Title
Professor of Art and Art History; Director of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts (1991; 2005); Associate Dean of the Faculty (2004-2005)

Degree
BS Denison University 1971; MS, MA, PhD Syracuse University 1975, 1981, 1991

Teaching Experience
Syracuse University; Florida State University (Florence, Italy)

Selected Publications
Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-1940 (2007)
Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings (editor) (1997); Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century (1994)
“A Community Art Center for Harlem: The Cultural Politics of “Negro Art” Initiatives, 1920-1937,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 29 (2004)
“Harmon Foundation” and “Art Criticism and the Harlem Renaissance,” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Routledge Reference, 2004)
"Alain Locke and American Art Criticism," American Art 18 (Spring 2004)
"Recovery and Reclamation: A Continuing Project," (contribution to "Commentary: Writing African-American Art History"), American Art 17 (Spring 2003)
"Seeing the Harlem Renaissance: Observations on the Position of Visual Art in Harlem Renaissance Studies," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002)
"African American Printmaking: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond." In Life Impressions: 20th Century African American Prints from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University (2001)
"Modernism, Visual Culture and the Harlem Renaissance," Paideuma 29 (Winter 2000), reprinted in Ezra Pound and African American Modernism (2001)
"African American Art and Critical Discourse Between World Wars," American Quarterly 51 (September 1999), reprinted in The Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion, Volume 1, (2003)
"Bernard Berenson," The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1998)
"Modernity as Professional Liability: Bernard Berenson and America," Archives of American Art Journal 36 (1996)
"The 'protean acrobat of painters' and the 'ostentation of the obvious': Bernard Berenson on Picasso and Cubism," Archives of American Art Journal 34 (1994)
"Understanding American Art: Works on Paper," The Picker Art Gallery Journal (1992-1993)
"Winslow Homer's Visits to Virginia During Reconstruction," The American Art Journal 12 (Winter 1980).

Distinctions
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2005; Syracuse University Doctoral Prize 1992