Graduate Programs in Medieval Art History
The following census attempts to collect the most essential information about graduate programs in art history that include a medieval component (broadly defined). Its primary purpose is to provide a single resource for students interested in pursuing an advanced degree in medieval art history. It is also hoped that faculty will find the list useful in guiding their students. Although the ICMA Digital Resources Committee has tried to confirm the accuracy of each program’s entry, be advised that the information provided here may not be in all cases accurate. Please feel free to alert the editor, Lindsay Cook, to changes so that the list can be updated in regular fashion.
Originally compiled with the assistance of Ms. Olena Konyeva and Ms. Spice Maybee at the University of Toronto.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tempe, AZ)
School of Art
M.A. in Art History; Ph. D. in Design, Environment and the Arts with concentration in history, theory, and criticism; graduate certificate in medieval studies through the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
http://art.asu.edu/admissions/grad/applying/ma_arthistory.php
Corine Schleif, Professor. Ph.D., Universität Bamberg.
Corine.Schleif@asu.edu
Research Interests: late-medieval religious art in German-speaking areas and on German art historiography from all periods. Her thematic interests include art as donation and memorial cultures; constructions, intersections, and negotiations of gender, species, class, and race through art and multiple media. She welcomes students who wish to learn the use of archival sources, to employ critical approaches, and to engage theory. Currently, together with V. Schier, she is co-directing the digital project Opening the Geese Book and writing a book on the history of the Holy Lance. Her projects have been funded by Fulbright, Kress, Getty, and NEH grants and fellowships.
BARD GRADUATE CENTER (New York, NY)
M.A. , Ph.D. in Art History
https://www.bgc.bard.edu/
Ittai Weinryb, Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
weinryb@bgc.bard.edu
Research Interests: material culture of the global Middle Ages
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, MA)
Department of History of Art & Architecture
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.bu.edu/ah/index.shtml
Deborah Kahn, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Courtauld Institute, University of London.
debkahn@bu.edu
Research Interests: European art and architecture of the Middle Ages with special interests in the historical context of monumental stone sculpture, its iconography and the transmission of images.
BROWN UNIVERSITY (Providence, RI)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture (interdisciplinary work is encouraged with the Institute for Archaeology and the Program in Medieval Studies faculty.)
http://www.brown.edu/academics/art-history/
Sheila Bonde, Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of History of Art and Professor of Archaeology. Ph.D, Harvard University.
Sheila_Bonde@brown.edu
Research Interests: The study of monastic architecture and archaeology has been Prof. Bonde’s primary research focus as she considers the larger question of the social meanings of architectural spaces. She has published on liturgy and ritual, on fortifications and on the reuse of classical antiquity in medieval art. Her teaching engages with Byzantine and Islamic art as well as the art of the medieval west. She is co-director, with Prof. Clark Maines, of the Monastic Archaeology Project at Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France.
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE (Bryn Mawr, PA)
Department of History of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art (interdisciplinary study encouraged through the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art)
http://www.brynmawr.edu/hart/
http://www.brynmawr.edu/gradgroup/
Alicia Walker, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
awalker01@brynmawr.edu
Research Interests: Late antique through middle Byzantine art and architecture (first to thirteenth centuries); medieval cross-cultural artistic interactions (esp. btw. Byzantium and the Islamic world); the legacies of antique art and culture in the Middle Ages; gender and sexuality in medieval art and culture.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, OH)
Department of Art History and Art
Cooperative program with Cleveland Museum of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History; M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies
http://arthistory.case.edu/
Elizabeth Bolman, Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts. Ph.D., Bryn Mawr.
elizabeth.bolman@case.edu
Research Interests: include late antique and Byzantine visual culture, as they intersect with gender, monasticism, and aesthetics; Prof. Bolman directs wall painting conservation projects in Egypt, and is involved in an interdisciplinary collaboration at the Red and White Monasteries.
Elina Gertsman, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, Professor of Art History and Director of Graduate Studies. PhD, Boston University.
elina.gertsman@case.edu
Research Interests: later medieval art; memory and perception; image theory; uncanny animations; performance/performativity; senses; late medieval macabre; material turn in art history; emotion and affectivity; emptiness.
Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Museum of Art. Ph.D., Technical University Berlin.
MedievalArt@clevelandart.org
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE GRADUATE CENTER (New York, NY)
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Art-History
Jennifer Ball, Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
jball@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Early Islamic Art, and Western Medieval Art
Cynthia Hahn, Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
chahn@hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian, Early Medieval-Late Medieval Art
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (New York, NY)
Department of Art History and Archaeology
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/
Gregory Bryda, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History, Barnard College. Ph.D., Yale University.
gcb2128@columbia.edu
Research Interests: European medieval art, social and cultural history, history of folklore, history of science.
Holger Klein, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History. Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.
hak56@columbia.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art and archaeology.
Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam. Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.
as4501@columbia.edu
Research Interests: artistic interactions in the Mediterranean basin, migration of objects, and medieval aesthetics.
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
See Inter-University Ph.D. Program in Art History
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, NY)
Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.cornell.edu/index.cfm
Benjamin Anderson, Associate Professor. PhD, Bryn Mawr College
bwa32@cornell.edu
Specialty: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Art
Research Interests: the history of late antique and Byzantine art, the topography of late antique and medieval Constantinople, later medieval architecture of Anatolia, and the history of art history.
Cynthia Robinson, Mary Donlon Alger Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
cynrobin@earthlink.net; cr94@cornell.edu
Research Interests: Medieval and Islamic art; interdisciplinary approach to cultural exchange between Christianity and Islam, and Romance and Arabic cultures in the Mediterranean, particularly medieval Iberia.
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART (London, England, UK)
Department of Art History, and Department of Conservation
M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History and Conservation
https://courtauld.ac.uk/
Prof Sussan Babaie, Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam; Graduate Diploma Programme Coordinator.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/sussan-babaie/
Research Interests: the early modern Safavid period with topics on urbanism and empire studies, on sexuality and social habits of ‘seeing’, and on transcultural visuality and notions of exoticism. Most recently, she has been developing a book-length project on Food/Art and the link between taste and seeing. A university-trained graphic designer, she writes and lectures on the historiography of the global contemporary and its implications for the arts of Iran and the Middle East.
MA Special Option: ‘Court and Commerce: Arts of Islam and the Great Mongol State, 1206-1368’, https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-of-art/court-and-commerce/
Dr Jessica Barker, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/jessica-barker/
Research Interests: medieval tombs and commemoration; seals and heraldry; the emotions; jewellery; scale; Portugal and Africa; sculpture and materials.
Prof Alixe Bovey, Dean and Deputy Director.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/alixe-bovey/
Research Interests: Medieval Art, with a focus on northern Europe, c. 1100-1500; The interplay between myth and material culture; Illuminated manuscripts; Pictorial narrative and word-image relations; The role of the visual arts in public ritual and private devotion.
