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")
• 565 Proseminar in Material Culture (Topics: The Art of Light in Early Modern Anglo-America)
• 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")
• 865 Seminar (Topic: "Vernacular Arts: Outsider/Folk/Arts of the Edge" )
  

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) Book Awards: Hagley Award, Best annual book in business history, Business History Association, 2009. Fred Kniffen Award, Best book in North American material culture from the Pioneer America Society, Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes, 2008.
	Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820 from the Chipstone Collection (Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1999).
	Editor, American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997)
Guest editor, Material Culture in Early America in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, LIII, no. 1 (January 1996)
"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.)