Research Experience, Scholarship, & Knowledge Areas

2024

+ Arabella D. Huntington life & biography

  • Institutional archives/libraries consulted (In order of visitation): The Hispanic Society of America, (New York, N.Y.)

  • Related subjects: American Gilded Age wealth, C19 railroad industry, transcontinental railroads, Victorian culture, early American art history & art scholarship, C19 American collectors

2023

+ Arabella D. Huntington life & biography

  • Institutional archives/libraries consulted (In order of visitation): The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino Historical Society (San Marino, C.A.) ; San Marcos Public Library (San Marcos, T.X.), San Marcos Historical Society (San Marcos, T.X.); Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center (Syracuse, N.Y.); Huntington Memorial Library (Oneonta, N.Y.); The Hispanic Society of America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library (Digital); Newport News Mariner’s Museum (Newport News, V.A.); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, V.A.); The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

  • Related subjects: American Gilded Age wealth, C19 railroad industry, transcontinental railroads, Victorian culture, early American art history & art scholarship, C19 American collectors

2022

+ Arabella D. Huntington life & biography

+ In Pursuit of Historical Character Conservation: A Critical Exploration of Collections & Narratives in Homes-Become-Museums

  • Institutional archives/libraries consulted (In order of visitation): Sir John Soane’s Museum (London, U.K.); The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino Historical Society (San Marino, C.A.); The University of Edinburgh libraries (Edinburgh, U.K.)

  • Related subjects: Architectural conservation, heritage interpretation & management, house museums, museological practices, Sir John Soane’s Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, California history, origins of art collections, history of interior design

+ Conservation practices surrounding The Harvard Art Museums/The Fogg Museum

+ Serpentine/Sinusoidal/“Crinkle-Crankle” Wall construction

  • Related subjects: History of masonry construction, trigonometry for engineering, lime mortar formulas, brick-laying techniques

2021

+ A Technological Survey of the William Adam Mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh

  • Related subjects: Diagnosing stone pathology, material behavior of sandstone construction in Scotland, historic Scottish construction, conservation recommendations, maintenance plans

+ Lumber price fluctuations in the interior design & home building industry

  • Related subjects: COVID-19 supply chain delays, commodities, lumber industry

2019

+ Veritatis speciem. José de Ribera’s Allegories of Sight

  • Institutional archives/libraries consulted (In order of visitation): Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain); Sevilla (Spain); State Archives of Naples, Certosa e Museo di San Martino (Naples, Italy); Villa i Tatti (Florence, Italy); Harvard University libraries (Cambridge, M.A.); Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, U.K.)

  • Related subjects: Spanish Golden Age painting, Early Modern culture, Early Modern scientific practices, Baroque art, Renaissance art, art historical scholarship, Spanish/Italian geopolitics in C17

2018

+ José de Ribera

  • Related subjects: Truth & deceit in Spanish Golden Age painting, cabinets of curiosity, Early Modern science, Diego Velázquez

2017

+ Baroque painting

  • Related subjects: Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci

+ Baroque formal gardens at French chateaus in the Loire Valley

  • Related subjects: C17 French formal gardens, C17 English garden traditions, Versailles

+ Salvador Dalí and the Surrealist Movement

  • Institutional archives/libraries consulted (In order of visitation): The Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center

  • Related subjects: Surrealism, André Breton