Prof Antony Eastmond, AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/antony-eastmond/
Research Interests: Medieval Art in the Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia); Byzantine Art in all forms, but especially Byzantine ivories; Interchange between Christian and Islamic art in the medieval near east; The study of inscriptions as visual objects; Art and identity in the middle ages; Centre and periphery.
MA Special Option: ‘Byzantium and its Rivals: Art, Display and Cultural Identity in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean’,
https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-of-art/byzantium-and-its-rivals/
Dr Teresa Lane, Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma and Associate Lecturer.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/teresa-lane/
Research Interests: The depiction of the divine; the interrelationships between image and text; and the role of images and objects in religious devotion.
MA Special Option: ‘Miniature to Monumental: Encounters with Medieval Art’, https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-of-art/miniature-to-monumental/
Dr Tom Nickson, Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/tom-nickson/
Research Interests: The spread of Gothic architecture in medieval Europe and technologies of architectural transmission; Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, especially Iberia and England; 19th– and 20th-century architectural criticism and revivalism; The cult of Thomas Becket; Church furnishings and inventories; Epigraphy and orality in Christian and Islamic contexts; The reception of Islamic art and architecture in medieval Europe; Architecture and light; Antiquarianism in Early Modern Spain and England.
MA Special Option: ‘Medieval Art & Architecture 1066-1603: England & Beyond’, https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-of-art/england-beyond/
Prof Susie Nash, Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/susie-nash/
Research Interests: Late medieval art of all media in Northern Europe and Spain c. 1350-1500; Materials, their supply, trade, cost, properties and meaning (rencently, in particular the materials of tombs, notably black Dinant marble and ‘alabaster’); imagery, agency, and the making of meaning in religious works; Sculpture and Sculptural polychromy; lnventories at the Courts of France c. 1360-1422; Technical art history; The visual historiography of Art History.
MA Special Option: ‘Reinterpreting the Object. Late Medieval and Renaissance Art in Northern Europe c. 1360-1520’, https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-of-art/art-in-northern-europe/
Dr Jane Spooner, Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings.
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/dr-jane-spooner/
Research Interests: The iconography and design of medieval English royal wall paintings, and in artists’ original paint materials, techniques, and workshop practice; architectural polychromy; the role that antiquarians played in the preservation of ancient buildings and decorated interiors; and in the history of the conservation of wall paintings.
MA in the Conservation of Wall Paintings: https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-conservation-of-wall-painting/
DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, NC)
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Ph.D. in Art History
https://aahvs.duke.edu/
Annabel J. Wharton, William B. Hamilton Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Courtauld Institute, University of London.
wharton@duke.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture, Modern Architecture.
EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, GA)
Art History Department
Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.emory.edu/home/index.html
Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Professor. Ph.D., Brown University.
epastan@emory.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture; Stained Glass; Representations of Jews and Heretics; Hagiography; Medievalism; the Bayeaux Tapestry.
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tallahassee, FL)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fsu.edu/~arh/
Lynn Jones, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois.
lajones@fsu.edu
Research Interests: Byzantine, Armenian, and Islamic art and architecture.
Kyle Killian, Assistant Professor and Director of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies. Ph.D., Columbia University.
kkillian@fsu.edu
Research Interests: archaeology, architecture history and cultural heritage studies with a primary focus on the Middle Ages.
Erika Loic, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
eloic@fsu.edu
Research Interests: global medieval art history, manuscript illumination, and the Iberian Peninsula.
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (Fairfax, VA)
Department of History and Art History
M.A. in Art History; Dual M.A. in Art History and Arts Management; Certificate in Digital Public Humanities
https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/programs/la-ma-ah
Heidi Gearheart, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
hgearhar@gmu.edu
Research Interests: Romanesque manuscripts and ars sacra, medieval art theory, craft and manufacture, artists and records of art-making, women and gender.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.)
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
M.A. in Art History
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccas/webdev/art/index.cfm
Mika Natif, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. PhD, New York University
mmn215@gwu.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Art and Intercultural exchange; Islamic painting, with special interest in Central Asia, Iran, India, and the Mediterranean.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Cambridge, MA)
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/
Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture. Ph.D., Yale University.
jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Art of the medieval West.
Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
kalavrez@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine art
Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies. Ph.D., Princeton University.
cmaranci@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: medieval Transcaucasus and cultural relations with the Byzantine, Sasanian, and Islamic worlds. Architecture and sculpture of the seventh century; issues of memory, historiography, identity, and performance.
HUNTER COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (New York, NY)
Department of Art
M.A. in Art History
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/art/art-history/ma-program
Cynthia Hahn, Professor (also appointed at the Graduate Center CUNY). Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
chahn@hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests: presently engaged in completing a book on issues concerning the making, use, and display of reliquaries between the early Christian period and 1204.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, IN)
Department of the History of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~ahist/index.html
Sarah Bassett, Associate Professor, Medieval Mediterranean. Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College.
sebasset@indiana.edu
Research Interests: late antique, early medieval and Byzantine aesthetics, late antique portraiture, early Christian icons, the reception of the classical past in late antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages, late antique and early medieval urbanism.
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Associate Chair, Department of History; Professor, Department of History. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
Research Interests: Early medieval architecture, archaeology, history, and historiography.
Margaret Graves, Associate Professor of Islamic Art. Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.
marggrav@indiana.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Islamic visual culture; Nineteenth-century
Islamic arts; The image of architecture in paintings, sculpture and applied
arts; Orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art.
Diane Reilly, Provost Professor. Ph.D., University of Toronto.
dreilly@indiana.edu
Research Interests: Romanesque illuminated manuscripts, especially English and French Giant Bibles; the process and functions of text illustration in monastic culture; and the image of the early medieval king and queen; medieval cities and the role of women in eleventh- and twelfth-century court life.
Bret Rothstein, Ruth N. Halls Professor. PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara.
brothste@indiana.edu
Specialty: Northern Renaissance Art
INTER-UNIVERSITY PH.D. PROGRAM IN ART HISTORY
Université de Montréal, Université de Québec at Montréal, Concordia University
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.docinterhar.org/menu-utilitaire/accueil/
Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Kristine Tanton, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Southern California
Research interests: Medieval art and architecture (1000-1250) with a geographic focus on France (although not exclusively), monumental sculpture, spatial iconography, epigraphy, role of the Church in medieval society (800-1200), liturgy, digital humanities (specifically 3D reconstructions and databases).
Concordia University (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Steven Stowell, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Oxford University
steven.stowell@concordia.ca
Research Interests: Late medieval and Renaissance art in Italy, especially devotional art and art theory; Renaissance medievalisms in Italian art and art theory; prayers to, and miracles worked by art objects; gender and sexuality in late medieval and Renaissance art. Current project: a book-length manuscript entitled The Mystical Experience of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Italian Renaissance Writings on Art
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, MD)
Department of the History of Art
Ph.D. program allows specialization
http://arthist.jhu.edu/graduate
Mitchell Merback, William Arnell and Everett Land Professor. PhD, University of Chicago.
merback@jhu.edu
Research Interests: German, Central European, and Netherlandish art and architecture from circa 1300–1550, his work ranges over the many issues raised by Christian devotional art and cultic imagery during times of conflict, contestation, reform, and transformation. The problem of art and violence has always been a preoccupation, leading me sometimes to case studies of paintings, at other times into the domain of prints; sometimes to works of demonstrable aesthetic value, at other times to the domains of spectacle and performance.
