Experience

Save Venice, Inc.

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow Digital Curator, The Women Artists of Venice Program

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  • Collaborating with team members to initiate a research project to recover the history of women artists from Venice in the Early Modern period, Women Artists of Venice • Initiating data parsing within a shared repository for research materials and project bibliography • Identifying core data gathering fields for a master list of artists and works to be researched • Collaborating with team members to initiate a research project to recover the history of women artists from Venice in the Early Modern period, Women Artists of Venice • Initiating data parsing within a shared repository for research materials and project bibliography • Identifying core data gathering fields for a master list of artists and works to be researched



Georgetown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2021

  • Taught undergraduate courses on Renaissance Art, Early Modern Venetian Art, Baroque Art, Survey of European and North American Art after 1400, and Global Early Modern Art to classes averaging 25–35 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Collaborated with faculty to develop course syllabi with diverse and inclusive content. Show less



Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• School Archivist and Historian

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Researched, wrote, and shared history on school, campus architecture, and art (American and European) via lecture, interpretive texts, exhibitions, events, and publications for this 220-year-old institution with history that paralleled American history in the nation’s capital. • Collected, arranged, preserved, made available, described, and digitized archival documents, paintings, sculptures, photographs, books, and material culture items. • Researched and wrote a 73-page self-study research report and assembled digital archive with over 70 documents on the history of slavery, which was cited on the Washington Post’s front page and in the New York Times, and later published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. • Copy edited all print and on-line text for adherence to the institutional style, format, grammar, and spelling. • Established best practices, information organization, and policies & processes for a collection never professionally arranged, including the implementation of a cloud-hosted collections management database, and the initiation of climate control and storage standards. • Fulfilled outside researcher requests for image rights and reproduction permissions and secured copyright permissions for all print and on-line texts published by school. • Wrote 3 articles for Visitation Magazine, 23 interpretive text labels for displayed objects, 5 blogs, and a “Brief History” for the school website. Show less



The Catholic University of America

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Jan 2015 - May 2016

  • Taught undergraduate courses on Renaissance Art, Early Modern Venetian Art, Baroque Art, and Survey of European and N. American Art after 1400 to classes averaging 22 students. • Wrote and graded 5 undergraduate art history comprehensive exams. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught undergraduate courses on Renaissance Art, Early Modern Venetian Art, Baroque Art, and Survey of European and N. American Art after 1400 to classes averaging 22 students. • Wrote and graded 5 undergraduate art history comprehensive exams. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



Goucher College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Taught a seminar on Early Modern Venetian Art to a class with 4 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught a seminar on Early Modern Venetian Art to a class with 4 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



Towson University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  • Taught survey of Western Art: Prehistory to Medieval to a class of 45 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught survey of Western Art: Prehistory to Medieval to a class of 45 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



University of Maryland, College Park

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Jan 2014 - May 2014

  • Taught course on Early Modern Venetian Art to a class of 28 students and Survey of European and N. American Art after 1400 to a class of 80 students, while supervising 3 graduate assistants. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught course on Early Modern Venetian Art to a class of 28 students and Survey of European and N. American Art after 1400 to a class of 80 students, while supervising 3 graduate assistants. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



American University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Jan 2012 - May 2012

  • Taught course on Renaissance Art to class of 45 students, while supervising a graduate assistant. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught course on Renaissance Art to class of 45 students, while supervising a graduate assistant. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



George Washington University

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professorial Lecturer

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

  • Taught course on Seventeenth-Century Italian Art and Architecture and Sixteenth-Century Northern Renaissance Art to classes averaging 35 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities. • Taught course on Seventeenth-Century Italian Art and Architecture and Sixteenth-Century Northern Renaissance Art to classes averaging 35 students. • Wrote and delivered art history lectures that utilize computer technology and on-line educational projects to enhance student learning. • Fostered an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds and abilities.



National Gallery of Art

• Museums
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Art Historian

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  CASVA, The Connoisseurship of Michelangelo's Drawings • Developed spreadsheet to track research findings on Michelangelo’s early collectors. • Compiled and edited data to systematically analyze collecting patterns. • Presented findings via regular meetings with project’s primary researcher. CASVA, The Connoisseurship of Michelangelo's Drawings • Developed spreadsheet to track research findings on Michelangelo’s early collectors. • Compiled and edited data to systematically analyze collecting patterns. • Presented findings via regular meetings with project’s primary researcher.

