Selected Presentations & Appearances
Sailing Stones: The Practice of Stereotomy Across the Medieval Mediterranean
· June 18, 2026
International Meeting or Conference
European Architectural History Network,
Aarhus University
Fissures, fractures, splits, and gaps
- Architecture in Rising: Building Sites in Europe, c. 1400–1700
· June 4, 2026
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of Cambridge
Stereotomy
· March 24, 2025
Invited Talk
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Stereotomy in Cairo and the Islamic Mediterranean, 11th-16th centuries
· February 12, 2025
Invited Talk
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
“Une maison pour me loger”: The Luxembourg Palace and the Accidents of History
· June 6, 2024
Invited Talk
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
· October 17, 2023
Invited Talk
Archaeological Institute of America,
Davidson College
Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
· December 8, 2022
Invited Talk
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Eleonora de Toledo and Maria de' Medici: From the Boboli Gardens to the Luxembourg Palace
· November 15, 2022
Invited Talk
New York University in Florence
Philibert de L’Orme’s Dome in the Chapel of the Château d’Anet: The Role of Stereotomy
· October 22, 2022
Invited Talk
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)
Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
· June 15, 2022
Invited Talk
Columbia University
Inaugural lecture
- First Annual International Women in the Arts Conference
· October 20, 2021
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of Arkansas in Rome
Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
· October 14, 2021
Invited Talk
Explorers Club
Philibert de L'Orme
- 63rd Course on Palladian Architecture
· October 7, 2021
Invited Talk
Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Palladio Museum
The Paris of Maria de’ Medici
· March 18, 2021
Invited Talk
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich
Philibert de L’Orme’s theory of stereotomy in the Premier tome de l’architecture
- Thinking 3D: Architecture & Audience
· September 27, 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Worcester College, Oxford University
Paris of Waters
- Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO), Cairo
· May 3, 2019
Invited Talk
Paris of Waters
- John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
· February 7, 2019
Invited Talk
Duke University
Stereotomy: a Mediterranean History
· October 29, 2018
Invited Talk
Vanderbilt University
Paired Models: Comparing Domestic Typologies Between Italy and France
- The Digital Serlio Project Symposium
· October 19, 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Columbia University
Stereotomy: A Mediterranean History
- Society of Architectural Historians, Annual International Conference
· April 20, 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Saint Paul, MN
Mapping Stereotomy: Vaulting in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean
- Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
· April 7, 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University
Notes sur la stéréotomie de Philibert de L'Orme
· April 15, 2016
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA)
Paris of Waters
- Hacking de l’hôtel de Ville
· March 24, 2016
Invited Talk
City Hall, Paris, France
Stereotomy in Philibert de L'Orme's Premier tome de l'architecture (1567)
· March 22, 2016
Invited Talk
Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris
Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631
· January 5, 2016
Invited Talk
Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris
Practice into Theory: Philibert de L'Orme and the Premier tome de l’architecture (1567)
· December 10, 2015
Invited Talk
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich
Thomas Langford Lecture
· November 10, 2015
Invited Talk
Duke University
Anet: architecture de papier et architecture bâtie
- Le château d’Anet, fleuron de la Renaissance française
· June 15, 2015
International Meeting or Conference
Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR)
Il palazzo del Lussemburgo di Maria de’ Medici, 1611–1631
· November 20, 2014
International Meeting or Conference
Universidad de Granada
Relations between France and Florence during the time of the Medici queens
· October 16, 2014
International Meeting or Conference
Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference,
New Orleans, LA
Building by the Book? Theory as Practice in Renaissance Architecture
· June 19, 2014
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
European Architectural History Network Annual International Conference,
Turin, Italy
Panel co-chaired with Prof. Francesco Benelli (Columbia University)
Philibert Delorme at the Château d’Anet: form, structure, and the profession of architecture in sixteenth-century France
· March 27, 2014
International Meeting or Conference
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
New York, NY
Writing the Luxembourg Palace
· October 25, 2013
Invited Talk
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Achronicity and Anachronism in Philibert Delorme’s Premier tome de l’architecture (1567)
· March 21, 2013
International Meeting or Conference
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philibert Delorme's Divines Proportions
· January 25, 2013
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA)
Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis
· January 24, 2013
Invited Talk
Sénat de la République française, Paris
Pictures (Un)Fit for a Queen? Power Politics and Rubens’s Life of Maria de’ Medici
· March 8, 2012
International Meeting or Conference
New College Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Sarasota, FL
Philibert de L’Orme’s Divine Proportions and the Composition of the Premier tome de l’Architecture (1567)
· March 17, 2011
International Meeting or Conference
University of Leiden
The Royal Gallery at the Time of Henri IV: Architecture and Ceremonial
· November 20, 2010
Invited Talk
Musée du Louvre, Paris
"Hanno fatto il diavolo per cercare di porvi qualche garbuglio": Rubens and the Court of France, 1622-1631
· April 8, 2010
Invited Talk
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Venice, Italy
Medici Women and Notions of Power: Image, Performance, and Design
· March 19, 2009
International Meeting or Conference
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Los Angeles, CA
Ceremonial and the Use of Space in Early Modern France: the Court of Maria de’ Medici
· December 12, 2008
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
European University Institute (EUI)
The Paris of Maria de’ Medici: Architecture and Urban Planning
· October 15, 2008
Invited Talk
Harvard University center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti
The Production of Space in Seventeenth-Century France
· March 1, 2008
Invited Talk
Duke University
Le Luxembourg: un palais imprimé, de Marot à Blondel
· February 11, 2008
Invited Talk
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Ceremonial and the Use of Space in Early Modern France: the Court of Maria de’ Medici
· March 22, 2007
International Meeting or Conference
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Miami, FL
Les galeries du palais du Luxembourg
- La galerie en France: étude d’un espace intérieur
· May 19, 2006
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA)
Pitti a Parigi ? Metamorfosi di un modello architettonico al seguito di Maria de’ Medici
· May 12, 2006
International Meeting or Conference
École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
Le chantier à la Renaissance: l’église Saint-Nicolas de Troyes,1524–1608
· May 19, 2005
Invited Talk
Centre troyen de recherches et d’études Pierre et Nicolas Pithou, Troyes, France
Maria de’ Medici and Seventeenth-Century Paris
· March 15, 2004
Invited Talk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Le Luxembourg: un palais-mémorial?
