Current research includes eye movement studies to determine culture-based correlates of aesthetic perception; building information modeling software as a means of reconstructing defunct architectural forms; the rhetoric of the architectural capriccio in 18th-century history painting; the cognitive science of spatial affect and its applications to sustainability features in residential and commercial architectural design. Following a two-year Samuel H. Kress Foundation dissertation research fellowship at the Courtauld Institute, London, and a summer residency at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, earned PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. Beyond current research, interests include the forms of and variables contributing to visual and spatial literacies and the roles of image, object and structure in the formation of modern imperial identities.
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