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.

Paper closely examines images and text in Mexico of To-day by Solomon Bulkley Griffin and discusses how the book demonstrates the United States' attitude towards Mexico during the late nineteenth century.

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.

Paper explores why the United States, and in particular Texas, does not begin requiring foreign language education until high school.

Paper examines the state of standards and legislation for handling restitution claims for artworks looting from victims during the Holocaust.

Paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism.

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 argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.

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.

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

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.