Doctoral in Art History, University of Texas at Austin (A.B.D.) 2007 Dissertation : "Framing the Portrait: Towards an Understanding of Elite Late Classic Maya Representation at Palenque, Mexico"
University of California at Riverside, M.A. Art History, 2000
Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota, B.A. 1998 Magna Cum Laude

Present Lecturer, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

2004- 06             Adjunct Instructorr, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Stout

2004                Adjunct Instructor, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN (summer)

2004             Visiting Instructor, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN (spring)

2003             Part-time Instructor, Saint Mary's University, Winona, MN (fall)

2002             Part-time Instructor, Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas (Fall)

2001-02             Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

2000             Gluck Fellow Lecturer, Sweeney Gallery, University of California, Riverside (Spring)

Latin American Art Before 1600: Olmec to Aztec

Evolution of Design

Period Furnishings

American Art: 16 th Century to World War II

Art History Survey, Ancient to Medieval

Art History Survey, Renaissance to Modern

2006             Spencer, Kaylee, and Linnea Wren (eds.) The Monkey Scribe . The Newsletter of the Maya Society of Minnesota. Volume XXVIII, No. 1, Fall.

2004             Wren, Linnea and Kaylee Spencer-Ahrens. "Periodization of the Arts," in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas . New York, Charles Scribner Publishing.

2003             Spencer-Ahrens, Kaylee, "Giovanni Bellori," in Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century . Edited by C. Murray, London: Routledge Press, pp. 95-100.

2002             Spencer-Ahrens, Kaylee and Linnea Wren, "Religion, Cosmology, and Art," in Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World . Edited by Lynn V. Foster. Cambridge: Facts on File, Inc., pp. 157-199.

2002             Spencer-Ahrens, Kaylee and Linnea Wren, "Arithmetic, Astronomy, and the Calendar," in Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World , in Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World . Edited by Lynn V. Foster. Cambridge: Facts on File, Inc., pp. 257-277.

2001             Wren, Linnea, Kaylee Spencer, and Krysta Hochstetler, "Political Rhetoric and the Unification of Natural Geography, Cosmic Space, and Gender Spheres," in Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica . Edited by Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Annabeth Headrick. Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 257-277.

1998             Wren, Linnea, Krysta Hochstetler, and Kaylee Spencer (contributors) "Maria Izquierdo," in Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination . Edited by Rosemary Crumlin, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, pp. 88-89.

1998             Wren, Linnea, Kaylee Spencer, and Krysta Hochstetler, "Ritual Dance: Spirituality in Ancient Maya Culture," Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies , Tenth Anniversary Issue. 10(1): 28-35.