She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Emory University in 2010. Her research focuses on illustrated botanical manuscripts (herbals) as sites of convergence for Pan-Mediterranean medical traditions and humanist enterprises, particularly in the courts of northern Italy and in Venice during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Her book, Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: the Carrara Herbal in Padua (in press), is forthcoming in the series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean (Ashgate Publishers).