Associate Professor, History of Art and Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.Associate Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.President, Byzantium Studies Conference (1997-98).Graduate advisor, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Art and architecture of the Byzantine empire.Special interests: cultural, archaeological and historiographic contexts for late Roman and Byzantine art, especially textiles and funerary arts of early Byzantine Egypt.Her most recent publications include an essay on Syria, Egypt, Nubia and Ethopia in the catalogue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, "The Glory of Byzantium.".