Education
2000, Ph.D., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1994 & 1996, Attended Summer Institute in Western American Studies, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
1987, M.A., Art History, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1984-1987, Attended Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
1976, M.S., Zoology, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
1974, B.A., Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina


Teaching Experience
2003-Present, Furman University, Greenville, SC
History and Appreciation of Art; Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries; Ideas in the Arts; American Art

2002, Furman University, Greenville, SC
History and Appreciation of Art

2001-2003, Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC
Art History and Criticism; Art Appreciation

1996, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV
Art Appreciation

1995, Florida State University -- London Study Abroad Program
Art; Architecture; and Artistic Vision

1992-1994, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Art History and Criticism

1990-1991, City Colleges of Chicago - Europe (Berlin, Germany)
Art Appreciation; General Biology; Library Skills; Math Refresher; Medical Terminology

1989-1991, University of Maryland - European Division (Berlin, Germany)
History of Art; Early Medieval Art; Concepts of Biology; Human Biology; Introduction to Marine Biology; Introduction to Physical Science; Population Biology and General Ecology; Transitional Mathematics

1982-1984, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Art History and Criticism/Survey


Museum and Exhibition Experience
2007, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Exhibition of women patrons of Native American art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

2006, Special Collections, James B. Duke Library, Furman University
Curated the exhibition Cultural Broker in Bonnets: Jane B. Evans, Florence, South Carolina.

1997-1998, Fine Arts Gallery and Museum, Florida State University
Curated section on Joseph Henry Sharp for exhibition Dimensions of Native America.

1996, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Researched Joseph Henry Sharp’s monotypes relative to monotypes in the museum’s permanent collection.

1994, Fine Arts Gallery and Museum, Florida State University
Researched western American art to accompany the museum’s education programs in regard to objects in the permanent collection.

1993, Appleton Museum, Ocala, Florida
Researched nineteenth-century French bronze statuettes from a private collection to be exhibited at the Appleton Museum.

1992, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Researched Etruscan mirrors for ongoing Etruscan studies at Florida State University.


Archaeological Field Experience
Summer 1993
Unit Supervisor, Archaeological excavation of an Etruscan/Roman site in Cetamura, Italy


Publications
Forthcoming
"Joseph Henry Sharp: Father of the Taos Art Colony," chapter for Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc., publication The Taos Society of Artists.

2005
Book Review of Remington's Schuyler's West: Artistic Vision of Cowboys and Indians, Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2005, Vol. 25(3): 132 - 133.

"Why Some Things Matter," Photography: Painting:: Terri Bright:Michael Brodeur Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, S.C., 2005.

2001
Book Review of Peter H. Hassrick's The American West: Out of Myth into Reality, North Dakota History, 2001 vol. 68(2): 38-39.

1998
"The Search for the 'Real Indian': Joseph Henry Sharp and the Issue of Authenticity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," in Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 1998: 96-112.

"Addie Sharp: A Forgotten Figure of the Turn of the Century West," Points West, Summer 1998: 18-19.

1996
"Joseph Henry Sharp's Monotypes: On the Cutting Edge," Buffalo Bill Historical Center News, Fall 1996: 6-7.

1995
"Frederic Remington Creator of American Icons," Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery and Museum Collections Handbook, 1995: 3-12.

"I am to Endure in Bronze: Frederic Remington," Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery and Museum Collections Handbook, 1995; 14-18.

"August Macke and Native American Imagery," Athanor, Vol. 13, 1995: 71-77.

1980
William J. Tiffany III, William H. Luer, and Marie A. Watkins, "Intracellular and Intraluminal Aspects of Renal Calculosis in the Marine Mollusk Macrocalista nimbosa," Investigative Urology, Vol. 18(2), Sept. 1980: 139-143.

1979
Averett S. Tombes and Marie W. Foster, "Growth and Development of the Appendix Masculina in Macrobrachium rosenbergii," Crustaceana, Suppl. 5, 1979:
179-184.


Papers and Panels
2006
"South by Southwest: Jane B. Evans and the Founding of the Florence, South Carolina Museum," Southwestern Art History Conference, October 2006, Taos, NM.

"The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp," CIWAS Presentation Series, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, August 2006, Cody, WY.

"Joseph Henry Sharp's Glimpses of Transformation in Native America," Southwest Popular Culture Association, February 2006, Albuquerque, NM.

2005
"Joseph Henry Sharp's Recognition of the 'Indian Problem': Imagery of Assimilation," Southwest Art History Conference, October 2005, Taos, NM.

"Joseph Henry Sharp: Acknowledging and Denying the Moral Dilemma of the American Indian," Southwest Popular Culture Association, February 2005, Albuquerque, NM.

2004
Panelist, "The Da Vinci Code Uncovered," Greenville County Museum of Art,
October 2004, Greenville, SC.

"Joseph G. Butler, Jr.'s Indian Gallery" Creating Culture and Constructing History," American Culture Association, April 2004, San Antonio, TX.

Panel Chair, ACS/Women's Gender Studies Conference, "Against Representation: Preforming Gender in the Visual Arts," March 2004, Furman University, Greenville, SC.

2000
"Joseph Henry Sharp: Images of the American West," Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, November 2000, Wilmington, NC.

1995
"Frederic Remington: Creator of American Icons," Appleton Symposiu, April 1995, Tallahassee, FL.

1994
"August Macke and Native American Imagery" Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Flordia State University, Spring 1994, Tallahassee, FL.

1976
"Growth and Development of the Crustacean Macrobrachium rosenbergii," Southern Zoological Conference, Spring 1976, New Orleans, LA


Awards, Grants, and Funding
2006
Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

Cody Institute of Western American Studies Resident Fellowship, Cody, WY

The Year of the Humanities Fund, The Humanities Development Fund, the James B. Duke Library and the Furman University Art Department for the Exhibition Cultural Broker in Bonnets: Jane B. Evans, Florence, South Carolina, Furman University

2005
Scholar in Residence, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

2004, Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

1998, Short-Term Research Grant, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1997, Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1996, Scholarship, Summer Institue in Western American Studies Buffalo Bill Historial Center, Cody, WY

1994, Scholarship, Summer Institue in Western American Studies Buffalo Bill Historial Center, Cody, WY

1992-1994, Appleton Fellowship, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1984-1987, Exchange Fellowship, Tulane University and Freie Universität/ Berlin, Germany

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