Curriculum Vitae

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Ph.D.  University of California, Irvine, 2009

Dissertation Title: “The Pop Apocalyptic: Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf’s 

Remaking of Contemporary Religious Art”

Advisor: Cécile Whiting

M.A. University of California, Irvine, 2003

Dissertation Title: “The Radiant (Christ) Child: Keith Haring’s Transformations 

of the Iconography and Ideals of the Jesus Movement,”

Advisor: David Joselit

B.A. University of the Pacific, 2000

Major: Art History Minor: Religious Studies

Graduated summa cum laude

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY

2009-present 

(Assistant Professor: 2009-2015, Associate Professor 2015-present) 

Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 

Affiliate Faculty, Women’s Gender Studies

Affiliate Research Faculty, African American Studies

Courses Taught include: 

Survey of Art, Introduction to Art, Introduction to Art (online), Contemporary Art, Modern Art, Feminist Art History, Pop Art, Monster Movies: Art and Fear, Pop Art: A Global History, Graduate Seminar in Art History, Art in Italy: Summer Study Abroad (2015), Italian Art and Architecture (2015)

ADJUNCT FACULTY

2004-2009 

Marymount College, Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Courses Taught include:

Art Appreciation, Survey of Asian Art, Chinese Art, Japanese Art, Indian Art, World Architecture, Egyptian Art and Architecture, London Study Abroad (2009), Egypt Study Abroad (2007)

TEACHING ASSOCIATE

2002-2004 

University of California, Irvine

Courses Taught include: 

Survey of Western Art, Chinese Art, Japanese Art

BOOKS

· Phillips, Natalie and Grant Hamming, eds. Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism. Forthcoming book from Routledge, to be published in fall 2024.

ARTICLES

· “Edel Rodriguez Takes on Donald Trump: The Time Magazine Covers.” Full-length article to be included in Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism. Forthcoming book from Routledge, to be published in fall 2024. 

· “Wholly Ghost: Richard Hambleton and the Traces of Violence.” Full-length academic article currently under review.

· “Anthony Stellaccio: Drink from the River.” Ceramics Monthly (April 2015): 52-54.

· “Monuments to the Mundane: A Tour of the Midwest’s Unusual Roadside Attractions.” Interdisciplinary Humanities (Summer 2014): 128-47.

· “A Nuclear Rapture: The Apocalyptic Art of Kenny Scharf.” Religion and the Arts 17 (2013): 74-97. 

· “Parades and Events: The Works of Ned Griner: 1968-1983.” Metalsmith 31 no. 5: (2013): 54. 

· “The Radiant (Christ) Child: Keith Haring and the Jesus Movement.” American Art 21 no. 3 (Fall 2007): 54-73.

· “Carl Beetz: Reflections of California Life.” In Carl Beetz, a Catalogue Raisonné. Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, 2000.

CATALOGUES

· “Sky Kim and the Multiverse.” New York: Chase Contemporary, 2022: 6-7. 

· “Ball State University School of Art: Fostering Dialogue and Collaboration,” with Davira S. Taragin. SOFA Chicago, 2017.

· “To Belie the Dragonfly: Elisabeth Subrin’s Rhetoric of Silence” in Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art. Shenyang, China: Women’s Caucus for Art and the LuXun Academy of Fine Arts, 2014.

· “Negotiating Distance: A Neon Invitational.” In Negotiating Distance: A Neon Invitational. Atrium Gallery, 2014: pages 4-20.

· “The Echo of the Object: Interview with Participants.” In The Echo of the Object. The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design (Wrocław, Poland) and Downtown Gallery (Nashville, Tn.), 2013.

BOOK REVIEWS

· “The Bob Ross Experience” (review), The Public Historian 43 no. 4 (November 2021): 106-112.

· “Book Review: Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence.” By Vincent Sherry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 287.” Nineteenth Century Studies (Dec. 2016).

· “Book Review: Esanu, Octavian, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: Collective Actions Before and After 1989.” Interdisciplinary Humanities (Fall 2016).

· “Exhibition Review: Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity.” Art Review (China) 3 (Summer 2015): 247-53.

· “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” SECAC Review XVI No. 4 (2014): 515-18.

· “Review: In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States.” In Woman’s Art Journal vol. 33 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2012): 53-55.

· “Exhibition Review: ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective” Art Review 2 (Autumn 2013): 243-49.

· “Book Review: Harpring, Patricia, Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Technology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works.” Interdisciplinary Humanities(Spring 2014): 116-119.

