Jordan’s research investigates networks of cultural transmission between France and Italy—outside the institutional venues of art academies—that led to the development of an increasingly homogenized visual language of European aristocratic and princely culture over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on the role of French aristocratic women in exporting models of monarchical culture from Paris and Versailles to provincial and foreign courts, other channels of ultramontane artistic transmission examined in Jordan’s work include diplomatic exchange, the growth of secular tourism, travel writing, and the pan-Europeanization of artistic patronage and production. Holding a BA in Art History and an MA in History from Portland State University, Jordan received the PSU History department’s Best Graduate Seminar Paper Award for his paper on the collecting practices of free people of color in prerevolutionary Saint-Domingue, an area of scholarly inquiry that has led him to examine the transmission of early modern French visual culture through the lenses of colonialism, racial identity, and the Atlantic slave trade. Jordan also works as a lead researcher at the Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, where, since August 2020, he has been working on a catalogue raisonné of paintings by the twentieth-century American artist, Lorser Feitelson.