On faculty since 1998.

Courses taught:

• 363 American Decorative Arts and Interiors: 1620-1840
• 464 Dimensions in Material Culture (with Prof. Jean Lee [History] and Virginia Boyd [ETD])
• 500 Proseminar (Topics: "Material Culture of Early America", "Decorative Arts & Material Culture of 18th-century America")
• 563 Proseminar in Material Culture (Topics: "Method & Theory")
• 600 Special Topics in Art History (Topics: "Arts of Cultural Blending, Race & Ethnicity in America", "Crafting an Exhibition: American Craftsmen and Consumers", "American Decorative Arts: Colonial and Federal Periods")
• 601/602 Introduction to Museum Studies I, II: "Reflecting Taste: 18th C. Furnishings and Portraits in America"
• 800 Seminar (Topics: "History of Ceramics & Allied Arts in America"; "Ceramics in America: Material Culture Analysis")
  

Related Websites:

• The Chipstone Foundation
• Material Culture at UW-Madison
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts & Material Culture, UW-Madison

	Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
	Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820 from the Chipstone Collection (Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1999).
Guest editor, Material Culture in Early America in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, LIII, no. 1 (January 1996)
Editor, American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997)
"Commercial Space as Consumption Arena: Retail Stores in Early Virginia," in People, Power, Places: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000)
"Magical, Mythical, Practical and Sublime: the Meanings and Uses of Ceramics in America", Ceramics in America, vol. 1, no.1 (2001)
“Ribbons of Desire: Gendered Stories in the World of Goods,” in Gender, Taste, and Material in Britain in America in the Long Eighteenth-century, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.)
“Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America,” in Furnishing the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge Press 2006.)