RESEARCH



Written Work & Presentations

Data and Bibliography for "Enslaved Labor and Cultural Capital: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Copley’s Colonial Patrons and Their Circum-Atlantic World" (with N. Elder)

Princeton University Press page for Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century

Review of Asma Naeem’s Out of Earshot for caa.reviews

The 2020 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture, American Folk Art Museum, January 2020

“Used Cars and Canvases: Information Economics, Art History, and the Art Market” in (American Art, Fall 2019)

“When Data Meet the Archive: Earl Shinn and Sample Bias” in (Archives of American Art Journal, Spring 2019)

“Pop without Pretense: Mass Media and the Art of James Castle,” Works In Progress Lecture, December 3rd, 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

“Arts and Culture” (with Karol Jan Borowiecki) in the Handbook of Cliometrics, Second Edition, edited by Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert, Springer Reference (2018)

Modernization and rural imagery at the Paris Salon: an interdisciplinary approach to the economic history of art (The Economic History Review,Early View) [There is a working version of the article available for free here]

Colleague Collectors: A Statistical Analysis of Artists’ Collecting Networks in Nineteenth-Century New York (Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Spring 2018)

The Big Picture: Thomas Moran’s The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone and the Development of the American West (Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 2015)

“The Demand for Peasants: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salons, 1831-1881” in The Paris Fine Art Salon/Le Salon, 1791–1881, Ed. James Kearns & Alister Mill (Peter Lang, 2015)



Conferences Organized or Other Projects

Coding our Collection: The National Gallery of Art Datathon, October 2019 (press release about the event here)

Women at Wadham: Past, Present & Future, A Documentary Film, debuted June 2015

“Genius for Sale! Artistic Production and Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century,” a conference at Wolfson College, Oxford on May 8th 2014

Arts & Econ, a website dedicated to research at the intersection of art and economics, started May 2014

Connections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (recorded with Curator of Drawings and Prints George Goldner), Summer 2010