I was trained as an historian of Renaissance art, focusing on manuscript and printed maps deployed as diplomatic gifts between Italy and the Ottoman empire. While my dissertation research investigated Italian printmaking and cartography in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, my interests span wide chronological and geographic boundaries to include the relationship between the histories of science, art, and ideology across Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in the reception and negotiation of artistic technologies, including printing and mapping, between early modern Christian and Islamic societies. I am presently engaged in research on the representation of race, ethnicity and religion in sixteenth-century Italian art, especially in the work of the Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto. Examination of the implicit tensions between local history and frameworks of cultural interaction in early modern visual culture provides a unifying thread to this range of topics. My teaching interests include exploring the role of art as a cultural intermediary in the Mediterranean, the representation of race in the early modern world, and intersections of technology and visual culture, including printmaking, book production, and mapping in Northern and Southern Europe. The ideology of art historical practice also serves as a central focus of my teaching. I have taught undergraduate courses on the history of printed images and the role of cultural exchange in Renaissance art. I am currently in the process of revising my dissertation, “Cartography Between Cultures” for publication.