Nino Zchomelidse, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Ph.D., University of Bern; Habilitation, University of Tübingen.
nzchome1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: theoretical, historiographical, and political aspects of medieval art; the role of the arts for the construction of civic identity; representation and mimesis.
UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL (Québec City, Québec, Canada)
Didier Méhu, Professor of Medieval History and Art History. Ph.D., Université Lumière – Lyon II.
Didier.Mehu@hst.ulaval.ca
Research Interests: generally, anthropology of the image and the role of the church in society (8th-13th centuries), in France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and Northern Spain. More specifically, the relationship between gestures, texts, and images in ritual contexts; relations between image and ornament in liturgical manuscripts; and on the corporeal experience of sculpture within an ecclesiastical context.
Robert Marcoux, Associate Professor. Ph.D. (Art history), Ph.D. (History), Université Laval (Québec).
robert.marcoux@hst.ulaval.ca
Research Interests: Images of the body and death in the Middle Ages; the role of funerary art in the construction of the self and in the social dynamics between the living and the dead; medieval concepts of matter and its anagogical quality; medieval ekphrasis; statistical and serial analysis of iconography. Current projects : the words, images and descriptions of tombs in medieval art and literature; the iconography of the Raising of Lazarus; art and factor analysis.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (Baton Rouge, LA)
School of Art
M.A. in Art History (interdisciplinary work is encouraged with the Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies Project)
http://design.lsu.edu
Ludovico Geymonat, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Princeton University
geymonat1@lsu.edu
Research interests: medieval drawings, monumental programs, and the question of how images and ideas circulated in the Middle Ages. He has published on 13th- and 14th-century Venetian painting and sculpture, the Baptistery of Parma, and medieval drawings. Current projects: two book projects. The first focuses on wall paintings in the Baptistery of Parma, Italy, and the second, Monumental Decorations and the Medieval Perception of Space, investigates how ideas are translated into visual representations on a monumental scale.
McGILL UNIVERSITY (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Department of Art History & Communication Studies
M. A. and Ph.D
http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/
Cecily J. Hilsdale, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
cecily.hilsdale@mcgill.ca
Research Interests: Cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean, in particular the circulation of Byzantine luxury objects as well as the dissemination of eastern styles, techniques, and iconographies. Other interests include ritual, gender and patronage, image theory, as well as the art and architecture of medieval Spain.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, MI)
Department of Art | Art History | Design
M.A. in Art History
http://www.art.msu.edu/
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS (New York, NY)
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/academics/index.htm
Finbarr Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor. Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.
barry.flood@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Art and architecture of the Islamic world, Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture, Theories and practices of image-making, Technologies of Representation, Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory, Orientalism.
Robert Maxwell, Sherman Fairchild Associate Professor. PhD, Yale University.
ram22@nyu.edu
Research Interests: The art of the Middle Ages, particularly in the sculpture, architecture and manuscripts of the Romanesque and Early Gothic periods, as well as medieval art’s historiography
Kathryn Smith, Professor. PhD, New York University.
kathryn.smith@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and medieval art; illustrated Gothic manuscripts; image-text relationships in medieval art, especially illuminated manuscripts; the roles of imagery in lay religion; images and one-off illustrated books as expressive and constitutive of medieval notions of the self.
Thelma Thomas, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
tkt2004@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Late antique, early Christan and Byzantine art and archaeology, especially textiles and sculpture, and historiography.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (DeKalb, IL)
School of Art
M.A. in Art History
https://www.niu.edu/grad/academics/masters/art-history.shtml
Ann van Dijk, Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
avandijk@niu.edu
Research Interests: art of medieval Rome, artistic relations between Rome and Byzantium, perceptions of medieval art during the Counter Reformation.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, IL)
Department of Art History
M.A (no terminal M.A. program, awarded in certain cases), Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.northwestern.edu/graduate/
Christina Normore, Associate Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
c-normore@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: art of the Western European Middle Ages, ranging from the edible and performance art of court banquets to the depiction of female ascetics.
Rebecca Zorach, Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
rezorach@uchicago.edu
Research Interests: Late medieval and Renaissance art, primarily French and Italian; gender studies, critical theory, and historiography; art in Chicago in the 1960s; contemporary art/activism. Current interests include prints, print culture, and technology; the theory and practice of collaboration; and the Black Arts Movement in Chicago.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (Columbus, OH)
Department of History of Art
M.A, Ph.D. in Art History
http://history-of-art.osu.edu/
Karl Whittington, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
whittington.78@osu.edu
Research Interests: Western medieval art and architecture. Particular research interests include manuscript studies, art and science, medieval image theory, and the depiction of the body.
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (Stillwater, OK)
Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History
M.A. in Art History
http://art.okstate.edu/prospective/ma_art_history.php
Jennifer Borland, Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University.
jennifer.borland@okstate.edu
Research Interests: audience and reception, medical and scientific imagery, cross-cultural exchange, Islamic art, representations of gender, feminist theory, theories of corporeality and vision, cinema studies
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (University Park, PA)
Department of Art History
M.A, Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.psu.edu/
Lindsay S. Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History. Ph.D., Columbia University.
lsc5353@psu.edu
Research Interests: Gothic architecture, medievalism in African American architecture, digital art history.
Heather McCune Bruhn, Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.
hcm1@psu.edu
Daniel M. Zolli, Assistant Professor of Art History; Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts. Ph.D., Harvard University.
dmz27@psu.edu
Research Interests: late medieval and early modern art in Southern Europe, with an emphasis on materials and techniques of art, worksites and workshop practice, art’s theorization in oral tradition and popular folklore, and its entanglements with law and the environment.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, NJ)
Department of Art and Archaeology
Ph.D. in Art History
https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu
https://ima.princeton.edu
Charles Barber, Professor, Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
cebarber@princeton.edu
https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/charlie-barber
Research Interests: Early Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, manuscript illumination. Barber's current research focuses on the icon, and on the artistic community of 16th-century Crete.
Patricia Blessing, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
pblessing@princeton.edu
Research Interests: Islamic art and architecture, Anatolia, intermediality. Blessing’s current research focuses on 15th-century Ottoman monuments, the relationship between architecture and textiles, and the historiography of Islamic architecture.
Beatrice Kitzinger, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
bkitzinger@princeton.edu
https://scholar.princeton.edu/kitzinger
Research Interests: Early Medieval art, manuscript illumination, image theory, performance. Kitzinger's current research focuses on Carolingian Christological narrative, the development of historiated initials in 8th-century legal contexts, and, perennially, 9–10th century Breton gospel illumination.
