Resume

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, CO

M.A. in Art History, December, 1992.

Thesis under Erika Doss: "Indian Paintings of E. Irving Couse: The Return of the Noble Savage." Extensive course work in 19th and 20th century European and American art and in American history and cultural studies.

Ph.D. in Geology, 1984

Specialization in volcanology and the chemistry of volcanic rocks as a means to determine the chemistry of the Earth's interior.

HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, 1972 CLAREMONT, CA

B.S. in Chemistry (with Distinction and Departmental Honors)

Minor concentration in anthropology. Research with Mitsuru Kubota, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, resulted in the publication of a kinetic study.

EMPLOYMENT

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

Lecturer in Art 2005–2006
Lecturer in Geology 2007–2012

Courses Taught in Art

• Introduction to Art (ART 111) 2005
• Art History: Ancient to Renaissance (ART 211) 2005
• Art History: Renaissance through Baroque (ART 212)2005-2006

Courses Taught in Geology

• Earthquakes (GEOL 205) 2007
• Introduction to Geology (GEOL 102) 2008-2012
• Physical Geology (GEOL 201) 2008-2010
• Physical Geology Lab (GEOL 241) 2008

CUESTA COLLEGE SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

Instructor in Art

Art Appreciation (Art 100) 2004–2005

ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE SANTA MARIA, CA

Instructor in Geology

Physical Geology (GEOL 100) 2004

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK, NY

Lecturer on International Tours:

• Australia’s Kimberley, upcoming September, 2013
• Along the Silk Road in Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) April, 2013
• Islands and Sanctuaries of the Gods (Delphi, Olympia, Kithara, Crete, Santorini, Siphnos) May, 2012
• New Zealand, Dynamic Geology and Unique Ecology February, 2012
• Around the World: Peru, Easter Island, Samoa, Australia, Cambodia, India, Tanzania, Egypt and Morocco October, 2011
• Seville to Venice (Spain, France and Italy) May, 2011
• The Light of Greece: Greece (Athens, Epidauros, Mycenae, Crete, Rhodes September, 2010
  Santorini, Mykonos, Samos); Turkey (Ephesus, Aphrodisias, Troy, Istanbul)
• The Venetian Empire: Venice, Croatia, Greece, Turkey June, 2010
• Fabled Islands of the Mediterranean: Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica May, 2010
• Enchanting Seas: Sicily, Albania, Croatia, Ravenna and Venice April, 2009
• Around the World: Peru, Easter Island, Australia, Cambodia, China, Tibet, India, Tanzania, Egypt, Morocco October,2008
• Fire and Ice: Japan, Kuril Islands, Kamchatka June, 2008
• Circumnavigation of Sicily May, 2007
• Silk Road by rail: Russia,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and China October, 2006
• Venice and the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia August, 2005
• Early Man in France, Spain and Portugal June, 2005
• Circumnavigation of Sicily October, 2004
• Copper Canyon, Mexico May, 2003
• England, Ireland and Scotland June, 2003
• Norway and Svalbard July, 2003
• Circumnavigation of Iceland August, 2003
• Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney July, 2002
• Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Island and Hudson’s Bay August, 2001
• The Great Lakes, Niagara Falls and the Saint Lawrence Seaway June, 2001

THE COLORADO COLLEGE, 1977-2004 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

Visiting Professor of Art

Professor of Geology

Courses Taught in Art

Survey of Western Art (AH 112) 2002–2004
Art of Exclusion (AH 114) 1992–1996
American Art (AH 248) 2001-2003

Courses Taught in American Ethnic Studies

Introduction to American Ethnic Studies (ES 185) 1996–1998

Courses Taught in the Geology Department 1977-1998

Introductory Geology (GY 130)
Physical Geology (GY 140)
Mineralogy and Crystallography (GY 201)
Introduction to Petrology (GY 202)
Volcanology (GY 230) in Hawaii and Costa Rica
Geochemistry (GY 335)

Other College Service

Curator, Rod Rhodes Retrospective, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College 1990
Curator, History of Building and Planning at Colorado College, Coburn Gallery 1995
Organized a two-day symposium on Asian-American issues for 1994
the American Ethnic Studies Faculty
Faculty co-facilitator, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Minority Concerns Committee
Academic Program Committee
Campus Master Planning Executive Committee
Geology Department Chair, responsible for budget, staffing and curriculum
Director, Keck Geology Consortium Research Program at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Led two alumni raft trips through the Grand Canyon

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN ART

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The construction of race, the origins of thinking in racial categories, and race and representation in American Art, including that of African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Americans and Latino/as.

I am particularly interested in the juxtaposition of images of “others” created and imposed by Euro-American artists with self-representations by artists of color as they assert their own identities, and in the dynamics of creating an identity in opposition to widely-held cultural stereotypes. I am also interested in the manipulation of sexuality in the representation of “others.”

The construction of sexuality and masculinity, and the representation of sexuality and the body in American Art. I am particularly interested the America’s conflicted approach to the body and sex, and in the complicated, and often controversial place of figurative art in America.