B.A., Carleton College
M.A., Indiana University
Ph.D., University of Iowa

For her doctorate, Julie explored earth-based architecture produced by the Bobo-Dioula and Bobo-Fing residents of Kibidoue, Burkina Faso, West Africa. She has taught African art courses at Carleton, Hamline, MCAD, and the College of Associated Arts.

Julie's interest in sustainable architectural production continues today with the development of environmentally friendly architecture: zero-emissions buildings, adobe in the Southwest, and semi-sunken homes in West Africa.

Julie focused her undergraduate and Masters work on Italian Renaissance art. She conducted field research in Florence on the development of 15th-century tombs and burial chapels.  She conducted infrared reflectographic analysis of Italian Renaissance paintings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art with Professor Molly Faries. Infrared reflectography allows art historians to see carbon-based drawings that exist beneath the paint surface.

Currently Julie is examining scholarly approaches to understanding Asmat art from West Papua, Indonesia. Along with members of the Crosier Community Church in Onamia, Minnesota she is developing a project to interview and record Crosier missionaries who worked and lived among the Asmat.