Pamela Patton, Director, Index of Medieval Art. PhD, Boston University
ppatton@princeton.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian sculpture and manuscript illumination, inter-cultural exchange, iconography. Patton's current research focuses on color and representations of identity in the medieval world.
Students in Princeton's graduate program work with all members of the medievalist faculty, and with the Index of Medieval Art and its team of specialists. Current students’ dissertation topics represent a range of geographies and eras, including Ethiopian gospel books, Russian art theory, Bilingual Greek–Latin psalters, Carolingian libraries, Armenian liturgical manuscripts, and Late Antique Levantine mosaics.
The Department of Art & Archaeology participates in Princeton’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program, which funds a preparatory year for qualifying applicants: https://graddiversity.princeton.edu/pre-doctoral-fellowship-initiative
Please note that the application fee for the PhD program can be waived in applicable circumstances: https://gradschool.princeton.edu/admission/applying-princeton/deadlines-and-fees/application-fee-waivers
If you have questions, please contact the faculty above, or graduate administrator Diane Schulte for application logistics: https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/staff
QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (New York, NY)
Art Department
M.A. in Art History
www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/Art
William W. Clark, Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University.
wwclark@comcast.net
Research Interests: Early medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic art and architecture.
Warren T. Woodfin, Kallinikeion Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois.
warren.woodfin@qc.cuny.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture, with a particular interest the liturgical and ceremonial uses of art, as well as on the reception of Byzantine art by neighboring cultures. His recent work has focused especially on the 12th-15th centuries, especially on portable arts such as textiles and costume, metalwork and enamel.
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Art History & Art Conservation
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://www.queensu.ca/art/arthistory.html
Cathleen Hoeniger, Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
hoeniger@post.queensu.ca
Research Interests: Late Medieval and Early Renaissance panel- and wall-painting in Italy; art and science in the late Middle Ages, including herbals and other illustrated medical manuscripts.
Matthew M. Reeve, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Cambridge University.
reevem@queensu.ca
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic art across Europe, but with particular focus on France and England; artistic and cultural relationships between the medieval West and the Islamic world; critical theory in medieval art history; episodes of medievalism (particularly constructions of the Gothic) in Western art from c. 1500 to the present; the historiography of art history.
Ron Spronk, Professor. Ph.D., Groningen University.
spronkr@post.queensu.ca
Research Interests: Early Netherlandish painting; technical art history; applications of digital imaging in art history; digital humanities.
RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, TX)
Department of Art History
Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.rice.edu/
Denva Gallant, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
dg102@rice.edu
She is a specialist in European medieval art and architecture, with an emphasis on manuscript illumination and the figural arts of the Trecento. Her scholarly work explores themes of narrative, the rise of the eremitic ideal as exemplum virtutis, and issues of patronage in the Middle Ages.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK (New Brunswick, NJ)
Department of Art History
MA in Art History, MA track in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies; Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/menu-iii/program-information
Archer St. Clair Harvey, Professor Emerita. Ph.D., Princeton University.
astch@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Late antique art and archaeology; Associate Director of the American Academy in Rome/Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma Palatine East Excavation.
Tamara Sears, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
tamara.sears@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: South Asian visual culture; religious art and architecture; medieval studies; colonial historiography; landscape studies; environment; trans regional studies.
Erik Thunø, Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
thuno@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Italy from Constantine the Great to the early modern period. His most recent publications are concerned with the medieval perception of the image by addressing such topics as the cult of relics, materiality, and the interaction between image and word. His current research concentrates on medieval apse mosaics.
Laura Weigert, Professor. Ph.D., Northwestern University.
weigert@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Northern European art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Her research focuses on the interaction between visual images and their architectural and ritual settings in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and includes the study of manuscript illumination, prints, panel painting, and textiles.
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (Savannah, GA)
School of Liberal Arts
M.A. in Art History
www.scad.edu/arthistory
Rebecca Turner, Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture; the relationship between liturgy and architecture.
Stephen M. Wagner, Professor. Ph.D., University of Delaware.
Research Interests: Late Antique, Early Christian, Early Medieval Art and Architecture with a concentration in manuscripts, social history and relationships between Western Europe and the Byzantine and Islamic worlds.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (Dallas, TX)
Art History Department
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasOfStudy/ArtHistory.aspx
http://www.smu.edu/meadows.aspx
Abbey Stockstill, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
Research Interests: Architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world; shared visual languages in the medieval Mediterranean; technological transmission and translation.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Stanford, CA)
Department of Art and Art History
Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.stanford.edu/academics/graduate-programs
Emanuele Lugli, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
emanuele.lugli@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Mediterranean art, architecture and visual culture from 1000-1500, with an emphasis on the nexus between art, politics, science and technology.
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor of Art History. Ph.D., Harvard University.
bissera@stanford.edu
Research Interests: phenomenology, aesthetics, architectural and psycho-acoustics, medieval image theory, icons, minor arts in the Mediterranean with a focus on Byzantine art.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON (Binghamton, NY)
Art History Department
M.A., Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture
http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/graduate/index.html
Nancy Um, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
nancyum@binghamton.edu
Research Interests: Visual culture, built environment, and urbanism in the Islamic world and the Indian Ocean; gift exchange; port cities and coastal cultures.
Alexis Wang, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University.
awang13@binghamton.edu
Research Interests: medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; mediality of mural decoration, cross-cultural exchange, medieval notions of nature, and the intersections between art, science, and devotion.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, NY)
Department of Art & Music Histories
M.A in Art History
http://amh.syr.edu/graduate/index.html
Matilde Mateo, Associate Research Professor. Ph.D., University of Santiago de Compostela.
mmmateo@syr.edu
Research Interests: construction of the national identity of Spain in the historiography of the art and architecture of medieval Spain; perceptions and recreations of the Gothic in post-medieval times.
Glenn Peers, Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
gapeers@syr.edu
Research Interests: Theoretical aspects of Byzantine art; theological and hagiographical problems; Christian-Muslim interaction, erotics and animism in Byzantine and East Christian art.
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY (Tel Aviv, Israel)
M.A. in Art History
https://en-arts.tau.ac.il/art-history
Assaf Pinkus, Professor. Ph.D.
pinkusas@tauex.tau.ac.il
Specialization: production, patronage, spectatorship, and response in later medieval German sculpture and trecento painting
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, PA)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/arthistory/index.html
Joseph Kopta, Assistant Professor of Instruction. Ph.D., Temple University.
joseph.kopta@temple.edu
Specialization: visual and material culture of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Ashley West, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Pennsylvania
ashley.west@temple.edu
Specialization: Northern Renaissance Art
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY (Lubbock, TX)
School of Art
M.A. in Art History
(interdisciplinary work is encouraged with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program which offers a graduate certificate)
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ART/SOA/nav/grad/ma.php
Janis Elliott, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Warwick.
janis.elliott@ttu.edu
Research Interests: Naples in the fourteenth century, specifically issues of royal and lay patronage, the relation of chapel decoration to liturgical space, and apocalyptic themes.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY (Medford, MA)
Department of Art and Art History
M.A. in Art History
http://ase.tufts.edu/art
Alice I. Sullivan, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
alice.sullivan@tufts.edu
Research interests: medieval art, architecture, and visual culture in Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres; image theory; historiography; patronage; monasticism; cross-cultural interactions.
