STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo Alto, CA Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA PhD, History of Art & Architecture

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, London, England Postgraduate Diploma in the History of Art

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY, Kingston, ON, Canada BA, Honours (History & Art History) and MA (Art History)

DESIGN TOOLS	Adobe CC, ArcGIS, Figma.
WEB DEVELOPMENT	WordPress, basic HTML & CSS, Timeline JS.
OTHER SOFTWARE	MS Office, Google Suite, ArcGIS FieldMaps and Survey123, Audacity.

Most of these publications are in peer-reviewed books and journals.

Edited Books

Guest editor with Lisa Pon, of “Printing Matters: The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe,” Word & Image, vol. 17, nos. 1-2 (2001). Read the introduction to this book-length collection of conference proceedings here.

Contributions to Books

“Observing Birk’s Method,” in Sandow Birk, The Depravities of War. Grand Central Press, Santa Ana California and Hui Press Publications, Makawao, Maui, Hawai’i, 2007, pp. 72-74.

“The Graham Larkin-David Horowitz Debate,” comprising reprints of online exchanges, in Stephen H. Aby, ed, The Academic Bill of Rights Debate: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007, pp. 67-90.

“The Unfinished Eighteenth Century” in Michael Cole and Madeleine Viljoen (eds.), The Early Modern Painter-Etcher (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), pp. 75-83.

“On the Advantages of Nietzsche for Garden History,” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 20, no. 1 (2000), pp. 1-5.

Exhibition Catalogues

Lines of Inquiry: Ancien Régime Book Illustration from the Department of Printing & Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Brochure for a Houghton Library exhibition of sixty books, 1998.

Entries on seventeen prints in French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers, ed. Sue Welsh Reed. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1998.

Entry on drawings by Daniel Rabel in Drawing Attention: Selected Works on Paper from the Renaissance to Modernism, ed. Katharine Lochnan, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008.

Entry on Bernini’s portrait of Urban VIII in Catherine Hess, (ed.), Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Canada, 2008, pp. 134-137.

Entry on work by Cristoforo Roncalli in From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, National Gallery of Canada, 2009.

Translations (from French)

Roger Chartier, afterword for the ‘Printing Matters’ proceedings, Word & Image, vol. 17, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 181-183.

Thierry Mariage, The World of André Le Nôtre (originally L’Univers de Le Nostre, 1990). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Includes glossary and index not present in the original publication.

Book and symposium reviews

Review of Henri-Jean Martin, La naissance du livre moderne: mise en page et mise en texte du livre français (XIV^e-XVII^e siècles), in Print Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4 (2001), pp. 472-74.

“Things Fall Apart: Graham Larkin on The Object in Transition,” ArtForum International vol. 46, no. 8 (April 2008), pp. 153-6, 390. (Review of a Getty conference on the preservation of recent art.)

Review of Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2015). 

Review of Franklin Vagnone and Deborah Ryan’s book Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2016) on the Small Museums Canada website. Listen to my interview with the authors here.

9/03-7/05	Stanford Humanities Fellowship, Stanford University
12/01	Kress Foundation grant (with Harvard University Art Museums)
9/01-89/03	Theodore Rousseau Fellowship, Harvard University (renewed)
9/00	Chester Dale Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington
3/99	NEA grant for restoring Stella’s Liberality (with Harvard University Art Museums)
11/98	M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund grant for Printing Matters symposium
6/98	Charles Eliot Norton Travelling Fellowship, Harvard University
1/98	Richard and Susan Smith Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University
10/97	Mellon II Dissertation Research Fellowship, Harvard University
5/97-12/98	Mellon Fellowship, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums
12/96	Richard and Susan Smith Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University
11/96	Publication Grant from the Graham Foundation (Chicago) for Mariage translation
10/96	Mellon I Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University
5/95-5/99	Graduate School of Arts and Science Grant, Harvard University
3/95-8/99	Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada

This list is a selection of invited lectures and workshops in the past 20 years. For recent media engagements (newspaper, radio, TV) see the selection listed here.

