This paper discusses research on American quilts and women's political engagement.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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".

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

Paper discusses how Candy Jernigan Blood of a Vagrant uses the mixture of text, photography, and collage to explore remembrance of a subject that could otherwise remain anonymous.

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.

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.

Text component of a doctoral dissertation, which references the full dissertation content in a multi-media web-based format. It includes a background statement, acknowledgements section, printed navigation guide and site map for the website, and a full list of references.

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Award for 2013. This paper discusses Nazi-era art restitution. The author examines the unique history of the World War II art plunder and the dilemma and issues that heirs and museums face.

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.

Presentation for the 2013 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), and the use of mirrors to symbolize the harmonization of the subject with its true self throughout his work.

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.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on paintings by Francisco de Goya.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on Francisco de Goya's series, "Los Caprichos."

This paper discusses research on the use of photography in colonial India.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on Francisco de Goya's painting, 'Allegory of Industry', 1797-1802.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the eighteenth century worker and Francisco de Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the influence of enlightenment.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on Francisco de Goya and his artistically recorded evolving definitions of madness that preoccupied the eighteenth-century.