TULANE UNIVERSITY (New Orleans, LA)
Art Department
M.A. in Art History, interdisciplinary; Ph.D. with concentration in Art History
http://www.tulane.edu/~art/arthistory/grad.html
Holly Flora, Professor and Associate Dean. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
hflora@tulane.edu
Research Interests: manuscript illumination, devotional art, women and gender, and the art and architecture of late medieval Italy.
UNIVERSITÄT BERN (Bern, Switzerland)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte / Institute for Art History
Masters, interdisciplinary
https://www.ikg.unibe.ch/course_of_study/index_eng.html
Beate Fricke, Professor. Ph.D., University of Trier
beate.fricke@ikg.unibe.ch
Research Interests: the history of images using perspectives from philosophy, cultural anthropology, the natural sciences, and theology, with a special emphasis on theories of art and the image.
UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
See Inter-University Ph.D. Program in Art History
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
See Inter-University Ph.D. Program in Art History
UNIVERSITÉ DE QUÉBEC AT MONTRÉAL
See Inter-University Ph.D. Program in Art History
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (Tuscaloosa, AL)
M.A. in Art History (joint program with the University of Alabama at Birmingham)
art.ua.edu/
Jennifer Feltman, Associate Professor. Ph.D. The Florida State University
jmfeltman@ua.edu
Research Interests: the ways in which works of medieval art, whether architecture, sculpture, or manuscripts, intersect with aspects of culture, such as intellectual history, religious practice and political discourse, including the reuse and adaptation of sculpture, medieval eschatology in visual art, the education of the clergy in the thirteenth century, and the relation of practices of memory and visual exegesis in the creation of sculptural programs.
Tanja L. Jones, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Florida State University.
tljones10@as.ua.edu
Research Interests: Identity in the visual arts of late medieval and early modern courts of Italy and France. Teaches early Christian/Byzantine, early medieval, and late medieval art.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (Bristol, England, UK)
Centre for Medieval Studies
M.A. in Medieval Studies
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/2023/arts/ma-medieval-studies/
Department of History of Art
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in History of Art
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/study/postgraduate/
Peter Dent, Senior Lecturer in History of Art. M.A., Ph.D., Courtauld.
Peter.Dent@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests: sculpture of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy.
Lucy Donkin, Senior Lecturer in History and History of Art. M.A., Ph.D., Courtauld.
Lucy.Donkin@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests: medieval perceptions of place, with particular reference to Italy and its relationships with the wider Mediterranean region and transalpine Europe.
Beth Williamson, Professor of Medieval Culture. M.A., Ph.D., Courtauld.
Beth.Williamson@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests: Beth Williamson is a scholar of medieval culture, with particular interests in visual, material, and aural culture, in other words in how things looked and sounded in the middle ages, especially within medieval religious practice.
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/programDisplay.cfm?ProgramNameID=9
Georgios Makris, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Birmingham.
georgios.makris@ubc.ca
Research Interests: He specializes in the arts of Byzantium and its neighboring lands, with particular emphasis on the material culture and archaeology of monasticism as well as the dissemination and usage of portable objects across the medieval Mediterranean.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY (Berkeley, CA)
History of Art Department
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://arthistory.berkeley.edu
Diliana Angelova, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
angelova@berkeley.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine art
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE (Irvine, CA)
PhD Program in Visual Studies
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/visualstudies/
Roland Betancourt, Professor. PhD, Yale University.
roland.betancourt@uci.edu
Research Interests: Byzantine Art, Material Culture and Theology; Critical and Queer Theory
Matthew Canepa, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, Art History, School of Humanities. Ph.D. University of Chicago.
matthew.canepa@uci.edu
Research interests: Art and Archaeology of Persia and the Ancient Iranian World; Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian empires; Hellenistic Iran and Central Asia; Eurasian late antiquity; cross-cultural interaction; critical theory
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles, CA)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.ucla.edu/the-program-/graduate
Lamia Balafrej, Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Aix-Marseille.
lbalafrej@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests: arts of the medieval and early modern Islamic world, including painting and the arts of the book, intersections of materiality and aesthetic, art and its relation to labor and ecology, and cross-cultural exchange.
Meredith Cohen, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University.
mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests: art, architecture, and urban development of high medieval Europe (c. 1000 – c. 1450).
Sharon Gerstel, Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Gerstel@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests: Byzantine and Western Medieval Art. Trained in art history and religious studies, Gerstel’s work focuses on the intersection of ritual and art in Byzantium. Her first book, Beholding the Sacred Mysteries, was published as a CAA Monograph. Gerstel has also excavated and served as a pottery specialist at numerous sites in Greece.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE (Riverside, CA)
Department of the History of Art
M.A. in Art History
http://arthistory.ucr.edu/graduate/index.html
Conrad Rudolph, Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
conrad.rudolph@ucr.edu
Research Interests: Conrad Rudolph is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He has special interests in such topics as medieval social theories of art, the ideological use of art, monasticism and art, the origin of Gothic art, and art and social change. He has held Guggenheim, J. Paul Getty, and Mellon fellowships.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA (Santa Barbara, CA)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture (UCSB does not admit M.A. only students but the M.A. might be conferred in rare cases)
http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/graduate/index.html
Heather Badamo, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan
badamo@arthistory.ucsb.edu
She specializes in East Christian and Byzantine art. Her research interests include: theories of cultural exchange, philosophies of religious violence, strategies for communal self-fashioning as manifested in the visual arts.
Nuha N. N. Khoury, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
nuhakhoury@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Nuha Khoury is a specialist in mediaeval and early modern Islamic architecture and urbanism (7th—9th; 16th—17th century); her work and teaching include critiques of the field, Islamic art and iconography, and modern art of the Arab world.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, IL)
Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art
http://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate-program
Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Art History and the College of Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History. Ph.D., Cornell University.
nsatkinson@uchicago.edu
Research interests: public space, urban history, soundscapes, geography and travel as well as the architecture and urbanism of late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. His research has concerned the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in the construction of pre-modern urban societies.
Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University
berlekam@uchicago.edu
Research interests: Islamic art and architecture, with research specialization in Arabic and Persian manuscripts of the late Abbasid and Mongol periods (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries). Current research interests include Neoplatonic cosmography and the imaging of natural history, alchemy, and astrology; the application of medieval Islamic traditions of medical illustration to Chinese medicine; and how theoretical understandings of talismans relate to their visual forms.