4/24	“The Origins of Fire Insurance Mapping in Europe and North America.” Presentation at the Sanborn Symposium, CSUN College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Northridge CA.
9/23	“Lessons from the Daylight Factory: Swanson & Peterson’s Furniture Works.” Presentation at Pasadena Heritage, Pasadena CA.
5/23	“Lessons from the Daylight Factory.” Presentation at the National Association of Environmental Professionals, Phoenix.
4/19	“Romantic writing in the manner of Jacques Callot.” Talk at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University at the invitation of Tom Conley.
6/18	Invited participant on the Complete Streets panel at the “Building a Better City” event, Westin Hotel, Ottawa.  Organized by The Globe and Mail and Dream Unlimited.
5/18	Invited speaker and panel participant on the Vulnerable Road Users session at the Canada Bikes National Bike Summit, Ottawa.
2/18	Lead speaker on the Vision Zero panel at the 124th Ontario Good Roads Association annual conference, Toronto.
11/17	“Advocating for True Vision Zero.” Workshop at the CycleNation UK conference in Oxford, England.
11/17	“The Book Arrives Too Late: A Fresh Look at McLuhan’s DEW Line Newsletter.” Talk at West Den Haag gallery, the Hague, NL.
8/17	“The Vision Zero Difference.” Scadding Community Centre, Toronto, ON.
8/17	Presentations and discussion on The Radicalism of “Vision Zero” Traffic Safety panel, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Annual Meeting, Toronto.
2/17	Presentation on Vision Zero Canada to the Centretown Citizens Community Association, Ottawa.
10/16	Presentation on traffic safety best practices at BudgetSpeak 2016, Ottawa City Hall.
6/16	“Mobilizing McLuhan”: Keynote talk at the Marshall McLuhan’s Media Practice symposium, University of Westminster Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, London (UK).
5/16	Organizer and main presenter at the Rosamond Woolworks Community Forum, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, ON.
4/16	Leader of the panel “To Tag or Not To Tag: Digitizing Personal Scrapbooks and Photo Albums” at the Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture (RASC/a) conference, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
4/13	“For Freest Action Form’d: A Plea for Experiential Education.” Keynote lecture at the Technologies of Experience conference, co-hosted by the Music and Art History departments at Indiana University.
3/13	School >> Makerspace. Presentation at the Dcentered [sic.] showcase, Museum of Nature, Ottawa on the invitation of PrototypeD principal Janak Alford.
11/11	Finally Getting the Message: McLuhan as Media Practitioner. Talk delivered at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and the Embassy of Canada to Germany, Berlin. Available at https://mcluhan.consortium.io/
11/11	In the McLuhan Clearinghouse· Talk delivered with Robert Fisher (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa) at the McLuhan 100 conference, University of Toronto.
5/10	Material Wit: McLuhan as Media Practitioner in the symposium Freeze Frame on Marshall McLuhan, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto.
2/10	Patrimony Foul and Fair: Addressing the Challenges of Provenance Research in Canada. Canadian Heritage Information Network Digital Heritage Symposium, Vancouver.
2/08	Between Map and View: Mongrelized Depictions in Early Modern Europe. Burke Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington.
4/05	Callot Again and Again. Paper at the Paper Museums conference, University of Chicago.
10/04	On Finesse. Art and Art History Department, Wesleyan University.
3/04	Collecting Callot and his Contemporaries. Milwaukee Museum of Art.
2/04	Construing the Oeuvre in Eighteenth-Century France. College Art Association conference, Seattle.
1/03	Unsettling Originality: The Sterile Genius of Jacques Callot. Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Montreal.
2/02	‘Cunning, Skill, Artificiallnesse’: Dexterity and Deceit in Early Modern Prints. College Art Association annual conference, Philadelphia.

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