· “Book Review: The Future of Feminism by Sylvia Walby.” Artlines (Women’s Caucus for Art): Fall 2011, page 8. 

OTHER

· “Judy Chicago: Retrospective in a Box,” wall label for the David Owsley Museum of Art, “20/20: Twenty Women Artists of the Twentieth Century” exhibition, fall 2020. 

· “East Village Art Scene.” Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 2019. 

· “Keith Haring.” Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 2019. 

· Wrote and revised the online test and quiz banks for Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Concise History, 3rd edition. 

· “Third Wave-Feminist Art.” The Indiana N.O.W. Quarterly. Spring 2012: page 1+.

· “Second Wave-Feminist Art.” The Indiana N.O.W. Quarterly. Winter 2012: page 1+. 

· “First Wave-Feminist Art.” The Indiana N.O.W. Quarterly. Fall 2011: pages 2 and 6.

EDITORIAL ROLES

· Co-Editor of Art Review (China). Sichuan University, China (2009-2018).

· Founding editor of Octopus: A Journal of Visual Culture. University of California, Irvine: 2003-2007.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

· “Re-Writing the Black Canon: Basquiat, the Catalogue, and its Omissions,” forthcoming article, expected completion in 2024.

· Acts of Resistance: The Defiant Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, forthcoming book project, expected completion in 2025.

· The Pop Apocalyptic: Pop Art and the Anxieties of the Atomic Age and Beyond, forthcoming book project, early stages.

INTERNATIONAL

· The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. “My Mouth/Therefore an Error: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Modes of Resistance.” Approaching Downtown: Avant-Garde Cultural Production in New York City, 1970s-1990s. An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Centre for American Art. July 11-14, 2022

· The Tate Liverpool. “The Pop Apocalypse: The Continuing Legacy of Keith Haring’s Apocalyptic Creations,” at “Keith Haring: Art and Activism” conference, Nov. 7-8, 2019

· Museé d’Arts Contemporain, Montreal. “A Nuclear Rapture: Kenny Scharf’s Apocalyptic Art.” Paper presented at “Art + Religion,” April 15-17, 2010

NATIONAL

· “Victims of Embellished History: Basquiat and the Catalogue.” College Art Association Conference, Chicago, Feb. 2024. 

· “Basquiat and The Art of Noise.” Southeastern College Art Association Conference, Richmond, VA, October 2023. 

· “Richard Hambleton and the Traces of Violence.” College Art Association, New York, Feb. 2023. 

· “Art History Professionalization Panel.” Invited talk at the University of Notre Dame, March 22, 2016

· “Bridging the Gap: Art History for Animation Majors.” Mid-American College Art Association Conference (MACAA), Cincinnati, OH, Oct 26-28, 2016

· “Looking and Learning at the David Owsley Museum of Art: Effective Strategies for Incorporating the Museum into University Education.” Panel chair, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Biennial Conference, March, 2015, Indianapolis, In. 

· “The Changing Face of Portraiture.” Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Biennial Conference, March, 2015, Indianapolis, In. 

· “Incorporating the Museum into University Teaching.” Mid-America College Art Association’s Annual Conference, Oct. 22-25, 2014

· “The Pop Apocalyptic: Pop Art and the Atomic Bomb.” Humanities Education and Research Center Conference, Feb. 27-March 1, 2014, Washington D.C.

· “Monuments to the Mundane: A Tour of the Midwest’s Unusual Roadside Attractions.” Humanities Education and Research Center Conference, March 20-23, 2013, Houston, Texas

· “Pain as Medium: The Performances of Chris Burden, Fakir Musafar, Bob Flanagan and Orlan,” SECAC Conference, Durham, North Carolina, Oct. 18-20, 2012

· “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?: Existential and Practical Tips for Planning a Successful Study Abroad Experience.” Co-chair of panel, Mid-America College Art Association’s Annual Conference, Oct. 2-6, 2012 

· “Basquiat’s Minor Language.” Midwest Art History Society’s Annual Conference, March 29-31, 2012

· “Conflicting Identities: The Construction of Artemisia Gentileschi in Recent Biographical Narratives”. The Art of Gender in Everyday Life at Idaho State University, March 2004 and “Feminist Locations” in Savannah Georgia, April 2004

· “Sanitizing Shit: Contradiction and Confrontation in the Art of Chris Ofili”. The Black Body: Imagining, Writing (Re)Writing at DePaul University, Chicago, April 2004

· “Multiple Masochisms: Embodiment and Pain in Masochistic and Sadistic Cinema”. The Ends of Violence: Detonations of Vision at the University of California, Irvine, April 2004

· Conference Coordinator, Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture, University of California, Irvine, April 10-12, 2003

REGIONAL

· “Centering Black Narratives in Contemporary Art.” Midwest Regional African American Studies Biennial Conference, February 2024. 

