Graduate Programs in Medieval Art History
The following census attempts to collect the most essential information about North American 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 we have 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 editors to changes so that the list can be updated in regular fashion.Dr. Adam S. Cohen
Department of Art
The University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
(416) 946-7554 (phone)
(416) 978-1491 (fax)
as.cohen@utoronto.ca
Dr. Ben Withers
Chair, Department of Art
207 Fine Arts Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0022
(859) 257-8151
bwithers@uky.edu
Originally compiled with the assistance of Ms. Olena Konyeva and Ms. Spice Maybee at the University of Toronto.
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BROWN UNIVERSITY
M.A., 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/Departments/Art_Architecture/graduate/
Sheila Bonde, Professor, 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. Prof. Bonde received the Sheridan award for teaching in 2002 and is currently Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence at Brown.
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
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/
Dale Kinney, Professor.
dkinney@brynmawr.edu
Late antique through medieval European art and architecture; spolia. Prof. Kinney's most recent publications deal with 12th-century Rome. She continues to teach and supervise graduate students while holding a half-time appointment as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Martha Easton, Lecturer.
measton@brynmawr.edu
Research Interests: illuminated manuscripts, feminist and gender theory, hagiography, the historiography of medieval art, and the history of collecting medieval art.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/arth/handbook97.html
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/arth/about_arth.html
Contact: Prof. Edward Olszewski, Graduate advisor for the program
ejo@cwru.edu
Charles Burroughs, Professor. Ph.D. Warburg Institute, London University.
ceb33@case.edu
Research Interests: Italy between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries (the "long Renaissance"); anonymous or vernacular practices underlying broad-based studies of cultural and environmental change, notably in Rome at the onset of the "Renaissance."
Stephen N. Fliegel, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Early Western Art. M.A. University of Sheffield.
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER
Ph.D. in Art History (specialize in the history of modern and contemporary art, European and American art; African, Oceanic, and Pre-Colombian art)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/arthi/
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/
Holger Klein, Associate Professor, Byzantine and Medieval art. Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.
hak56@columbia.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art and archaeology.
Stephen Murray, Professor, Medieval, Gothic art. Ph.D., London.
sm42@columbia.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art, Gothic architecture, social and cultural history and the application of digital media to Art History.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/index.htm
Cynthia Robinson, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
cynrobin@earthlink.net
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.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Annabel J. Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
wharton@acpub.duke.edu
Research Interests: Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture, Modern Architecture. Annabel Wharton edits the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor. Ph.D. Yale University.
c.bruzelius@duke.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Architecture and Sculpture in France and Italy, especially Southern Italy; the architecture of the Franciscans and Dominicans in Italy and France and its impact on the urban environment; death and burial in churches and cemeteries in the 13th and 14th centuries; strict active enclosure and monastic architecture for women. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome.
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EMORY UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.emory.edu/HART/programs/graduate.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.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fsu.edu/~arh/
Paula Gerson, Professor of Medieval Art, Department Chair. Ph.D. Columbia University.
pgerson@mailer.fsu.edu
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.gwu.edu/~art/
Jeffrey C. Anderson, Professor of Art History and Department Chair. Ph.D., Princeton University.
anderson@gwu.edu
Research Interests: Professor Anderson teaches medieval art, in particular that of the Byzantine Empire.
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/
Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Medieval. 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.
HUNTER COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
M.A. in Art History
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/art/MA/index.htm
Wayne Dynes, Professor; Ph.D. NYU
Research Interests: Medieval Art, 20th-Century Art, Theory and Criticism.
Richard Stapleford, Professor; Ph.D. NYU
Research Interests: History of architecture; Late antique-early medieval art.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~ahist/index.html
Christiane J. Gruber, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests: illustrated manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, illustrated "Books of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascension" (Mi'rajnamas), contemporary mural arts of Iran.
Diane Reilly, Associate 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.
Deborah Deliyannis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
Research Interests: Early medieval architecture, archaeology, history, and historiography
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
M.A. general, Ph.D. program allows specialization
http://www.jhu.edu/~arthist
Herbert L. Kessler, Professor: Early Christian and Medieval Art. Ph.D., Princeton University.
herbkessler@earthlink.net
Research Interests: Early Christian and medieval art, Italian medieval art, and image theory.
Henry Maguire, Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Art.
hmaguire@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Byzantine secular art and literature; mosaics of the Basilica of Eufrasius at Porec; medieval sculpture in Venice.
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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.art.msu.edu/
Susan Madigan, Associate Professor: Byzantine, Medieval. Ph.D. University of Chicago.
madigan@msu.edu
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/curriculum/art_history.htm
Jonathan Alexander, D.Phil. 1964, M.A. 1963, B.A. 1960, Oxford.
jonathan.alexander@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Medieval European art, medieval and Italian Renaissance manuscript illumination.
