Memory Passages: Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany (Temple University Press, 2020)
"From Ravensbrück to Berlin: Will Lammert’s Monument to the Deported Jews (1957/1985)," Images: A Journal of Jewish Arts and Culture (July 2016)
"‘Never bow your head, be helpful, and fight for justice and righteousness:‘ Nathan Rapoport and Philadelphia’s Holocaust Memorial (1964),” Journal of Jewish Identities (July 2016)
“Marking Absence: Remembrance and Hamburg’s Holocaust Memorials”, in Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Past, eds. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 251 - 272.
“Israeli Holocaust Memorial Strategies at Yad Vashem: from Silence to Recognition”, Art Journal (Summer 2006) vol. 65 no. 2: 102 – 122.
“Too Much Atrocity?” Review of Paul Williams, Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities (Berg: Oxford and New York),Museum Anthropology Review (2009) vol. 3, no. 2: 166 – 168.
“Serious Play: Paul Henry Ramirez,” Paul Henry Ramirez (NY: Distributed Art Publishers, 2005): 23 – 27.
“ProjectSITE: Public Art in the Silos,” Art Lies (Spring 2005) vol. 6 no. 2: 100 – 101.
Recent Papers
2019 Invited Lecturer; The Berger Family Annual Holocaust Lecture, Colby College, Waterville, ME.
Title of Paper: "From Figures to Cubes: Postwar Holocaust Memory in East and West Germany"
2018 Panelist, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA
Title of Paper: "Gerson Fehrenbach's Synagogue Monument (1964): Thirteen Cubes and a Menorah in West Berlin"
2018 Chair of Panel, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA
Title of Panel: "Designing Holocaust Museums: Objects, Form and Ideology"
2018 Invited Speaker, Friends of the Zorach Fountain, Bath, ME
Title of Paper: "William Zorach: Modern Art and New York's Holocaust Memorial Competition"
2016, Panelist, Association of Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA
Title of Paper: "Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones as Social Sculpture"
2015 Panelist, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA
Title of Paper: “‘Never bow your head, be helpful, and fight for justice and righteousness:‘ Nathan Rapoport and Philadelphia’s Holocaust Memorial (1964)"
2015 Chair, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA
Title of Panel: "Seeing Israeli Culture Through the Archive"
2015 Invited Panelist, Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Title of Paper: “'Never bow your head, be helpful, and fight for justice and righteousness:' Nathan Rapoport and Philadelphia’s Holocaust Memorial (1964)”
2015 Panelist, Politics and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe, Lewiston, ME
Title of Paper: "Holocaust Memory in Germany: From Figuration to Abstraction."
2014 Panelist, Association of Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD
Title of Paper: "From Ravensbrück to Berlin: Willi Lammert’s Holocaust Memorial (1957/1985)"
2014 Invited Lecturer, Department of History, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Title of Paper: “Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Holocaust Memorials in Germany”
2013 Invited Panelist, American Association of Anthropology, Chicago, IL
Title of Paper: “Goldsworthy’s Garden of Stones: Holocaust Memory and Environmental Art”
2013 Invited Panelist, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA
Title of Paper: “Addressing an Imagined Community: Holocaust Memorials in the United States”
2013 Panelist, Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensborough, NC
Title of Paper: “Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial: Imagination and Memory”
2013 Invited Lecturer, Colby Alumni College, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Title of Lecture: “Cubism Confronts Fascism: Picasso at the 1937 World’s Fair”
2013 Invited Panelist, Contemporary Women Artists in China, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Title of Panel: “Women’s Spirituality and Environmental Art”
2013 Lecture, Colby Alumni College, Waterville, ME
Title of Paper: “Picasso and the 1937 Picasso World’s Fair”
2012 Lecture, Bowdoin Faculty Seminar Series, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Title of Paper: “Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s First Holocaust Memorial”
2011 Association of Jewish Studies, Washington, DC
Title of Paper: “Nathan Rapoport and North America’s First Holocaust Memorial”
2011 Invited Lecture, Art Department, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
Title of Paper: "Weaving Time: Holocaust Memorials in the United States from Philadelphia to Augusta, ME"
2010 Invited Lecture, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME
Title of Paper: “The Politics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memorials: Germany and Israel”
2009 Invited Lecture, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Title of Paper: “Walking, Imagination: The Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe”
2009 Invited Lecture, Public Art, Public Feeling, Hamilton NY
Title of Paper: “Questioning Dialogue: Public Art and Imagination”
2007 Invited Lecture, Memory and Memorials: Exploring Historical Commemoration on the Border, El Paso, TX Title of Paper: “Forgetful Remembering and Don Juan Oñate”
2006 German Studies Association Pittsburgh, PA
Title of Paper: “Holocaust Remembrance in Hamburg”
2006 Lecture, New Mexico State University Art History Lecture Series, Las Cruces, NM
Title of Paper: “Ed Ruscha, Thomas Cole and Baudrillard’s Art After the Conspiracy”