· “The Vore Arts Fund: A New Paradigm for Community Arts Funding” with Graham Watson, Mid-American College Art Association Virtual Conference, March 2024. 

· “Place/Displacement: Negotiating Identity and Belonging in the Midwest.” 6th Annual Midwestern Women Artists Symposium, October 2023. 

· “Engaging the Local Community through Art Events and Programming,” with Natalie Phillips, Erin Williams, and Kristin Reeves, Indiana Arts Homecoming, October 14, 2021. Virtual talk.

· “The March to More Merch! Pop Art, Merchandising, and Consumer Culture,” The David Owsley Museum of Art, March 10, 2021. Virtual talk. 

· Pecha Kucha Presenter, “The History of Groundhog Day,” Final Fridays at the David Owsley Museum of Art, June 26, 2020

· “’My Kid Could Do That!’ Understanding (and Teaching!) Contemporary Art,” a workshop/symposium for secondary school teachers, Arts Place Portland, Feb. 22, 2017

· Vore Arts Fund, Vice-President, a non-profit public arts fund for local Muncie artists, 2019-present.

· Muncie’s First Thursday Gallery Walks, Coordinator, 2016-present.

· Sloan’s Auction, Washington D.C., Fine Arts Department Assistant, 2000-01.

· The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Curatorial Records and Files Intern, 2000.

· The University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, Art History Research Assistant, 2000.

· Carl Beetz: Reflections of California Life, a Catalogue Raisonné, Author, Collaborator, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1999-2001. 

· The Smithsonian Institution, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., Intern for Curator of Painting, 1999.

· The Haggin Museum, Registrar Intern, Stockton, California, 1999.

· The McCaffrey Center Gallery, Assistant Director, The University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1997-98.

· Wagner Grant Recipient, Ball State University. Awarded funding to update my Contemporary Art class and attend Art Basel in Miami, December 2023. 

· Diversity Associates Program Fellowship, Ball State University, 2021-2022.

· Fellow for the Antiracism and Intersectionality Faculty Learning Community, Ball State University, 2020-2021.

· NEH Summer Stipend Finalist, Ball State University 2019.

· Scholarship winner, Indiana Arts Homecoming, Fort Wayne, IN, 2018. 

· Ball State University ASPIRE award for my book on Basquiat, $5000, Summer 2018.

· Diversity Research Associate Fellowship at Ball State University, 2017-18.

· Diversity Research Award, from Ball State University’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Spring 2016 and 2018.

· Winner, Half the Sky Essay Competition, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, 2014. 

· Finalist, Half the Sky Delegate Competition, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Spring 2014. 

· Summer Teacher’s Institute in Technical Art History Fellowship, Yale University, 2013

· Robin Shikiya Memorial Award for Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2005-06

· Humanities Graduate Student Individual Research Project Grant from the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine, 2007

· Summer Dissertation Fellowship from the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine, 2006

· Graduate Student Research Grant in the Humanities from the Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine, 2006

· University of California, Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant from the Humanities Center, 2004

· Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the Dept. of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine, 2002

· Council Of Readers, College Art Association, 2024-present· AP Art History Exam Grader, 2021-present.

· Advisory Panel, Indiana Arts Commission, Individual Advancement Program, 2020. 

· Co-Coordinator, Artswalk, Muncie, IN 2018-present

· Art Show Juror, New Castle Correctional Facility, 2018-present. 

· Member of the Steering Committee for the Indiana Arts Homecoming, a conference organized by the Indiana Arts Commission, 2018-2020.

· Exhibitions Board Member, Arts Place, Portland, Indiana, 2017- present.

· Peer Reviewer for: Art Journal, Routledge, Cognella

· Textbook reviewer for Oxford University Press, Thames and Hudson, OC&C Consultants, Prentice Hall, and Pearson (ongoing)

· Mock Interviewer, CAA Conference, 2014, Chicago.

· Member of the Development Project Committee for Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History, 3rd edition (2011). 

· Chair Person, Young Women’s Caucus for Art (2010). 

American Mensa

College Art Association (CAA)

Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA)

Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC)

Phi Kappa Phi: The National Honor Society