I teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in Art History and History. My courses address such topics as the interactions between art and science in the early modern period; visual and material culture in the Spanish Americas and early modern Europe; the history of Iberia, the Spanish Americas, and the Atlantic World; the history of colonialism, imperialism, and global exchanges; the history of collecting and display; the history of print, books, and reading; and the history of travel.

 

Undergraduate Courses

  • Arts of Latin America, Colonial to Contemporary (100-level General Education)
    Spring 2023 syllabus
  • Curating a Book Exhibition: Art and Science in Early Modern Books, 1450–1800 (100-level General Education)
    Fall 2022 syllabus
  • Curating a Book Exhibition: The Changing History of the Aztec Past (100-level General Education)
    Fall 2021 syllabus
  • Rethinking the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to the Study of Museums (400-level)
    Spring 2022 syllabus
  • Cultural Encounters in the Age of Exploration (100-level)
  • The Common Languages of Science and Art, 1500–1800 (100-level)
  • How to Look at a Work of Art (first-year seminar, site-based)
  • Visual and Material Culture in Colonial Latin America (400-level)
  • Visual Culture and European Imperialism, 1500–1800 (400-level)
  • Visual and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (400-level)
  • Art Across Cultures: Europe and Asia, 1500–1800 (400-level)
  • Seminar in Early Modern Studies (400-level)
  • History of the Book and Reading (400-level)

Undergraduate Teaching Abroad

  • Co-Director, USC Summer Program in Madrid, 2011
  • Director, USC Summer Program in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, 2010

Graduate Courses

  • Collecting the World: A History of the “Global” Museum
    Spring 2020 syllabus
  • Colonial Latin American Art and Visual Culture
  • Early Modern European History
  • Cultural Encounter and the Category of Art (2013–2014 Getty Research Institute Consortium Seminar)
  • Problems in the History of Collecting and Display: Collecting across Cultures (at the Getty Research Institute)
  • Categories of Collecting: Print (at the Getty Research Institute)
  • Visual and Material Cultures in the Early Modern Atlantic (co-taught with Peter Mancall, at the Huntington Library)
  • Seeing Science and Technology on the Move, 1500–present (co-taught with Vanessa Schwartz, at the Huntington Library)
  • Image / Word / Object: Rethinking the History of Books and Reading (co-taught with Deborah Harkness, at the Huntington Library
  • Visions of New World Nature (at the Huntington Library)