EDUCATION
Ph.D. Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
Dissertation: Developing an Iconography of the Episcopacy: Liturgical Portraiture and Episcopal Politics in Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Manuscripts
Director: Dorothy Verkerk
Committee: Jaroslav Folda, Elizabeth Lipsmeyer, Elizabeth McLachlan, Mary Pardo and Kathryn Starkey

M.A. Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
Thesis: Reading the Heavens: An Eschatological Interpretation of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Ascension of Christ on the Quedlinburg Portable Altar.
Director: Dorothy Verkerk

B.A. Art History and Studio Art, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, 1994

Studies Abroad Program in Art and Art History, University of Georgia at Cortona, Italy, 1993

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Elon University, 2006 - present
Full-Time Instructor in Art, Furman University, 2003-2004
Part-Time Instructor in Art, Furman University, 2001-2002, 2002-2003
Kress Intern, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2000-2001
Gallery Director, Coleman Fine Art and Restoration. Charleston, South Carolina, 1995-1996

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Classes taught regularly (Elon University):
Gods & Emperors: Art & History I
Cathedrals to Conquest: Art & History II
Italy's Heritage: Past is Present (taught abroad)
Methodologies of Art History
Senior Seminar in Art HIstory

Special Topics Courses (Elon University):
Ornament & Idolatry: Arts and the Islamic World
African Art: HIstory & Exhibition
Contact & Conflict: Arts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Course Taught Previously:
Art & History: Prehistory to the Middle Ages (Fall 2005-Spring 2007, Elon University)
Art & History: Renaissance to Contemporary ( Fall 2005, Elon University)
Non-Western Art & History (Spring 2006, Elon University)
The History and Appreciation of Western Art (taught regularly at Furman University)
Arts of the Ancient World (Fall 2003, Furman University)
African and Pre-Columbian Art (Spring 2003, Furman University)
Arts of the Medieval World (Spring 2004, Furman University)
Art Criticism and Theory (Winter 2004, Furman University)
Celtic Art and Cultures (Summer 2000. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Art from Prehistory to the Renaissance - Online (Spring 1999. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Teaching Assistant
Introduction to the History of Architecture (Spring 2000. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Art from Prehistory to the Renaissance (Fall 1999. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Non-Western Art History (Fall 1994. University of Florida, Gainesville)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Books
Sigrd Danielson and Evan A. Gatti, eds. Image and the Episcopacy: A Miscellany on the Image and the Bishop in the Middle Ages, in progress for Brepols Publishers.

In A Space Between: Borders and Bishops around the year 1000, in progress.

Journals
Guest editor, Peregrinations: A Journal for the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, vol. 3 no. 1 (2010). http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol3_1/current.html.

"In a Space Between: Ivrea and the Problem of (Italian) Ottonian Art", Peregrinations: A Journal for the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, vol. 3 no. 1 (2010). http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol3_1/current.html.

“Building the Body of the Church: A Bishop's Blessing in the Benedictional of Engilmar of Parenzo,” The Bishop Re-formed : Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, (Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West), Edited by John S. Ott and Anna E. Trumbore, Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate, 2007.

"Reviving the Relic: An Investigation of the Form and Function of the Reliquary of St. Servatius, Quedlinburg," The Athanor XVIII, 2000, 7-15.

Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Review, "Furman University in Greenville, SC, Features Works by Bob Chance" Carolina Arts Online, November Issue 2003.

Scholarly Presentations and Panels
“A Bishop’s Blessing on the Border or In-between: The Frontispiece in the Benedictional of Engilmar,” Bishop Saints and Saintly Bishops, sponsored by Hagiotheca and the Hagiography Society, Porec, Croatia, May 27-30, 2010.

“Images on the Edge and About the Center: “Ottonian” Art in Northern Italy” in Art History on the Edge: Art and Architecture in the Provinces of the Medieval World(s) International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13.

"Iconography of the Episcopacy: Bishops and/in the Image," with Diane J. Reilly, Indiana University, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 13th, 2009, respondent.

