EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph.D., Art History, 2000 (Modern and African Art). Dissertation:Unfinished Works and Aural Histories: Yoko Ono's Conceptual Art. M.A. thesis (1998): Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964): A Reconsideration.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A., Art History, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Kappa Phi, 1983. Honors thesis: Phonograph Records Made by Visual Artists.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OR DEVELOPMENT:
The University of Akron, Academic Leadership Forum, cohort IV, 2008-2009
The University of Akron, Scholarship of Teaching, Assessment, and Learning Fellow, cohort II, 2002-2003.