• 2006 Grant-in-Aid for release time to attend a Seminar, Folger Institute, Washington, DC. 2003
• Collaborative Project Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, for The Instruction of a Christen Woman by Juan Luis Vives.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, "Palace Culture," American Academy in Rome,1998.
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, short-term fellowship, 1996-1997.Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Fellow 1989.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1988-1989.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, 1984.
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Visiting Senior Fellow, 1983.
• Stanford University, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Visiting Scholar, 1983.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1981.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar 1980.
• George Mason University: Study-Leave (competitive), 2005-2006; 1998-1999; 1989-1990; Summer Stipend, 1985. 
  
  

• “Tapestry” for The Cambridge Shakespeare Encyclopedia, Volume I: Shakespeare’s World, ed. Bruce R. Smith, 4-6,000 words, in preparation.
• “Women Artists” for the Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, eds. Jane Couchman, Katherine McIver, and Allyson Poska, 8000 words, in preparation.
• “Introduction,” to Women Collectors and Patrons, eds. Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, and Adriana Turpin, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.  
• “La Florentine” or “La bonne Françoise?” Some Sixteenth-Century Commentators on Catherine de’ Medici and her Patronage in Artful Allies: Medici Women as Cultural Mediators, ed. Christina Strunck (Silvana Editore) in press. 
• Review essay on three exhibitions: “Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage” (Bowdoin College Museum of Art), “The Triumph of Marriage” (Gardner and Ringling Museums), and “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” (Metropolitan and Kimbell Museums) for Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal, fall 2009. 
• “Katarina von Medici (1519-1589): Königin aus zufall,” in Die Frauen des Hauses Medici: Politik, Maezententum, Rollenbilder (1512-1743), ed. Christina Strunck Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2012 
• “European Women Patrons, c. 1450-1650: Some Patterns,” in Renaessanceforum 4: Tidsskrift for Renæssanceforskning (Copenhagen, 2008) (18 pp.).
•  “Una pittrice di talento,” in Carla Maria Maggi, ed. S. Bartolena (Milan; Skira, 2007), 36-38.
• “Wife, Widow, Nun, and Court Lady: Women Patrons of the Renaissance and Baroque,” in Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque ( Milan: Skira, 2007, 31-39).
• “Catherine de’ Médicis: La Reine-Patronne Ideale de la Rénaissance?” in Les Femmes et les arts à la Renaissance: Patronnes et mécènes, d’Anne de France à Catherine de Médicis, ed. Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (Paris: Université de Saint-Étienne, 2007, 455-66). 
• “Artemisia Gentileschi” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in the West, ed. Bonnie Smith, 2007.
• “Women and Art in the Renaissance,” in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance, eds. Diana Robin, Anne Larsen, and Carole Levin and ABC-Clio, 2007), 30-34.
• “The Italian “Training” of Catherine de’ Medici: The Portrait as Dynastic Narrative,” in The Court Historian 10(2005), 36-54.
• "Learning to Be Looked at: The Portrait of [The Artist as] a Young Woman in Agnes Merlet's Artemisia," Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History in the Postmodern Era, ed. N. Broude and M.D. Garrard (University of California Press), 2005.
• "Portraying Queens: the International Language of Court Portraiture in the Sixteenth Century," in Elizabeth I: Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler, Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003, 164-175.
• The Instruction of a Christen Woman by Juan Luis Vives; Coordinating Editors: Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Margaret Mikesell, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, December 2002.."Antoine Caron," "Catherine de’ Medici,"
• "François and Jean Clouet," "Niccolò dell’Abbate," "Bernard Palissy, and Jean Goujon" for Renaissance and Reformation: 1500-1620: a Biographical Dictionary, ed. Jo Eldridge Carney, (Westport CT: and London: Greenwood Press, 2001).
• "Women in the Garden of Allegory: Catherine de’ Medici and the Locus of Female Rule," in Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France, ed. Miroslava Benes and Dianne Harris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 207-224.
• "Make Love not War: Images of Peace through Marriage in Renaissance France," in Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity: Strategies of Co-Existence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Diane Wolfthal, ACMRS IV (Brussels: Brepols), 2000, 213-232..
• "Putting Women into the Picture: Gender and Art History in the Classroom," in Attending to Early Modern Women, ed. Susan D. Amussen and Adele Seeff (Newark: University of Delaware Press/London: Associated University Presses: 1998), 278-296.
• "Francis Haskell," "Erwin Panofsky," "Giorgio Vasari," and "Aby Warburg and Warburg School," for A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (New York: Garland Press), 1998.
• "The Ideal Queenly Patron of the Renaissance: Catherine de’ Medici Defining Herself or Defined by Others?" in Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs, ed. Cynthia Lawrence (Penn State University Press: 1997), 99-109.
• "Preface [Seth Eastman’s Watercolors of Minnesota Indian Life and James J. Hill]" (with Shepard Krech III), in Seth Eastman: A Portfolio of North American Indians, by Sarah E. Boehme, Christian F. Feest, and Patricia Condon Johnston (University of Washington Press/Afton Historical Society Press, 1995), xii-xxi.
• "Exemplarity and Gender: Three Lives of Catherine de’ Medici," in The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe: Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV, Eds. Thomas Mayer and Daniel Woolf (University of Michigan Press: 1995), 321-340
• "Once Upon a Tapestry: Inventing the Ideal Queen," in Images of a Queen’s Power: The Artemisia Tapestries, by Sheila ffolliott and Candace Adelson (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts), 1993, 13-19.
• "A Queen’s Garden of Power: Catherine de’ Medici and the Locus of Female Rule," in Reconsidering the Renaissance, ed. Mario Di Cesare (Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992), 245-55.
• "James J. Hill as Art Collector: A Documentary View," in Homecoming: The Art Collection of James J. Hill, by Jane Hancock, Sheila ffolliott, and Thomas O’Sullivan (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 21-43.
• "Casting a Rival into the Shade: Catherine de’ Medici and Diane de Poitiers," The Art Journal (48:1989), 138-143.
• "Catherine de’ Medici as Artemisia: Figuring the Powerful Widow", in Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, Eds. M. Ferguson, M. Quilligan, and N. Vickers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 227-41.
• Civic Sculpture in the Renaissance: Montorsoli’s Fountains at Messina (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984). 

