• President, Textile Society of America www.textilesociety.org
• Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17513472.asp
• Research Associate, The Textile Museum www.textilemuseum.org

2007   Patterns in Time and Space: Technologies of Transfer and the Cultural Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge across the Indian Ocean, Ars Orientalis, v. 34, pp. 174-96.

2006   Number, Shape and the Nature of Space: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Geometry in Islamic Art, in How to Talk about Religion, ed. James Boyd White, pp. 246-77. Erasmus Institute Publications, University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend , IN.

2006   Islamic Art: An Exploration of Pattern, Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, ed. Reza Sarhangi and John Sharp, pp. 525 – 32. Tarquin Publications, London .

2005   Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking: An Approach to Understanding Beauty, Renaissance Banff - Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music,and Science, ed. Reza Sarhangi and Robert V. Moody, pp. 219-26. Banff, Alberta.

2005   Pattern Power: Textiles and the Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge, Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation: Proceedings of the 9^th Biennial Symposium 2004 , pp. 144-53. Ed. Carol Bier, Textile Society of America , Madison , WI , 2005.

2004   Islamic Art at Doris Duke's Shangri La: Playing with Form and Pattern (with David Masunaga), Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science , ed. Reza Sarhangi and Carlo Sequin, pp. 251-58. Winfield, KS.

(author) Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/

 

Check out my students' work from the Maryland Institute College of Art at http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/resources/practicums/