Select Awards and Accomplishments

Honors: 

• 2015: Crenson-Hertz Award for Community Based Learning and Participatory Research, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

• 2013:Best Article Prize, Early Modern Women Journal, for “The Politics of Marriage in Carpaccio’s St. Ursula Cycle”

• 2013: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service, JHU

• 2009: Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, JHU (finalist in 2017) 

Fellowships, Research Grants, and Funded Seminars/Workshops:

• 2018: Visiting Fellow, Bard Graduate Center, New York City

• 2014: “The Structures of Art,” Samuel H. Kress Foundation Summer Teachers’ Institute in Technical Art History, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

• 2010: “Re-Mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Europe and Islam,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland

• 2009: “Making Objects Speak,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop, John Jay College, City University of New York

• 2007: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant for Independent Research in Venice

• 1993: Fellowship in History of Cartography, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center, Newberry Library, Chicago

• 1992–93, Fulbright USIA Fellowship to Italy

Fundraising: As founding director of the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University, I raised over $1,000,000 to support curricular and program development, including:

• 2011-2018: Primary Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon  Foundation (2 grants)

• 2012-14: Co-investigator, Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Educational Resources, JHU

• 2008-09: JHU Arts Innovation Grants (4)

• 2007-08: JHU Technology Fellowships (2), Center for Educational Resources