My focus of research and teaching includes early modern European arts and cultural history, history and theory of museums, culinary history, and history of the book. I am most interested in relationships between objects of daily life, including the arts of the kitchen and table, and the dissemination of learned and practical knowledge through manuscripts, books, and prints. I am also interested in historical archaeology and experimental gastronomy as research methods. In 2023 I published Staging the Table in Europe 1500–1800 in conjunction with an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center, which featured illustrated manuals and handbooks to instruct those carving meats at the table or folding napkins as centerpieces, as well as related knives and forks from the period. My previous book, Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy: Bartolomeo Scappi’s Paper Kitchens (2015), focuses on the history and reception of the first illustrated cookbook in Europe, published in 1570, through print culture and book history. In 2008–09 I collaborated on the exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. At BGC, I was cocurator and editor/author of Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta Van Varick (2009) and Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013). I am cocurator of Consuming Culture: British and American Biscuit Tins, which will open at BGC in February 2027.