EDUCATION                   Ph.D., Art History
                                            Rutgers University, NJ, October 1997
                                            Qualifying Examination passed with Distinction,
                                            Dissertation: "Titian's Mirror: Self- Portrait and Self-Image 
                                                                in the Late Works."

                                            M.A., Art History
                                            Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1994
                                            Thesis: "Iconography of Titian's Flaying of Marsyas."

                                            B.A., Art History
                                            Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
                                            cum laude, May 1991 

LANGUAGES                    Czech, English (fluent) 
                                            Italian (working speech)
                                            French, German, Russian (reading)

SPECIALIZATION           Italian Renaissance art, 1250 - 1600
                                            Secondary fields in Northern Renaissance and Baroque

ACADEMIC                      Assistant Professor Art Department, Murray State University, KY
POSITIONS                       August 1999 - present
                                                Ancient Art to Baroque Art

                                            Visiting Professor  Art Department, Murray State University, KY
                                            August 1998 - May 1999
                                                Introduction to Art History 120(Prehistoric - Present)
                                                Ancient and Medieval Art 215
                                                Late Medieval Art 415
                                                Introduction to Art History 120 (Prehistoric to Present)
                                                Honors Seminar in Visual Arts
                                                Renaissance Art 418

                                            Instructor
                                            Art History Department, Rutgers University, NJ
                                            January - May 1998
                                                Introduction to Art History (1300 - present)

                                            Instructor
                                            Art History Department, Rutgers University, NJ
                                            September - December 1997
                                                Venice (ca.1250 - 1600)

                                            Instructor
                                            Rutgers University Summer Abroad,
                                            Urbino, Italy
                                            July - August 1996
                                                Masaccio and His Contemporaries (1300 - 1500)
                                                The High Renaissance in Italy (1470 - 1576)

                                            Instructor
                                            Rutgers University Summer Abroad, 
                                            Constance, Germany
                                            July - August 1995
                                                Romanesque and Gothic, Art and Architecture in Germany (800 - 1500)
                                                Renaissance to Modern, Art and Architecture in Germany (1500 - 1984)

                                            Preceptor
                                            Princeton University, NJ
                                            September 1995 - January 1996
                                                Survey of Italian Renaissance Art

                                            Teaching Assistant
                                            Art History Department, Rutgers University, NJ
                                            September 1993 - May 1995
                                                Survey of Art History from Antiquity to Present

ADMINISTRATIVE        Assistant Curator
POSITIONS                      Visual Resources Collection 
                                            Art History Department, Rutgers University, NJ
                                            May 1995 - October 1997

PUBLICATIONS              Co-author, "Interview with Marylin Aronberg Lavin," 
                                            Rutgers Art Review, 14 (1994), 53-69.

                                            Contributor, Artists' Bibliographies,
                                            John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, 1997

                                            "Spiritual Message in Titian's Pieta
                                            Submitted for publication in Art Bulletin

                                            "Ancient and Medieval Sources of Renaissance Décapité Portraiture"
                                            Work in progress

LECTURES                       "Religion and Art"
                                            Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ
                                            November 1997

FELLOWSHIPS                Walter C. Russell Scholarship, 
AND AWARDS                 Rutgers University, NJ
                                            1991 - 1992

                                            Graduate Scholar Award, 
                                            Rutgers University, NJ
                                            1991 - 1993

                                            Technology Grant
                                            Summer 1999

PROFESSIONAL             Co-Editor
ACTIVITIES                     Rutgers Art Review 14 (1994)

                                            President
                                            Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Organization 
                                            1992 - 1994

                                            Member of CAA   1989 - present