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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 research on photography in colonial and postcolonial India as an agent of cultural dominance.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 Francisco de Goya and his artistically recorded evolving definitions of madness that preoccupied the eighteenth-century.

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