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

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

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the political rhetoric of American quilts and research into the validity of women's participation in American social politics.

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing Man Ray's photographic series, "Noire et blanche" from 1926.

This paper discusses research on Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche' photographic series that features a female model and an African mask. This paper advances beyond the too often superficially noted formal similarities and contrasts between the representations of the woman and the mask to identify cultural connections between the representations of the woman and the mask to identify cultural connections between them involving sexual and racial "Otherness".

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the National Geographic's representation of women in Islam.

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on photography in colonial and postcolonial India as an agent of cultural dominance.

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.

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

This paper discusses research on the recruitment of women via the medium of posters during World War Two (1941-1945).