The essays below represent a variety of research subjects over the past twenty years including artists, immigrants, women, the Civil War, Michigan history, and interesting archival collections.
“Painting with Flowers: Landscape Architect Olaf Jensen.” TRACE, 7 (2023): 7-9.
“The Work of Italian-Born Sculptor Sergio De Giusti.” TRACE, 7 (2023): 15-17.
“William Ives and the Mapping of Isle Royale.” TRACE, 6, no. 2 (Winter 2021) :10-17.
“Reindeer for Michigan.” TRACE, 6, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 7-9.
“Navigating the Rebellious Waters: The Ship Detroit.” TRACE, 6, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2021) :18-21.
“A Filipino Immigrant Goes to War for Michigan.” TRACE, 6, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2021): 32-33.
“archivalia: Beef Bone Carving.” TRACE, 6, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2021): 5.
“No Respector of Persons: Michigan’s Fight against Tuberculosis.” TRACE, 5, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2020):10-15.
“Out on the Inland Sea.” TRACE, 5, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2020):18-21.
“Backwoodsman Correspondence: A Glimpse into the Emil & Bertha Baur Papers.” TRACE, 5, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2020): 20-25.
“Addie L. Lathrop, the Unofficial Mayor of Bruce Crossing.” TRACE, 4, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2019): 20-17.
“Across the Ocean: The Clough Family Collection Returns Home.” TRACE, 4, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2019): 10-13.
“John Harland Cott Collection of Glass Plate Negatives.” TRACE, 4, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2019): 18.
“Michigan Central Railroad Records.” TRACE, 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2018): 26-29.
“Competition, Collaboration, and Connection.” Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America (Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2016)
“Jayne Van Alstyne and Clay: Pottery and Design.” O Pioneers! Women Ceramic Artists, 1925-1960. (Alfred, NY: Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, 2015)
“Feminizing Alcoa Aluminum”: Marianne Strengell and the Forecast Rug (1957).” The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 8 (2015): 167-179.
“Ruth Adler Schnee.” My Brain is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum, 2014)
“Structure and Surface:Marianne Strengell and Woven Texture.” Modernism Magazine, 10, no. 4 (2008): 76-85.
Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 Treasures. (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum, 2004) Mary Chase Perry Stratton and Maija Grotell
Competition, Collaboration and Connection: Cranbrook in 1939. Presentation for the Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America exhibition conference, 2015.
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