• Project Art Historian

  • Sep 2009 - May 2010

  CASVA History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590–1635 • Collaborated with team members to build a primary document research database, The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590–1635, digital humanities project led by Peter Lukehart • Researched this late sixteenth-century Roman art academy’s portrait and teaching collection via two primary document inventories. • Developed a data collection spreadsheet to upload research findings onto project website. • Provided logistical and programmatic staffing support for events, lectures, and workshops. • Presented research as part of the project team, in and outside the National Gallery of Art. • Contributed to writing a successful grant that funded outreach and promotion. • Wrote a project history outlining benchmarks and milestones for the previous 5 years. Show less



Temple University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Graduate Assistantship

  • Sep 2001 - Dec 2003

  • Implemented first departmental digital image database, the open source web application MDID. • Built FileMaker collection database to enable multiple users to input data for upload to MDID. • Trained faculty users with database display functions for course lecture delivery. • Implemented first departmental digital image database, the open source web application MDID. • Built FileMaker collection database to enable multiple users to input data for upload to MDID. • Trained faculty users with database display functions for course lecture delivery.



American School of Classical Studies at Athens

• Greece
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Member

  • Jul 2002 - Aug 2002

  • Developed a 300-field cataloging database for human remains found at a Minoan Bronze Age archeological excavation at the Hagios Charalambos Cave, Crete • Developed a 300-field cataloging database for human remains found at a Minoan Bronze Age archeological excavation at the Hagios Charalambos Cave, Crete



Wayne State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visual Resources Curator

  • Sep 1999 - Jun 2001

  • Developed a custom-built cataloging database for creating labels and cataloging cards. • Accommodated slide requests and generated new slides via copy-stand photography. • Administered departmental budget and supervised 3 part-time student assistants. • Developed a custom-built cataloging database for creating labels and cataloging cards. • Accommodated slide requests and generated new slides via copy-stand photography. • Administered departmental budget and supervised 3 part-time student assistants.



Flint Institute of Arts

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator of the Permanent Collections

  • Jan 1998 - Aug 1999

  • Curated 4 exhibitions on American landscape painting, Latin American printmaking, Asian art, and works donated by the Whiting Foundation. • Re-installed 6 permanent galleries, Renaissance and Baroque collection of fine art and material culture, American art (paintings & sculpture), and Indigenous North American art. • Wrote over 100 didactic, extended text gallery labels. • Built an inexpensive collections management database, which resulted in a centralized system for creating reports, registration forms, and a searchable archive with digital images. • Saw the curatorial department through AAM reaccreditation. • Received scholarship for professional development course, “NAGPRA’s Evolving Legacy”; brought museum into compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. • Initiated internship program with area universities, training 3 undergraduate interns. Show less



The George Washington University Dimock Gallery

• Assistant Curator of Art

  • Jul 1997 - Jul 1998

  • Organized logistics for 6 exhibitions, including student, faculty, and gallery-curated shows. • Designed exhibition lay-out and prepared all objects for exhibition. • Packed and shipped all objects for loan exhibitions. • Researched & wrote interpretive gallery wall labels, handouts, and press releases. • Co-curated a year-long, site specific sculpture commission on campus that resulted in a review of the sculpture by an American artist and the program in Sculpture Magazine. • Maintained loan program of approximately 2000 objects for university offices. • Supervised contract services of appraisers, conservators, and exhibit designers. • Initiated outreach programs and conducted gallery tours for students and parents. • Hired, trained, and supervised staff of six student assistants. • Administered wage, operating, and endowed-fund budget accounts. Show less



Smithsonian American Art Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Collections Management Database Assistant

  • Jul 1996 - Jun 1997

  • Internship led to full-time staff position in the Research and Scholars Center. • Entered catalog information about American art history objects into collections database. • Proofread data for consistency with institutional style sheet and Chicago Manual of Style. • Generated custom reports via SQL for scholarly inquiries. • Instituted new method of cataloging craft objects that refined queries and reporting. • Enrolled in professional development course: Proofreading & Editing. Show less

• Advanced-Level Program Intern

  • Sep 1995 - May 1996

  • Conducted research in American art history as Curatorial Intern (09–12/1995) for the exhibition, American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection. • Catalogued American art historical photographs as Registrar’s Office Intern (01–05/1996). • Attended workshops and seminars conducted by museum staff from various departments. • Conducted research in American art history as Curatorial Intern (09–12/1995) for the exhibition, American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection. • Catalogued American art historical photographs as Registrar’s Office Intern (01–05/1996). • Attended workshops and seminars conducted by museum staff from various departments.



Detroit Institute of Arts

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Museum Intern, Graphic Arts Department

  • Sep 1993 - Jun 1994

  • Retrieved and returned works on paper from storage. • Framed matted works for the exhibition, Thirty Years of Collecting Graphic Arts. • Retrieved and returned works on paper from storage. • Framed matted works for the exhibition, Thirty Years of Collecting Graphic Arts.