Education: Bachelor of Arts in biology and French. Master of Arts in art history. Ph.D., art history, University of Kansas, 1994. Dissertation: Political Promotion and Institutional Patronage: How New York Displaced Paris as the Center of Contemporary Art, ca. 1955-1968  (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1995).

Working as independent art historian specializing in twentieth-century American and European art. Owns and operates Boyer Ink, a business for writing, translating, and editing, with a special focus on art and cultural texts.