Sarah is an affiliate faculty member in the Visual Arts Program, teaching art appreciation courses. She holds a BA in art history from the University of Northern Iowa and an MA in art history from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has taught art history for CU Boulder, CU Denver, Naropa University, the Colorado Community College System, and Regis.
In her research, she is drawn to a diverse range of topics in the field of art history and visual culture that are bound together by common themes. These themes include politics, power, cultural interaction, identity, and shifting in the "canon" of art history. Her primary field of research is late Roman art history and numismatics (the study of coins), which she finds to be a fertile ground for the exploration of the use of the image as a vehicle for political rhetoric and indications of cultural interaction. Her most recent research focuses on how cultural perceptions of classical (Greek and Roman) have shifted over time and have informed the history of art and the trajectory of popular culture.