Thelma Thomas, Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1990
tkt2004@nyu.edu
Research interests: Late antique, early Christan and Byzantine art and archaeology, especially textiles and sculpture, and historiography.
Marvin Trachtenberg, Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1967.
mtberg@aol.com
Research Interests: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture and urbanism; problems of temporality in architecture and historiography; problematics of architectural authorship; the origins of perspective.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.niu.edu/art
Ann van Dijk, Assistant Professor, Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval art, Ph.D. 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
M.A (no terminal M.A. program, awarded in certain cases), Ph.D. in Art History http://www.northwestern.edu/graduate/academic/art-history.html
http://www.arthistory.northwestern.edu/graduate/
Cecily Hilsdale, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago.
cjhilsda@northwestern.edu
Research interests: Byzantine art and cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean.
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
M.A, Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.osu.edu/?p=d_graduate
Howard Crane, Ph.D. Harvard, Islamic Art
Anne M. Morganstern (emerita), Ph.D., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Gothic and Northern Renaissance Art.
morganstern.2@osu.edu
Research Interests: Professor Morganstern’s primary area of expertise is in the history of European Late Medieval and Northern Renaissance figurative arts, the Iconography of Gothic tombs, Art Patronage, and Medieval French and English heraldry.
James Morganstern, Ph.D., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Byzantine and Western Medieval Architecture and Architectural Decoration.
morganstern.1@osu.edu
Research Interests: Professor Morganstern’s primary areas of expertise are in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture, and Western Medieval Architecture.
Christine B. Verzar, (emerita) Ph.D., University of Bazel, Switzerland, Medieval Art.
verzar.1@osu.edu
Research Interests: Professor Verzar’s area of expertise is the History of Medieval Art, with specializations in Italian Medieval Art, the History of Public Monuments and the East-west Connections during the Crusades. In addition to being an authority on Romanesque sculpture and architecture in Italy, she has published on the public monuments in medieval city squares, issues of text and image in Romanesque sculpture, and late medieval sculpture in Germany.
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
M.A, Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.psu.edu/
Anthony Cutler, Ph.D., Art History, Emory University.
axc6@psu.edu
Research Interests: The author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Cutler has established himself as an international expert on ivory carving.
Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Ph.D., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts.
exs11@psu.edu
Research Interests: Prof. Smith has published on Romanesque sculpture in France, England, and the Low Countries, as well as on the structure of French Romanesque and Italian Gothic architecture. Current research projects include a study of architecture and sculpture in the Abruzzi in the transitional period of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the use of the domical vault in Italian Gothic architecture.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
http://www.princeton.edu/~artarch/
Ph.D. in Art History
Nino Zchomiledse, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Bern; Habilitation, University of Tübingen
nzchomel@princeton.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.
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QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://www.queensu.ca/art/programs_arth.html
Cathleen Hoeniger, Associate 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.
John Osborne, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of London. Medieval and Byzantine Art History.
JohnOsborne@pigeon.carleton.ca
Research Interests: Material culture (art history and archaeology) of early medieval Europe and Byzantium, Rome in the Middle Ages, Venice in the Middle Ages, image-word relationships in medieval manuscripts, the classical tradition in Western art and architecture.
Ron Spronk, Professor, Ph.D., Groningen University
spronkr@post.queensu.ca
Research interests: Early Netherlandish painting; technical art history.
Malcolm Thurlby, Adjunct Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D. University of East Anglia.
thurlby@sympatico.ca
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture and Canadian architecture. Current research focuses on Romanesque and early Gothic architecture and sculpture in Britain and nineteenth-century churches in Canada.
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RICE UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://arts.rice.edu/
At this point, Rice is not accepting applications. For further information contact the administration at arts@rice.edu
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK
M.A, Ph.D. in Art History
http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/gradsite/graduate_index.htm
Archer St. Clair Harvey, Professor, Early Christian and Byzantine, Ph.D. Princeton University.
Research Interests: Late antique art. She is also active as an archaeologist and for the last decade has been Associate Director of the American Academy in Rome/Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma Palatine East Excavation.
Erik Thuno, Assistant 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.
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SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
M.A. in Art History
http://www.scad.edu/academic/majors/arth/ma_mfa.cfm#ma
Rebecca Turner, Ph.D., Yale University.
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture. She is interested in the relationship between liturgy and architecture during those periods.