"Codex, Church, and Charter: Bishops as Patrons in the Middle Ages," International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9th, 2009, moderator.

"Lost in the Attic: Medieval Frescoes from Northern Italy” Family Weekend at Elon University, September 27th 2008.

"In a Space Between: Fragmentary Frescoes at Aosta and the Problem of the Middle Ages" delivered at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11th 2008.

"A Romanesque Church, a Roman Floor, Ottonian Murals and a Renaissance Ceiling: Mixed Messages and Modern Meanings at Aosta," International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 2007.

“Medieval Secrets in Modern Italy,” guest lecture, Greenville, South Carolina for Elon University’s Board of Visitors, November 1, 2008.

“Slide Projector, Data Projector, ARTstor, and More?: Rethinking Pedagogical Practice and Technology Talk” (co-Presented with Todd A. Nicolet), Teaching and Transformation: Transforming students, transforming campuses, transforming ourselves (Innovation in Instruction Conference) Elon University, North Carolina, August 16th, 2007.

“Architecture’s Narratives: Spaces and the Stories They Tell.” Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville, TN. October 26, 2006, coordinator.

"Space and Spirituality: Public and Private Aspects of Liturgical Celebration," South Eastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Little Rock, Arkansas, October 28, 2005.

Guest Lecture, University of North Carolina at Asheville, April 20, 2005.

“A Roundtable Discussion on Gender in the Visual Arts,” ACS Women's/Gender Studies Conference, Furman University, 2004, organizer and moderator.

"Ecclesia and the Episcopacy: Liturgical Politics and the Portraiture of Sigebert of Minden," Middle Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, April 3, 2004.

"Episcopal Sanctity and Earthly Authority: A Study in Liturgical Portraiture from Saints' Lives to Sacramentaries,"International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 16, 2003.

"Act and Ideology: Liturgical Performance and Episcopal Politics in Medieval Dedication Miniatures," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2003.

"Episcopal Authorities in Liturgical Portraiture from Ottonian Manuscript Illumination," North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, sponsored jointly by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, February 23, 2002.

"Portraiture as Politics in the Sacramentary of Warmundus di Ivrea," Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), in Columbia, South Carolina, October 26, 2001.

"Seeing and Believing: Looking at Religious Art from the Medieval to the Early Modern Era,"North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 22, 2001.

"Reading the Heavens: An Eschatological Interpretation of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Ascension of Christ on the Quedlinburg Portable Altar," The Graduate Student Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 27, 1998.
 
"A Journey into Xibalba: The Meso-American Ballgame," Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, March, 1995.

ACADEMIC SERVICE
Elon University
General Studies Program Review, 2009-2011

Chair, subcommittee for amendments to the teacher-scholar statement, appointed by Academic Council, Fall 2008

Search Committee, Executive Director of Cultural Programs and Academic Events, Fall 2008

Co-Chair, Visual Culture Group, 2008-present

Presidential Task Force for Scholarship, 2007-present

General Studies Committee, 2007-present

Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Board, 2007-present

Middle Eastern Studies Committee, 2007-present

Classical Studies Committee, 2007-present

HONORS AND AWARDS
Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University, Summer 2009

Hultquist Award for New Faculty Research, Elon University, Summer 2007

Dissertation Completion Grant, Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-2005

Joseph C. Sloane Fund for Dissertation Research, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002

DAAD Language Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 2001

Vivian and John Dixon Award in Art and Religion, Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2002

Kress Fellowship, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2000-2001

Merit-based Assistantships, Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000

Gunther P. Stamm Award for Excellence, Graduate Symposium, Florida State University, 1998

Merit-based Assistantship, Graduate School of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fall 1994

Glen E. Howerton Award for the Outstanding Senior Art Major, Furman University, 1994

Christian A. Johnson Honor Scholarship, Furman University, 1990-1994

Glen U. Boyles Studio Scholarship, Furman University, 1991-1992, 1993-1994

Irene Hendricks Keith Studio Scholarship, Furman University, 1992-1993