Tamara Golan, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
tgolan@uchicago.edu
Research interests: medieval and early modern art from northern Europe, particularly the visual and material culture of Switzerland and southern Germany; intersections of art, science, and the law; paradigms of expertise; artistic fraud and deception; and questions of materiality
Karin Krause, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Religious Culture. Ph.D., University of Munich, LMU.
krause@uchicago.edu
Research interests: Christian visual culture of Byzantium and the pre-modern Mediterranean.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER (Boulder, CO)
Department of Art and Art History
M.A. in Art History
http://cuart.colorado.edu/degrees/graduate/
Kirk Ambrose, Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
kirk.ambrose@colorado.edu
Research Interests: Late antique and medieval art and architecture, especially sculpture; art-historical methodology.
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Newark, DE)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/graduate/
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
School of History of Art, ECA
M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. in History of Art
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/history-art-mphilphdmsc-research
M.Sc. in Global Premodern Art: History, Heritage and Curation
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/global-premodern-art-history-heritage-and-curation-msc
Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art History. Ph.D., MIT
glaire.anderson@ed.ac.uk
She is an historian of Islamic visual culture during the age of the caliphs (650-1250), with a focus on early Islamic Iberia.
Heather Pulliam, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., University of St. Andrews.
h.pulliam@ed.ac.uk
She specializes in early medieval art, particularly of Britain and Ireland.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (Athens, GA)
Lamar Dodd School of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.uga.edu/areas-of-study/graduate-studies/art-history-ma-phd
Asen Kirin, Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
email: aekirin@uga.edu
Specialization: Byzantine Art, Late-Medieval Art of Eastern Europe
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Department of Fine Arts
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Art History
https://finearts.hku.hk/finearts/maah/overview/
https://finearts.hku.hk/finearts/postgraduate/postgraduate-studies/
Susanna McFadden, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
smcfadde@hku.hk
Research interests: The art, architecture, and archaeology of the Greco-Roman and late antique Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on the medium of wall painting.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (Champaign, IL)
Art History Program, School of Art and Design
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.illinois.edu/content/graduate/programs/art-history-phd/
and
School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
http://phd.faa.illinois.edu
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor and Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
dfr1@illinois.edu
Research Interests: Landscapes in the Islamic world, the Mediterranean, and South Asia.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (Iowa City, IA)
School of Art and Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.uiowa.edu/graduate-program
Robert Bork, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
robert-bork@uiowa.edu
Research Interests: Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic Art. A specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, he teaches a variety of courses in medieval and northern Renaissance art. Bork now serves as president of AVISTA, the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art. His current research projects explore the geometry of Gothic architectural drawings, and the methodological relationships between art history and the sciences.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, KS)
Kress Foundation Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.ku.edu/overview-1
Anne D. Hedeman, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
ahedeman@ku.edu
Research Interests: French 13th-15th century illuminated manuscripts, royal patronage, illuminations of Mirrors of Princes, and the relationships between the first French humanists and the arts around 1400.
Areli Marina, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Medieval & Early Modern Studies Program. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
arelimarina@ku.edu
Research Interests: Italian art, architecture, and urbanism from 1000-1500; historiography of medieval architecture.
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (Lexington, KY)
School of Art and Visual Studies
M.A. in Art History and Visual Studies
http://finearts.uky.edu/art/programs/graduate/art-history-visual-studies
Alice Christ, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Alice.Christ@uky.edu
Research Interests: Late Roman and Early Christian Art; Byzantine Art; icons, toga statues and Roman ideals of manhood; medieval and modern Russian icon-painting.
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE (Louisville, KY)
Department of Fine Arts
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://louisville.edu/art/
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, MD)
Department of Art History and Archeology
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.umd.edu/graduate-program
Elizabeth Honig, Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
elizahonig@yahoo.com
Research Interests: European Art, 1400-1700.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST (Amherst, MA)
Department of Art and Art History
M.A. in Art History
http://www.umass.edu/arthist/
Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor, Art History Program. Ph.D., Columbia University.
sdrimmer@arthist.umass.edu
Research Interests: medieval art of northern Europe and the British Isles, manuscript illumination, the history of manuscript restoration, visual historiography and propaganda.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, MI)
History of Art Department
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/histart/
Contact: histartadmiss@umich.edu
Christiane Gruber, Professor and Department Chair. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
cjgruber@umich.edu
Research Interests: Islamic painting; Persian and Turkic book arts; codicology and paleography; texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension (mi‘raj); Islamic representations of the Prophet Muhammad; modern Islamic visual and material culture; and Iranian post-revolutionary art and visual culture.
Elizabeth Sears, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art. Ph.D, Yale University.
esears@umich.edu
Research Interests: European representational arts of the high and later Middle Ages with a focus on manuscript illumination, image theory, attitudes toward antiquity, disciplinary historiography.
Achim Timmermann, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Ph.D., Courtlauld Institute, University of London.
achimtim@umich.edu
Research Interests: High and late Gothic architecture of central and eastern Europe, the visual culture of the eucharist, and representations of Christian-Jewish relationships in medieval art. Current research focuses on late medieval didactic imagery (in particular the iconography of the Good and Bad Prayer), and on the use of Passion imagery in the performance of late medieval and early modern rituals of criminal punishment.
Paroma Chatterjee, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Chicago
paroma@umich.edu
Research Interests: Artistic encounters in the medieval Mediterranean, medieval image theories, ekphrasis, and sculpture. She has articles published and/or forthcoming in various journals including the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Art History, Word & Image, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, and Oxford Art Journal among others. Her book, Living Icons: The ‘Vita’ Image in Byzantium and Italy, 11th-13th centuries, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. A second book project on the conceptual values of medieval sculpture is in progress.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, MO)
School of Visual Studies
M.A., Ph.D. in Visual Studies
https://visualstudies.missouri.edu/
Anne Rudloff Stanton, Associate Professor, Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
StantonA@missouri.edu
Research Interests: The relationships of decoration and function in devotional manuscripts from 14th-century England; marginal narratives; networks of women’s patronage; the material culture of queens
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, NC)
Art Department
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
https://art.unc.edu/art-history/graduate-programs/
Christoph Brachmann, Mary H. Cain Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Technical University Berlin.
cbrachma@email.unc.edu
Specialization: Late medieval and early modern art and architecture
Research Interests: He specializes in the art and architecture of medieval and early modern Europe, with an emphasis on French and German art including the artistic exchange of these two European countries. Another field of his interest is 19th and 20th century architecture.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Denton, TX)
Department of Art History
M.A. in Art History
https://cvad.unt.edu/ah/ma-art-history
Lisa N. Owen, Assocaite Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
Lisa.Owen@unt.edu
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval rock-cut monuments in India; sacred space as medium; patterns of patronage; constructions of identity; carved imagery and space shape devotional practices.
Full-time students in the M.A. in Art History program are eligible to serve as Teaching Assistants in the CVAD Department of Art History, the UNT Art Gallery, the Texas Fashion Collection, and elsewhere within the college. Each quarter-time appointment carries a salary of over $2,800, such that half-time employment for the academic year would provide a salary of more than $11,000.