Book, Multimedia, and Exhibition Reviews in: The William and Mary Quarterly, Woman’s Art Journal, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, Design Book Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation/Rénaissance et Réforme, Artweek, Allegorica, Vassar Quarterly. CAA Reviews on line; H-NET review of "Women Leaders " CD-ROM.

Conferences (select):

Keynote Addresses:

• Women and the Portrait in the Renaissance, Sixteenth Century Studies Association, 2007.
• Recent Trends Panel, The Renaissance of Women, Renaissance Society of America, 2006
• The Mary Fitterman Lecture, Minneapolis Insitute of Arts, 2005.
• Muted Poetry: Leonardo’s Ginevra and Raphael’s Galatea, The Philadelphia Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the University of Pennsylvania, 1998.

Papers Presented at National Meetings:  

Barnard Conference on Feminism and Art History, 1993, 1989.
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 2008, 2002, 1999, 1996.
College Art Association, 2008, 1996, 1995 (comment), 1994, 1991, 1990 (comment), 1989, 1988, 1983.
GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies), 1996.
The Medieval Institute (Kalamazoo), 1993 (comment), 1989.
Renaissance Society of America, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1989, 1985.
Sixteenth-Century Studies Association, 2010, 2009, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1998, 1993, 1991, 1990.
Shakespeare Association of America, 1995 (comment, plenary).
Society of Architectural Historians, 1988, 1987 (comment), 1984.
Society for French Historical Study, 2001 (comment).

Papers Presented at Special Conferences:  

• "Why do/should we care to label Catherine de' Medici as Italian or French?" : Artful Allies: Medici Women as Cultural Mediators Florence, 15-17 October 2008.
•  “Brantôme’s Portrait of Catherine de’ Medici’s Examining her own Portrait,” New College (Florida) Medieval and Renaissance Conference, 2008. 
• “European Women Patrons, c. 1450-1650: Some Patterns,” Renaissance Women as Collectors and Patrons of Art and Culture, Seminar at the University of Copenhagen, 21 September 2006.
• Queens and the Migration of Dynastic Culture, The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, MA, 2004.
• Prerogatives of Rule: the French Queen from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie Antoinette, Amherst College, 1999, plenary speaker.
• Material London, ca. 1600, Folger Shakespeare library, 1995, plenary speaker.
• Le Royaume de Fémynie, Château de Blois (France), 1995.
• Feminist Perspectives on the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1995.
• Positioning Women in Early Modern Europe, University of Maryland, Center for Renaissance/Baroque Studies, 1994, plenary speaker.
• Italian Sculpture and Italian Sculptors North of the Alps, 1500-1800, Rome, Accademia Polacca delle Scienze, 1991
• Women and Sovereignty, The University of St. Andrews, 1990.
• Matronage, Temple University, 1990, plenary speaker

Teaching Areas:

Italian Art and Architecture, 1300-1700;
European Art and Architecture, 1550-1700;
The Portrait; The Court; Gender; Art as Evidence;
Material Culture; Early Modern Rome. 

                     Memberships:

• American Friends of Attingham
• EMW, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (co-founder)
• Italian Art Society
• Sixteenth-Century Studies Association
• Society of Architectural Historians and Latrobe Chapter
• The Renaissance Society of America