Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Hstory of Art

M.A. The Ohio State University, History of Art

B.A. Wright State University, Art History and Classics

National Endowment for Humanities Italy Institute

Humanities Institute Study in Greece

Executive Leadership Institute

ART 2140 Themes in Visual Culture

ART 2430 Non-Western Art

Sometimes UH 2010 Honors

My research interests are various.

Curated The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life for the Dayton Art Institute, created podcast, wrote didactic materials and labels, 26,100 people attended

Project Director for  Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman: The Holocaust Project at Sinclair Community College (Ohio Humanities Council grant)

Created web courses for ART 2430 ( Non-Western Art) and ART 2140 (Themes in Visual Cuture) at Wright State University; for Art Appreciation at National Louis University; for African Art, The Business of Art, Educating for Life, and the History of Photography at Sinclair Community College.

Created video courses on Art Appreciation and the History of Women Artists for Sinclair Community College.

Accreditaation Visitor for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design

Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Culture Works

Acquisitions Committee, Dayton Art Institute

Board Member, The Art Gallery at Cross Pointe

Dissertation Title: Donatello's Putti: Their Genesis, Importance, and Influence on Quattrocento Sculpture and Painting, The Ohio State University, 1992.

• “The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life,” Dayton Art Institute Members’ Quarterly ( Fall, 2007)

• “Greek Poet Sappho Dies,” Great Events in History: The Ancient World, Salem Press (2004)
• “Callicrates,” “Crete,” “Antonia the Younger,” “Antonia the Elder,” in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Salem Press (2000)

• “Animal Symbolism and the Seven Deadly Sins in the Art of Hieronymus Bosch,“ Profane Arts, Paris (1996)
• Photograph of Michelangelo’s David published in The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe: Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization), University of Michigan Press, 1995.
• “Scientific Aspects of Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings,” ERIC Database (1995)
• "Albrecht Durer's Knight, Death and the Devil," Wright State University's Chimera (1980)

National Association of Schools of Art and Design

Dayton Art Institute

Culture Works

Life Member Wright State University Alumni

Life Member Ohio State University Alumni

Selected Awards

• Professor Emeritus at Sinclair Community College (2015) https://www.sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/professor-emeritus/
• Inducted as an honorary member of Alpha Lambda Delta at Wright State University. Alpha Lambda Delta is a US national honor society that honors the academic excellence of college freshmen. I was nominated because I was identified by fall 2014 first-year students as integral to their academic success at Wright State. (2015) http://nationalald.org/
• Innovation of the Year Award, League for Innovation in the Community College, Part of a team of five Sinclair Faculty, “Adjunct Faculty Certification Course.” (2011)

http://www.league.org/league/competitions/innovations/display/?ioy=2011

• Wright State University Art and Art History Department’s Distinguished Alumna (2004)
• Wright State University Honors Program’s Distinguished Alumna (2003)
• Who’s Who of American Teachers (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• Faculty of the Year Award, Capital University Adult Degree Program (1995, 1992)
• Southwestern Ohio Consortium for Higher Education (SOCHE) Teaching Excellence Award (1995)
• National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) National Teaching Excellence Award (1995)
• “Up and Comers” Award, Dayton Ohio (1993)