Publications
Books
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paperback edition released in 2019.
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Articles and Essays
"Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay's Images of Jews." In Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Pre-Modern World. Edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, May 2023). Forthcoming essay, co-authored with M. Lindsay Kaplan. Online edition: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/seeing-race-before-race/.
“Ghettos and Jewish Spaces.” In Jeffrey Shoulson (Ed.), Religion Section; Kristen Poole (Gen. Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (Online). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, forthcoming.
“Gendered Dialogues” and “Cultural Encounters.” In “The Birth of The Modern,” Reed Magazine, March 2022. Co-authored with Michael P. Breen: https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2022/the-birth-of-the-modern.html.
“Raphael and Islam in the School of Athens.” In Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican Stanze. Edited by Kim Butler Wingfield and Tracy Cosgriff (Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2022), 121-139.
“Architecture & Alterity in Early Modern Venice.” Journal of the Society for Architectural Historians. Special Issue: “Constructing Race and Architecture (1400-1800).” Edited by David Karmon. 80, no. 4 (December 2021): 391-395.
“The Quarantine Question.” Co-written and co-edited with Lisa Pon. Art Journal Open, December 21, 2021: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=16055.
“The Art of the COVID Copy.” Art Journal Open, August 12, 2021: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=15750.
“The Conversion of Iberia’s Bells.” Material Religion 17, no. 1 (March 2021): 81-110, DOI:10.1080/17432200.2021.1874091.
“#MeToo with the Early Moderns.” In “Object of Study: What They’re Looking at in Class,” Reed Magazine, March 2020.
“Il Ghetto” and “Il Fondaco dei Tedeschi.” Digital mapping project on “Religious Life in Venice”: http://publications.newberry.org/venice/. Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, September 2017.
“Ghetto Urbanism.” In Venice, the Jews, and Europe, 1516-2016. Translated “L’urbanistica del ghetto.” In Venezia, gli ebrei, e l’Europa, 1516-2016. Edited by Donatella Calabi, Ludovica Galeazzo, and Martina Massaro (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), 216-219. Exhibition Catalog, Doge’s Palace, Venice.
“Sensing the City: Night in the Venetian Ghetto.” In Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice. Edited by Sally M. Promey (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014), 159-182.
“Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew.” In Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries. Edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 199-225.
“The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice.” In Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 233-262.
“‘Clamber not you up to the casements’: On Ghetto Views and Viewing.” Jewish History 24, no. 2 (2010): 127-153.
“The Contours of Tolerance: Jews and the Corpus Domini Altarpiece in Urbino.” The Art Bulletin 85, no. 4 (December 2003): 646-661.
“Painting and the Politics of Persecution: Representing the Jew in Fifteenth-Century Mantua.” Art History 23, no. 4 (November 2000): 475-495.
Book Reviews
Lynn Lara Westwater, Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (forthcoming 2022).
Federica Francesconi, Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (forthcoming 2022).
Robert J. Clines, A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean: Early Modern Conversion, Mission, and the Construction of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 52, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 1042-1043.
Tamar Herzig, A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), Renaissance Quarterly 74, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 650-651.
Rena N. Lauer, Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 2021): 374-375.
Flora Cassen, Marking the Jew in Renaissance Italy: Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), Jewish History 31, no. 3 (2018): 357-359.
Niall Atkinson, The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016), Material Religion 14, no. 1 (2018): 132-133.
Joseph Shatzmiller, Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), AJS Review 39, no. 1 (2014): 173-175.
Katherine Aron-Beller, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638 (New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), American Historical Review 117, no. 5 (December 2012): 1686-1687.
Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), Material Religion 8, no. 1 (2012): 111-112.
Michelle O’Malley, The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 38, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 612-613.
J.V. Field, Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician’s Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 38, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 300-301; with Irena Swanson, Mathematics Department, Reed College.
Keith Christiansen, ed., From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 37, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 951-952.
Eva Frojmovic, ed., Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 35, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 848-850.
Thomas P. Campbell, Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 34, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 938-940.
Michael Zell, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 33, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 1209-1210.
Work in Progress
Nonextant Art and the Early Modern World, edited volume in progress with Dawn Odell
Materials of Islam in Premodern Europe, monograph in progress