Exemplary students with a half-time TA appointment are also eligible to receive a tuition waiver for 6 hours of coursework per semester through the Toulouse Graduate School’s Tuition Benefit Plan.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, PA)
History of Art Department
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/arthistory/graduate/about-the-program
Ivan Drpić, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Harvard University.
drpic@sas.upenn.edu
He specializes in the art, architecture, and material culture of Byzantium and its Slavic neighbors in Southeastern Europe, with emphasis on the period from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries. His areas of research and teaching interest include the interface between the visual and the verbal, medieval aesthetics and theories of the image, the agency of art objects, the history of subjectivity, and the cultural interactions between Byzantium and the Slavic world.
Sarah M. Guérin, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Toronto.
guerinsa@sas.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Art and Architecture with a special interest in the production, function, use and meaning of objects; anthropology and theology of the image; materiality and material culture; arts of the liturgy; trade routes and economic history; and the development of models for a global art history in the Middle Ages. Current project: a book-length manuscript providing a major study of Gothic ivories in their social context
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh, PA)
History of Art and Architecture
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://www.haa.pitt.edu/graduate
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (Eugene, OR)
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://arthistory.uoregon.edu/grad/
Maile Hutterer, Associate Professor. PhD, New York University.
msh@uoregon.edu
Specialization: Gothic Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Medieval Architecture, specifically research on the flying buttress.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, CA)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://dornsife.usc.edu/ahis/graduate-studies-new/
Carolyn Malone, Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
cmalone@usc.edu
Research Interests: Professor Malone studies Medieval art from 300 to 1300, but her research emphasizes French Romanesque and English Gothic architecture and sculpture.
Amy Powell, Associate Professor. PhD, Harvard University.
akpowell@usc.edu
Research Interests: Northern European Art and Visual Culture 1300-1700
Ann Marie Yasin, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
yasin@usc.edu
Research Interests: Ann Marie Yasin specializes in Roman and late antique art and material culture and holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Classics and Art History. Her primary research interests include monuments and commemoration; social lives of ancient objects and buildings; material culture of ancient religion; and the history of collecting and displaying Roman and early Christian antiquities.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (Austin, TX)
Department of Art and Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/academic/art-history/graduate/overview
Ann Collins Johns, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
acjohns@austin.utexas.edu
Research interests: late medieval and Renaissance art and architecture of Siena and the role of monasticism in the arts of this period.
Stephennie Mulder, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
smulder@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Islamic ceramics, architecture, and archeology. She has worked for over ten years as the ceramicist for Princeton University’s excavations of the Islamic site of Balis, Syria.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Department of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/graduates/art-history
Jill Caskey, Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
jill.caskey@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Caskey’s interests in medieval art gravitate toward the mobile – merchants, conquerors, pilgrims, relics, and portable objects – and their intersections with the immobile, or architecture, wall painting, mosaics, and architectural sculpture. Shehas probed these intersections primarily by analyzing the dynamics of patronage in southern Italy and Sicily from ca. 1050 to 1350.
Adam S. Cohen, Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
as.cohen@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Northern European art between the eighth and thirteenth centuries, manuscript illumination, the intersection of art, philosophy, and ritual practice.
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
History in Art Department
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://finearts.uvic.ca/historyinart/prospective_students/graduate/index.shtml
Evanthia Baboula, Assistant Professor. D.Phil., Oxford University.
ebaboula@uvic.ca
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval funerary practices; warfare. Literary and visual sources of Late Byzantine period. Cross-cultural interactions in the east Mediterranean. Encounter of east and west in Crusader period. The post-Byzantine art and architegture of Greece (focus on the Ottoman period).
Catherine Harding, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University College, University of London.
charding@uvic.ca
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance cosmographical drawings and diagrams; visual literacy in late medieval Italian culture; pilgrimage and art in fourteenth-century Italy (especially Orvieto); pre-modern feminist theory and art history; façade mosaic decoration in Italian medieval churches. Late medieval and early Renaissance Italian art to roughly 1500, especially the relationship between text and image.
Marcus Milwright, Professor, Director for Program of Medieval Studies. D.Phil., Oxford.
mmilwrig@uvic.ca
Research Interests: Islamic art and archaeology. Traditional craft practices in the Middle East. Cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean. History of Medicine
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (Charlottesville, VA)
McIntire Department of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History
http://www.virginia.edu/art/artarch/
Fotini Kondyli, NEH Horace H. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor. Ph.D., University of Birmingham.
fk8u@virginia.edu
Specialization: Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Research Interests: Byzantine and Frankish material culture, the construction of Byzantine spaces, communal identity, household archaeology and Byzantine non-elites. She also works on cultural, economic and political networks in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Byzantine period (13th- 15th c.). She is presently writing her first monograph on the material culture of Late Byzantine rural societies, focusing on the socio-economic and spatial organization of non-elite groups, and the impact of global demographic and economic phenomena, such as the Black Death, on local communities. Her work combines archaeology, archival research, spatial analysis, and the digital humanities.
Eric Ramírez -Weaver, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
emr6m@virginia.edu
Research Interests: Ramírez-Weaver studies the theological, philosophical, and scientific ideas that informed the creative decisions of artists living in eastern and western medieval cultures from the third to fifteenth centuries.
Lisa Reilly, Commonwealth Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
lar2f@virginia.edu
Research Interests: Reilly’s chief research interest is in the history of Norman architecture in England, France and Italy. She is preparing a book on Norman visual culture throughout the Romanesque world. Her interests also include medievalism and the understanding of the Middle Ages by later eras.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, WA)
Division of Art History, School of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.washington.edu/art-history/
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (London, Ontario, Canada)
Department of Visual Arts
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/grad/degrees.html
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON (Madison, WI)
Department of Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
Dual M.A. in Art History/School of Library and Information Studies
Ph.D. Minor in Transdisciplinary Study of Visual Cultures
Graduate Certificate in Transdisciplinary Study of Visual Cultures
https://arthistory.wisc.edu/graduate-programs/
Steffani Bennett, Assistant Professor, Joan. B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art. Ph.D., Harvard University.
steffani.bennett@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Cross-cultural interactions between pre-modern Japan and China; fifteenth- and sixteenth-century painting in Japan and China; development of the landscape genre in medieval Japan; medieval monks.
Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
tedale@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine art; Romanesque art (religious experience and the senses); San Marco in Venice; cultural exchange and race in Medieval Venice; the cult of the saints; monsters; portraiture; cultural appropriation and hybridity.
Jennifer Pruitt, Associate Professor, Howard and Ellen Louise Schwartz Faculty Fellow in Islamic Art and Architecture. Ph.D., Harvard University.
jpruitt@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Islamic art and architecture in the Arabic-speaking world; patronage, utilization, and response to the built environment; Fatimid architecture; medieval Cairo; architecture of the Arabian Gulf.
Financial aid comes in the form of fellowships, assistantships, research funds, and travel funds. The Admissions and Financial Aid Committee reviews applications for funding annually (in the spring), and appoints students with fellowships and assistantships based on merit. Because of the scarcity of departmental funding, students are encouraged to search broadly across campus and beyond, and to apply for assistantships and fellowships outside the department if eligible. Students should direct all questions regarding financial aid to the Department Administrator, the DGS, or the faculty member who is serving as the chair of the Admissions & Fellowships Committee.
