of Art Historiography 2012 Conference, University of Birmingham, England, March 2012
• "Marcia Hall's Work as a Medial History of the Renaissance," On the Work of Marcia Hall, Renaissance Society of America, Washington DC, March 2012
• "Arte Programmata, Creativity, and the Challenge of Postmodernism," Tribute to Creativity, University of Verona, May 2011, Verona, Italy
• "Art according to Arnheim," Doctoral Seminar, University of Palermo, May 2011
• "The Secret made Public: Beatrizet's 1557 Map of Rome," Renaissance Society of America, April 2010, Venice, Italy

Awards and Fellowships

• Regional Fellow, Penn Humanities Fellow, 2011-2012