RESEARCH

Committed to Collaborative Coalitions about

Manuscripts, Medievalisms, Museums, and

Queer and Trans Visual Traditions

I am grateful to live and work on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and current homelands of the Tongva (Gabrieleno), Cahuilla, Payómkawichum (Luiseño), Serrano, and numerous other Indigenous peoples. In all of my research, I consider what is at stake to study, teach, and write about premodern European art and history while on Native lands. I recognize the responsibility I have to unlearn colonialist narratives and practices, to learn continually about the land and peoples around me, and to model the importance of relationship and coalition building with my students, colleagues, and family.

Exhibitions and publications to date address a range of topics, including early globalities of illuminated manuscripts and printed books, Italian choir book illumination, medievalisms and fantasy fandoms, and queer and trans visual traditions in medieval and renaissance art. I am a proponent of social media for engaging with audiences, fandoms, publics, and students about all topics in the history of art.

An ongoing collaborative study of racism and prejudice in museums examines the Instagram account @ChangeTheMuseum and museum plans for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility / Anti-Racism (IDEAA). Our methodology utilizes Quantitative Ethnography (QE) and Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) to propose policy change.