The Department’s main goal is to recruit and retain the most promising students. Eligibility for any kind of financial aid depends on faculty assessment of the student’s potential as well as her or his performance in making satisfactory progress in the graduate program. Students must be in good standing to receive funding. Funding is prioritized for students in the Ph.D. program; the maximum amount of departmental aid is five years (and that is by no means typical or guaranteed). The department balances many considerations in addition to individual student merit, including: the number of existing guarantees to specific students; specific programmatic needs (i.e., which courses are allowed to have teaching assistants, and what project assistantships are available because professors have received grants); and equity in distributing appointments among the fields of concentration represented by the pool of applicants. In addition to faculty members on the Admissions and Fellowships Committee, the professors who will be teaching the courses with teaching assistants and those who have gotten a project assistantship through a grant are consulted during the review process.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE (Milwaukee, WI)
Department of Art History
M.A. in Art History (Thesis Track or Curatorial Track)
Dual M.A. in Art History/Library and Information Science
https://uwm.edu/arthistory/graduate/
Richard A. Leson, Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
leson@uwm.edu
Research Interests: The visual culture of the Middle Ages, with specific concentrations in the areas of medieval manuscript illumination, heraldry, sigillography, devotional culture, gender studies, museum studies, and art associated with the crusades.
The Department of Art History currently has six teaching assistant positions in the fields of Art History and Art Museum Studies. Qualified current and incoming students are eligible to apply for graduate teaching assistantships. The appointment includes tuition remission and a small monthly stipend. Students are expected to take six credits while teaching part time (approximately 13-15 hours per week). The recommended deadline for those applicants who wish to be considered for a Teaching Assistantship is January 15. For including students, preference will be given to those with high GPAs, strong writing samples, and outstanding letters of recommendation.
UNIVERSITY OF YORK (York, England, UK)
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Art History
https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/prospective-postgraduates/
Tim Ayers, Professor. Ph.D., Courtauld Institute, University of London.
tim.ayers@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Later medieval art and architecture in England, especially stained glass; art and architecture in the medieval university.
Meg Boulton, Associate Lecturer. Ph.D., University of York.
meg.boulton@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: sculpture, space, theories of viewing, and reader reception(s).
Sarah Brown, Professor; Course Director of the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management. M.A., University of York.
sarah.brown@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: ecclesiastical architecture, stained glass, history and conservation of stained glass of the Middle Ages and Gothic Revival.
Katharine Harrison, Associate Lecturer. Ph.D., University of York.
katharine.harrison@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: medieval creation and adaptation of textual and visual narratives across media, including stained glass, sculpture, manuscripts, and wall paintings; transmission of hagiographic narratives; relationships between monumental narratives and their architectural settings and audiences.
Jane Hawkes, Reader. Ph.D., Newcastle upon Tyne.
jane.hawkes@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Anglo-Saxon art and architecture, especially figurative sculpture; iconography; medieval revivals in 19th-century England and Ireland.
Richard McClary, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.
richard.mcclary@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: architecture and ceramic arts of the wider Iranian world from the 10th to the 14th centuries.
Jeanne Nuechterlein, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
jeanne.nuechterlein@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Flemish, Netherlandish and German art of the 15th and 16th centuries; Van Eyck, Dürer, Holbein.
Hanna Vorholt, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
hanna.vorholt@york.ac.uk
Research Interests: Illuminated manuscripts, and the representation of Jerusalem in the medieval West.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, TN)
Department of History of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://as.vanderbilt.edu/historyart/graduate.php
Jelena Bogdanović, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
jelena.bogdanovic@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and Mediterranean.
Elizabeth J. Moodey, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
elizabeth.j.moodey@vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests: The history of illuminated manuscripts, the culture of the Burgundian court, and the art of medieval Europe, with an emphasis on materials and technique and questions of patronage.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE (Williamstown, MA)
Graduate Program in the History of Art in Collaboration with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
M.A. in Art History
http://gradart.williams.edu
Peter Low, Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
plow@williams.edu
Research Interests: Art produced and viewed within a monastic setting, and, in particular, on the relationship within that setting of art and pilgrimage and art and liturgy.
YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, CT)
Department of the History of Art
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.yale.edu/graduate/
Jacqueline E. Jung, Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University.
jacqueline.jung@yale.edu
Research Interests: The art and architecture of medieval Europe, with an emphasis on the figural sculpture of Gothic Germany and France; the body, kinetics, and emotional expression in German and Italian Gothic sculpture.
YORK UNIVERSITY (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Department of Visual Art and Art History
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History; combined M.A./M.B.A.
http://www.yorku.ca/gradarth/
Malcolm Thurlby, Professor. Ph.D., University of East Anglia.
thurlby@sympatico.ca
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture and Canadian architecture. Current research focuses on Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture in Britain and nineteenth-century architecture in Canada.
OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMS WITH SPECIALIZATIONS IN MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND/OR MATERIAL CULTURE
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY (New York, NY)
Center for Medieval Studies
M.A. in Medieval Studies (medieval art history concentration possible)
http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/graduate.html
Nina Rowe, Professor (Art History). Ph.D., Northwestern University.
nrowe@fordham.edu
Research Interests: The art of northern Europe in the high Middle Ages (12th-14th century). Christian representations of Jews and Judaism in contexts ranging from monumental cathedral façade sculpture to miniature hand-held carved ivories. The production and reception of illuminated manuscripts in both the medieval and the modern eras.
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Lincoln, UK)
Medieval Studies Programme
M.A. in Medieval Studies
https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/course/medstdma/
Michele Vescovi, Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., Università di Parma.
MVescovi@lincoln.ac.uk
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture; cult of saints and shrine culture; sacred objects and the natural environment; ritual practices and the activation of images/architecture; digital modeling.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (South Bend, IN)
Medieval Institute
M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies
http://medieval.nd.edu/graduate-program/
Marius Hauknes, Assistant Professor of Art History. PhD, Princeton University.
mhauknes@nd.edu
Research Interests: intersections of art, science, and theology; medieval cave painting and rock art; historiography of medieval art; and the instrumentality of visual artifacts in medieval astrology and medicine.
Robin M. Jensen, Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology. Ph.D., Columbia University.
rjensen3@nd.edu
Research Interests: The interpretation of early Christian art and architecture in light of its theological significance, ritual performance, and cultural context.
YALE INSTITUTE OF SACRED MUSIC; YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL (New Haven, CT)
M.A.R. and M.Div., in Religion and the Arts (visual arts concentration possible)
http://www.yale.edu/ism/academics/arts.html
http://divinity.yale.edu/admissions/master-arts-religion
Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor, Yale Divinity School. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
vasileios.marinis@yale.edu
Research Interests: The art and architecture of early Christianity and the Middle Ages, particularly the ritual, liturgical arts, and material culture of these periods.