PUBLICATIONS
Following is a list of all my books and many but not all of my articles. A more complete list of the articles is available on request via the contact information on my Home page. The books are available through Amazon.com and they may also be purchased directly from the publishers through their hyperlinks listed by each book.
BOOKS
A Museum on the Verge: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001).
To order from the publisher, click: Wayne State University Press, Museum on the Verge page
To order from the publisher, click: Research Center Publications, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
The Printer's Craft: An Exhibition Selected from the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1982) [exhibition catalogue].
To order from the publisher, click: Research Center Publications, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
ARTICLES
"Origins of the Public Museum," Blackwell Companion to Museum Studies, ed. Sharon J. Macdonald (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
"Drawing Over Photographs: James H. Breasted and the Scientizing of Egyptian Epigraphy, 1895-1928." Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation XIV, 1 (Fall 1998).
"The Breasted-Rockefeller Egyptian Museum Project: Philanthropy, Cultural Imperialism, and National Resistance." Art History 19, 4 (December 1996).
"Toward a Historian’s Laboratory: The Breasted-Rockefeller Museum Projects in Egypt, Palestine, and America." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt XXXIII (1996).
"Museum, History." The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996).
"James H. Breasted and the Oriental Institute, 1894-1935." Research Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center (Spring 1993).
"A History of Art Collecting and Museums at the University of Chicago" (co-authored with Richard A. Born). Guide to the Collections (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990).
REVIEWS
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968 by Rebecca DeRoo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). In Museum and Society 4, 2 (July 2006).
Review essay: "Of Unicorn Horns, Museums, and the Search for Knowledge." On the Pober Publishing 2000 reprint of the 1904 edition of David Murray, Museums: Their History and Their Use. In: Museum News [published by the American Association of Museums] 82, 1 (January/February 2003).
Review essay: "Looking, Marking, Thinking, and Thinking About Thinking About Marks and Their Makers." On Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis, by Whitney Davis (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1996) and Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, by James Elkins ([same press], 1997). In: Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation XVI, 1, (2000).
On the Museum's Ruins by Douglas Crimp (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993). In Criticism XXXVI, 3 (1994).