Publications

MONOGRAPH

1. Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Manchester University Press, 2023.

   • Winner of the 2024 Oskar Halecki Award in Polish and East-Central European History from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)

   • Reviewed by: Sabine Jagodzinski, H-Soz-Kult, 10 September 2024; Moshe Rosman, Slavic Review 83, no. 3 (2024): 591–597.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. "Locating the Material: Prussian Carved Ambers, Place Ambiguity, and a New Geography of Central European Art." German History 41, no. 3 (2023): 444–471.

2. "Rethinking the So-Called Polish Carpets." Journal of Art Historiography, no. 28 (2023): 1–16.

3. "Doublethink: Polish Carpets in Transcultural Contexts." The Art Bulletin 104, no. 3 (2022): 29–54.

   • Awarded the 2023 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association (CAA)

4. "Close Others: Poles in the Visual Imaginary of Early Modern Amsterdam." Slavonic and East European Review 98, no. 4 (2020): 654–689.

   • Awarded the 2021 Emerging Scholars Prize from the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)

   • Received an honourable mention in the 2022 ESSA Article Prize from the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)

5. "Michał Boym, the Sum Xu, and the Reappearing Image." Journal of Early Modern History 23, no. 2/3 (2019): 296–324. 

   • Received an honourable mention in the 2020 ESSA Article Prize from the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)

   • Received an honourable mention in the 2020 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize from the Association of Print Scholars (APS)

6. "Foreign as Native: Baltic Amber in Florence." World Art 7, no. 1 (2017): 3–36. 

   • Awarded the 2018 Emerging Scholars Publication Prize from the Historians of German, Scandinavian and Central European Art (HGSCEA)

7. "Connoisseurship from Below: Art Collecting and Participatory Politics in Poland-Lithuania, 1587–1648." Journal of the History of Collections 29, no. 2 (2017): 209–226.

8. "Between Sacred and Profane: Devotional Space, the Picture Gallery, and the Ambiguous Image in Poland-Lithuania." Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 64, no. 4 (2015): 521–542. 

9. "Going Global? An Attempt to Challenge the Peripheral Position of Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Painting in the Historiography of Art." The Polish Review 57, no. 4 (2012): 3–26.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

1. "Hyphenated Provenience: Ottoman, Safavid, and Rus’ian Carpets in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania." Early Modern East-Central Europe from Transcultural Perspectives, ed. Veronika Čapská. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

2. "Sigismund III of Poland, Persian Carpets, and the Pitfalls of Provenience." In The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, ed. Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras, 233–252. New York: Routledge, 2024.

3. "Sarmatia Revisited: Maps and the Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." In Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis, 113–135. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

4. "Uprooting Origins: Polish-Lithuanian Art and the Challenge of Pluralism." In Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present, ed. Beáta Hock and Anu Allas, 25–38. New York: Routledge, 2018.

5. "From the Site of Presence to the Medium of Representation, and Beyond: The Fluid Epistemology of Imagery in Post-Reformation Poland-Lithuania." In Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe, ed. Torrance Kirby and Matthew Milner, 85–118. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. "Art of Renaissance Poland-Lithuania" (with Olga M. Hajduk). In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0540. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

2. "Prussian Amber." In Routledge Resources Online: The Renaissance World. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW107-1. New York: Routledge, 2023.

3. "Early Modern Cosmopolitanism?" In Making Worlds: Art, Materiality and Early Modern Globalisation. https://www.makinggreenworlds.net/cosmopolitanism (last modified 24 April 2016).

ROUNDTABLES AND INTERVIEWS

1. "Globalising Early Modern Central and Eastern European Art: A Discussion Forum," co-edited with Robyn Radway, with contributions from Robert Born, Tomasz Grusiecki, Suzanna Ivanič, Ruth Sargent Noyes, Olenka Pevny, and Robyn Radway. Art East Central 2, no. 2 (2022): 11–47.

2. "Revisiting the Region: A Debate on Art History in Eastern Europe," with contributions from Mathilde Arnoux, Anna Baumgartner, Katja Bernhardt, Robert Born, Tomasz Grusiecki, and Antje Kempe. kunsttexte.de/ostblick, no. 1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.48633/ksttx.2022.1.88236.

3. "Interview with Tomasz Grusiecki." Polish Studies Center 2020 Newsletter / 2015–2020 Retrospective, Indiana University (2020): 11–16.

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Review of Maniera Greca in Europe's Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s-1720s), by Giedrė Mickūnaitė. European History Quarterly, forthcoming.

2. Review of Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe, by Nancy S. Kollmann. The Russian Review, early view published 21 Jan 2025.

3. Review of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame, by Richard Butterwick. Renaissance and Reformation 47, no. 3 (2024): 222–225.

4. Review of Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity, by Rachel King. Sehepunkte 23, no. 6 (2023), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2023/06/37555.html.

5. Review of Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century, by Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves. Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 1 (2021): 292–294.

6. Review of The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720, by Kristoffer Neville. Renaissance and Reformation 43, no. 2 (2020): 399–401.

7. Review of The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga, by Kevin C. O’Connor. The Russian Review 79, no. 4 (2020): 667–669.

8. Review of Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, by Aleksandra Koutny-Jones. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 66, no. 2 (2017): 248–249.