Articles

“Samplers, Gentility, and the Middling Sort,” Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 40:4 (Winter 2005): 219-48. 

“The Mask of Civility: Portraits of Colonial Women and the Transatlantic Masquerade,” American Art 23:3 (Fall 2009): 8-35.  Celebrated as a landmark article for the 30th anniversary issue of American Art. 

“George Washington’s Dentures: Disability, Deception, and the Republican Body,” Early American Studies 14:1 (Winter 2016): 2-47.

“‘The Dark Iconoclast’: African Americans’ Artistic Resistance in the Civil War,” The Art Bulletin 99:4 (December 2017): 129-63. Winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s inaugural Director’s Essay Prize 2019 (biennial award for leading research by… Read More »‘The Dark Iconoclast’: African Americans’ Artistic Resistance in the Civil War

“Material Culture in the 18th Century,” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Ed., Jon Butler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014–. Article published March 25, 2021.  

“Dancing in the Flames: Early American Andirons,” American Art  35:1 (Spring 2021): 9-15.

“Remapping Resistance: The Place of Slavery in The Washington Family,” in “Perspectives: On Edward Savage’s The Washington Family,” American Art 35: 3 (Fall 2021): 15-25.

“Seeing Flora’s Silhouette as Portrait,” co-authored with Phillip Troutman, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 8:1 (June 2022)