| 1989 |
Ph.D. in Art History, University of Chicago |
| 1982 |
M.A. in Art History, University of Washington |
| 1978 |
B.A. in Art History, University of
Oregon |
| 2008- |
University of Kansas, Professor |
| 1998-2008 |
University of Kansas, Associate Professor |
| 1992-98 |
University of Kansas, Assistant Professor |
| 1991 |
University of Southern California, Lecturer |
| 2006-07 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. Topic: “Lives of the Imperial Painters: Chinese Biographies in Translation,” a translation of the 12th-century Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era. |

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
“The Relief Sculptures in the Binyang Central Grotto at Longmen and the ‘Problem’ of Pictorial Stones,” in Between Han and Tang: Visual and Material Culture in a Transformative Period, ed. Wu Hung, Beijing: Wenwu Press, 2003, pp. 157-89.
“Buddhist Literati and Literary Monks: Social and Religious Elements in the Critical Reception of Zhang Jizhi’s Calligraphy,” in Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, ed. Marsha Weidner, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001, pp. 73-86.
"On the Tang-dynasty Patronage
of Nuns at the Wanfo Grotto, Longmen," Artibus Asiae
LIX, 3/4 (2000):161- 188.

The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati
Politics. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press,
1998.
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