A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Yale University. Postdoctoral training in agroecosystem ecology at The Ohio State University. Areas of interest: coevolution, infectious disease, insect community ecology and evolution. Taught college biology, evolution and parasitology for 9 years. Fellowships and awards: University Postdoctoral Fellow (The Ohio State University), competitive grants awarded from USDA (1990-1998) and NSF(1998-2000). Ad hoc and panel member reviewer for USDA, NSF and various publications. Articles in Evolution, Heredity, J. Parasitology, J. Invertebrate Pathology, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Environmental Entomology.

M.A., University of Glasgow. Former public art consultant and project manager, Art in Partnership, Edinburgh, Scotland. Director, Public Art Fund, New York (1996–2005); has organized innovative contemporary art exhibitions for Rockefeller Center, Battery Park City, Park Avenue, Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, and other city venues; established partnerships with major New York City museums; initiated the In the Public Realm program for emerging artists, and Tuesday Night Talks, a lecture series promoting dialogues between artists, curators, art critics, students, and the public. Has written extensively about contemporary art and lectured at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design. Painter. Solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle, Zurich; Le Plateau, Ile-de-France, Paris; Leo Koenig Gallery, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles; Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin; among others. Group exhibitions include Whitney Museum of American Art; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Denver Art Museum. Recipient of Penny McCall Foundation Grant (1995), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1995), John Simon Guggenheim Grant (1996). Visiting artist, Yale University (2004). (2003– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts.