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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 Francisco de Goya's painting, Allegory of Industry, 1797-1802.

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the influence of the enlightenment.

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

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.