· April 25, 2003
Invited Talk
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
L’architecture religieuse de la Renaissance Troyenne
· June 30, 2001
International Meeting or Conference
International conference in the History of Architecture. Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance (CESR)
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Team Leader - Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus
· 2020
- 2021
Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present
· 2019
- 2020
Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present
· 2018
- 2019
Projects & Field Work
Primary Theme: Information, Society & Culture
Building Duke is a new three-year initiative that will be implemented in three phases: data collection and organizing (first year); data analysis and interpretation (second year); data output (third year). It will explore the conception, design and construction of the Duke University campus as well as its changes and expansions. Principal aims are to offer an historical narrative of the physical environment that the Duke community inhabits and to explore the desires and visions that have materialized in the making of the campus. This project is especially relevant at a cultural and political moment when physical space and its historical connotations are at the center of a heated public debate. The three-year initiative will culminate in a relational database of textual and visual archival material on the architectural history of Duke campus; an interactive digital 3D model of campus developments since the 1920s; a series of multimedia thematic narratives on history of the campus; and a series of augmented reality tours.
Service to the Profession
Peer reviewer
·
2025
Editorial Activities
French Studies
Peer reviewer
·
2024
Editorial Activities
Construction History. International Journal of the Construction History Society
External evaluator for tenure dossier
·
2024
Committee Service
Columbia University
Peer reviewer
·
2022
Editorial Activities
Opus Incertum
External evaluator for tenure dossier
·
2021
Other
Lebanese American University
Peer reviewer
·
2020
Editorial Activities
Opus Incertum
Peer reviewer
·
2019
Editorial Activities
Renaissance Quarterly
Evaluator for ERC Consolidator grants
·
2017
Committee Service
European Research Council Executive Agency
Peer reviewer
·
2017
Editorial Activities
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Editorial board member
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
·
2016
- 2028
Editorial Activities
Peer reviewer
·
2014
Editorial Activities
Annali di Architettura
Peer reviewer
·
2014
Editorial Activities
University of Toronto Press
Peer reviewer
·
2010
- 2024
Editorial Activities
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Peer reviewer
·
2009
Editorial Activities
Art Bulletin
Service to Duke
Committee member for the reappointment of NTT faculty Stephen Hayes
(Department)
·
2024
Committee Service
Mentor for junior tenure-track faculty Andrew Griebeler
·
2024
- 2026
Professional Development
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Search committee for faculty hire in Early Modern/Atlantic Art History
(Department)
·
2024
- 2025
Committee Service
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
2030 Working Group, Reimagining Shared Governance
(University)
·
2021
Committee Service
2030 Library Steering Group
(University)
·
2021
Committee Service
2030 Faculty Team
(University)
·
2020
- 2021
Committee Service
Chair of committee for the tenure of junior faculty Susanna Caviglia
(Department)
·
2020
Committee Service
Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Teaching evaluator for junior NTT faculty Kristin Huffman
·
2019
Professional Development
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Teaching evaluator for junior NTT faculty Ed Triplett
·
2018
Professional Development
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Academic Programs Committee
(University)
·
2018
- 2021
Committee Service
Teaching evaluator for junior NTT faculty Kristin Huffman
·
2018
Professional Development
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Curricular liaison for AAHVS
·
2018
- 2019
Curriculum Innovations
Chair of committee for the reappointment of junior tenure-track faculty Susanna Caviglia
(Department)
·
2018
- 2019
Committee Service
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Visiting speakers' series
(Department)
·
2017
- 2019
Committee Service
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Mentor for junior tenure-track faculty Susanna Caviglia
·
2017
- 2020
Professional Development
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
·
2017
- 2017
Other
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Executive committee
(Center)
·
2017
- 2019
Committee Service
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Search committee for faculty hire in the Arts of the Black Atlantic
(Department)
·
2014
- 2015
Committee Service
Art, Art History & Visual Studies + AAAS
Director of Graduate Studies
·
2013
- 2016
Other
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Member of the Academic Council
·
2012
- 2014
Other
Executive committee, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
(Center)
·
2012
- 2015
Committee Service
Committee on faculty research
(School)
·
2012
- 2015
Committee Service
Arts & Sciences
Organizer
. Graduation with Distinction Colloquium
·
2011
Event/Organization Administration
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Organizer
. Graduation with Distinction Colloquium
·
2010
Event/Organization Administration
Art, art History & Visual Studies
Library liaison
·
2010
- 2011
Other
Art, Art History & Visual Studies