Scholarship

• 2027The New Leisure: Amusement Parks and Automation in Postwar Americain pressTechnology and Culture
• Designing in Time: Duration, Vision, and the Conveyed Spectatorin pressJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians 86:1
• 2026The Complexities of the Present: Disneyland and the Limits of Universalismin pressArticulations
• Byzantium and the Far Right in the United Statesin pressInventing Heritage: The Politics of Medievalism, eds. Alexandra Vukovich and Milan Vukašinović (Penn State University Press, 2026), 191–202
• The Grounds of the Iconin pressWest 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 33:1
• Diversification and Exploitation: Amusement Parks, Television Networks, and the Motion Picture Studios in the 1950sin pressJournal of Cinema and Media Studies 66:1 (2026): 15–34
• The Atom and the Amoeba: The Aesthetics of the Research Report and the Cold War Think TankOctober 196 (2026): 95–120
• The Poetics of Unsettled Time: The Temporal Vertigo of the Theme ParkTexte zur Kunst 142 (2026): 98–107
• Cybernetic Amusement: Disneyland, Simulation, and the Logic of AutomationGrey Room 103 (2026): 36–69
• Experiencing ScriptureThe Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church, eds. Andrew Mellas and Bronwen Neil (Cambridge University Press, 2026), 292–312
• 2025The Case of Manuel I Komnenos: Articulating Identity through Gender, Sexuality, and RacializationIdentities in Antiquity, eds. Joseph Skinner, Vicky Manolopoulou, and Christina Tsouparopoulou (Routledge, 2025), 508–526
• 2024Reading Gender VarianceThe Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium, eds. Charis Messis and Mati Meyer (Routledge, 2024), 62–76
• Futures for Byzantine MaterialityByzantine Materiality (De Gruyter, 2024), 257–261
• Icon, Eucharist, Relic: Negotiating the Division of Sacred Matter in ByzantiumByzantine Materiality, eds. Evan Freeman and Roland Betancourt (De Gruyter, 2024), 193–234
• 2023Reflections on a Latinx Decolonial Praxis for MedievalistsThe Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, eds. Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor Black (Routledge, 2023), 482–492
• From Plane to Space: The Narrative Arc of a Byzantine Mathematical ManualThe Medieval Globe 8:2 (2023): 29–48, “Practices of Commentary,” eds. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Amanda Goodman
• Between Wonder and Omen: Conjoined Twins and the Mandylion from Constantinople to Norman SicilyGesta 62:1 (2023): 23–62
• Automata, Kineticism, and Automation: An Oblique History of Animacy in the Art of the Long 1960sL’art médiéval est-il contemporain? / Is Medieval Art Contemporary?, eds. Charlotte Denoël, Larisa Dryansky, Isabelle Marchesin, and Erik Verhagen (Brepols, 2023), 209–225
• Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary (with Ambereen Dadabhoy)Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World, eds. Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (ACMRS Press, 2023), 83–106 Author copy
• ForewordMichel Pastoureau, White: The History of a Color, trans. Jody Gladding (Princeton University Press, 2023)
• 2022The Colors of Metalworks: The Painted Materials of Machinery in ByzantiumIlluminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts, eds. Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon L. Wearing (De Gruyter, 2022), 157–184
• 2021Neon Byzantium: Aesthetics without Iconography in Las Vegasİstanbul’da bu ne Bizantinizm! / What Byzantinism in İstanbul is this!, eds. Emir Alışık, Gülru Tanman, and Brigitte Pitarakis (Istanbul Research Institute, 2021), 20–55
• The Monuments We Privilege: or, How to Write an Ethical History of ByzantiumYILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 3 (2021): 171–176
• Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, eds. Masha Raskolnikov, Greta LaFleur, and Anna Kłosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 297–321
• Bellicose Things: The Inner Lives of Byzantine Warfare ImplementsWord & Image 37:2 (2021): 160–177
• Extended in the Imagination: The Representation of Architectural Space in ByzantiumArchitecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout, eds. Vasileios Marinis, Amy Papalexandrou, and Jordan Pickett (Brepols, 2021), 105–124
• 2020The Exiles of Byzantium: Form, Historiography, and RecuperationDisturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, eds. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Catherine Karkov, and Anna Kłosowska (Punctum Books, 2020), 213–243; open access
• Representation as Indwelling: Contextualizing Michael Psellos’s empsychos graphe across Artistic, Liturgical, and Literary TheoryByzantine and Modern Greek Studies 44:1 (2020): 62–85 Author copy
• 2019Imperial Brutality: Racial Difference and the Intersectionality of the Ethiopian EunuchToward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. Bryan C. Keene (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019), 165–174 Author copy
• 2017The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the ByzantineThe Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, eds. Bettina Bildhauer and Christopher Jones (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2017), 305–336 Author copy
• Beyond Foucault’s Laugh: On the Ethical Practice of Medieval Art HistoryPostcolonising the Medieval Image, eds. Eva Frojmovic and Catherine Karkov (Routledge, 2017), 144–166 Author copy
• 2016Why Sight Is Not Touch: Reconsidering the Tactility of Vision in ByzantiumDumbarton Oaks Papers 70 (2016): 1–23 Author copy
• The Icon’s Gold: A Medium of Light, Air, and SpaceWest 86th 23:2 (2016): 252–280 Author copy
• Tempted to Touch: Tactility, Ritual, and Mediation in Byzantine VisualitySpeculum 91:3 (2016): 660–689 Author copy
• Faltering Images: Failure and Error in Byzantine Manuscript IlluminationWord & Image 32:1 (2016): 1–20 Author copy
• Medieval Art after Duchamp: Hans Belting’s Likeness and Presence at 25Gesta 55:1 (2016): 5–17
• Genre as Medium on YouTube: The Work of Grace HelbigThe Journal of Popular Culture 49:1 (2016): 196–223 Author copy
• 2015Prolepsis and Anticipation: The Apocalyptic Futurity of the Now, East and WestA Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse, ed. Michael A. Ryan (Brill, 2015), 176–204 Author copy
• A Byzantine Liturgical Commentary in Verse: Introduction and TranslationOrientalia Christiana Periodica 81:2 (2015): 433–472 Author copy
• The Thessaloniki Epitaphios: Notes on Use and ContextGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55:2 (2015): 489–535 Open access

Research reports

• 2026Art and Automation: report of the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, second yearCenter 46: Record of Activities and Research Reports, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2026)
• 2025Art and Automation: report of the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, first yearCenter 45: Record of Activities and Research Reports, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2025)