Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the special section on art history featured in the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2005 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Paper explores how text and diction used in eighteenth-century British print culture, specifically street ballads and court cases, acted as active agents of negative attitudes towards homosexuals, or "Mollies".

Paper explores the imagery and text coded with implications of the United States’ social dominance over Mexico in Hubert Howe Bancroft XVI's accounts of Texas history.

Introduction to the special section on art history featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.

This paper examines research on the significance of clothing, specifically, the "men's suit," in select examples of contemporary American performance art. Drawing on sociology and art history, it considers the suit as a form of communication, and it suggests that performance artists Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and Vanessa Beecroft have used the "men's suit" to explore and communicate something about masculinity as a socially and culturally constructed hegemony.

Paper examines the history of women printmakers from an interdisciplinary perspective, identifying printmaking as an area of the humanities, while arguing for the benefits of this perspective for future research on the topic.

This paper discusses research on the absence of Mary Magdalene in the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere, Rome. The author's research examines the social context throughout Rome during the medieval era, the status of prostitution, spatial analysis of Trastevere, and the inevitable entrance of promiscuity through the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere.

In this paper, the author gives an analysis of Francisco de Goya, arguing that the painter uses mirrors to symbolize harmonization of subject with its true self throughout his work.

This paper discusses research on the performance art of Alexander Brener.

Paper explores the biombo as an exemplary model of hybridity that consolidated European, Asian, and Latin American histories using a late 18th century example found in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Paper explores the relationship between artwork created during the Renaissance in Italy and in New Spain 150 years later.

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's painting, Allegory of Industry, 1797-1802.

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's series Los Caprichos. A semiotic analysis of Francisco de Goya's prints 'Todos Caeran' and 'Devota Profesion' examines how Goya modifies the medieval iconography of the siren, the owl, and the ass to embody immoral aspects of contemporary Spanish society.

This paper discusses Francisco de Goya. Employing Foucault's discourse to specific works reveals Goya's ability to represent visually the fundamental tension between Romantic and Classical ideas, especially the ambiguous line between reason and madness.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the absence of Mary Magdalene in the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere, Rome.

This paper presents research on Francisco de Goya. This research proves that the painting of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) from 1800 ('The Cannibals), and his paintings from 1820-1823 (The Black Paintings, 'Judith,' and 'Saturn,' and Miniature, 'Judith') represent changing ideas on decapitation of a monarch.

Paper examines the meaning of Christian church bells as a symbol of power in medieval Spain.

Paper discusses the 1937 National Socialist exhibition “Entartete Kunst,” (Degenerate Art) and the ways it influenced the German public’s perceptions of the art displayed, as well as the cultural memory of modern art in general.

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.

Paper examines the evolution and transformation of Buddhism in different cultures by focusing on the example of Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva traditionally depicted as a man who was eventually depicted as Kuan-yin, a woman, once fully transitioned into Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism.