Publications
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
BOOK
Penn State University Press, 2022
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
BOOK
Omohundro Institute Book Publication Program with the University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
EDITED BOOK
Penn State University Press, 2019.
The Vast Early Modern Atlantic
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Co-edited with Esther Chadwick
Art History, 2023
From Hell to Hell
Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Co-authored with Larissa Brewer-García
Art History, 46, 5 (2023): 946-977.
Penned by Encounter
Visibility and Invisibility of the Cross-Cultural in Images from Early Modern Franciscan Missions in Central Africa and Central Mexico
ARTICLE
Renaissance Quarterly, 75, 4 (2022): 1221-1265.
Les enjeux du visible et de l’invisible dans la Tenture des Indes de la Villa Médicis.
ARTICLE
Studiolo 18 (2022): 182-203.
Kongo, Brésil, France et Colonies
The Taste of Others
Finery, the Slave Trade, and Africa’s Place in the Traffic in Early Modern Things”
CHAPTER
In Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800, 2nd edition, edited by Paula Findlen, 273-292. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition
Tracing Power, Slavery, and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic
ARTICLE
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 88, 2 (2020): 460-504.
Dançando para o rei do Congo
Da África Central, no início da Era Moderna, ao Brasil, no período da escravatura
ARTICLE
In Arte não europeia: conexões historiográficas a partir do Brasil, edited by Claudia Mattos Avolese and Patricia D. Meneses, 125-137. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2020.
Common Threads
Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
ARTICLE
Art History 41, 5 (2018): 838-867.
Tecido estrangeiro, hábitos Locais
Indumentária, insignias reais, e a arte da conversão no início da era moderna do reino do Congo
Foreign Cloth, Local Habits: Clothing, Regalia, and the Art of Conversion in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo
ARTICLE
Anais do Museu Paulista 25, 2 (2017): 11-53.
By the Sword and the Cross
Power and Faith in the Arts of the Christian Kongo
CHAPTER
In Kongo Across the Waters, edited by Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor, and Hein Vanhee. University Press of Florida / Harn Museu. 2013.
Dancing for the King of Congo, from Early Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil
ARTICLE
Colonial Latin American Review 22, 2 (2013): 184-208.
Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo: 1500-1800
ARTICLE
African Arts 44, 4 (2011): 54-65.
Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa
BOOK CHAPTER
In Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World, edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter Mancall, 134-154. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Religious Conversion and Visual Correlation in Early Modern Central Africa
ARTICLE
RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 59-60, (2011): 109-123.
Figure of a Standing Cleric and Three Kongo Crucifixes
CHAPTER
In African Art from the Menil Collection, edited by Kristina Van Dyke. The Menil Collection, 2008.