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
M.A. in Art History
http://meadows.smu.edu/default.asp?page=ArtHistory
http://meadows.smu.edu/
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Professor. Retiring Spring of 2008
acarr@smu.edu
Research Interests: My focal interest is Byzantium in the wake of the Crusades; I work especially on the art of the Crusader kingdom of Cyprus. My current research traces a great icon over its 800-year life as a miracle-worker on the island of Cyprus, from the period of the Crusades till now. My courses treat the interaction of Christian and Islamic cultures in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
Pamela A. Patton, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Boston University.
ppatton@smu.edu
Research Interests: Intersections between visual culture and religious/cultural identity in the art of medieval Iberia; monastic art; pictorial narrative and image-text relationships; Jewish art in medieval Europe.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.stanford.edu/graduate.php?content=phd
Bissera Pentcheva, Assistant Professor, Medieval Art, Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Research Interests: Byzantine art, medieval image theory, ritual and liturgy, icons and relics, gender.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK at BINGHAMTON
M.A., Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture
http://arthist.binghamton.edu/prog.htm
Barbara Abou-El-Haj, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
abouel@binghamton.edu
Research Interests: Social history of medieval art and architecture; political economy of monastery and cathedral towns and of the medieval cult of saints; Frontier Cultures and Convivencia in Medieval Spain.
Nancy Um, Assistant 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.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism
http://www.art.sunysb.edu/maphd.html
Sarah T. Brooks, Adjunct Lecturer, Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Research interests: Byzantine art and architecture, the shaping of communal memory and personal identity through monumental art and architecture commemorating the dead; sculpture, metal icons, female patronage, and cross-cultural exchange in the later Middle Ages.
Anita Moskowitz, Professor. Ph.D, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
amoskowitz@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Research Interests: A specialist in Italian Gothic and Renaissance sculpture. She teaches courses in Early Renaissance art in Italy, sixteenth century art in Central Italy, Venetian Renaissance Art, Problems in Gothic and Renaissance Sculpture, and Art Theory and Criticism from Antiquity through the Renaissance.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
M.A in Art History
http://finearts.syr.edu/graduate_artHistoryMA.html
Meredith Lillich, Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., Columbia University.
mlillich@syr.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture; stained glass; monastic arts.
Matilde Mateo, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Santiago de Compostela.
Research Interests: Art of the Middle Ages; Classical art; Romantic aesthetics.
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/arthist.html
Elizabeth Bolman, Associate Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College.
ebolman@temple.edu
Research Interests: Coptic art and architecture; early medieval and Byzantine art and architecture.
Prof. Gerda Panofsky, Emeritus. (Gothic and Renaissance)
Prof. Martin Werner, Emeritus. (Early Christian, Modern American)
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://ase.tufts.edu/art/programsGraduate.asp
Madeline H. Caviness, Professor of Art History. Ph.D., Harvard University. [Emerita as of 2007]
madeline.caviness@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Art., Medieval Art and Architecture, Medieval Art and audience, Women and medieval art and literature, Iconoclasm and iconophobia.
Eva Hoffman Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Ph.D., Harvard University.
eva.hoffman@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Islamic Art, Portable Arts, medieval art of the Mediterranean World.
Karen Overbey, Assistant Professor of Art History, Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 2003
karen.overbey@tufts.edu
Research interests: Medieval Art and Architecture, Early Irish Art, Relics and Reliquaries.
TULANE UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History, interdisciplinary Ph.D. with concentration in Art History
http://www.tulane.edu/~art/arthistory/grad.html
William Tronzo, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
wtronzo@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art, early Christian and Byzantine art, trecento Italy.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History, certificate in Museum Studies
http://www.arts.arizona.edu/arh/
Therese Martin, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
therese@email.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art in Spain; Romanesque architecture and sculpture; Female patronage; Urban development in Middle Ages; Art as political propaganda; 12th-c. palaces; Early Islamic art and architecture.
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/programDisplay.cfm?ProgramNameID=9
Carol Knicely, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
knicely@interchange.ubc.ca
Research Interests: Carol Knicely's areas of interest lay in Medieval art and society with emphasis on Western Europe, especially France. In addition to courses in her field she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in cultural theory and methodology of art history. Her research and publications have focused on pilgrimage cults and Romanesque art (including the development of reliquaries and monumental sculpted portals) especially in France between AD 1000-1200 with a special interest in exchanges between lay and monastic cultures as they are mediated through visual imagery. She has published on the Cult of Sainte Foy at Conques, on the art historian, Meyer Schapiro, and has a book forthcoming dealing with the portal sculptures of Souillac.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://arthistory.berkeley.edu/graduate.html
Elizabeth Honig, Associate Professor, European Art, 1400-1700.
eahonig@socrates.berkeley.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/the_program/graduate.html
Irene Bierman, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
bierman@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests: Islamic art, especially the art and architecture of Cairo. The author of numerous articles, her recent book, Writing Signs, The Fatimid Public Text was published by University of California Press.
Sharon Gerstel, Associate 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
M.A. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.ucr.edu/graduate_resources/index.html
Conrad Rudolph, 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
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/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=4
C. Edson Armi, Professor. M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.
cearmi@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Edson Armi is a specialist in Romanesque architecture and sculpture, twelfth-century Gothic art, and American twentieth-century commercial design. He has won the Society of Architectural Historians' Founders Award, C.I.N.O.A. International Art-History Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
M.A., Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art
http://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate
Persis Berlekamp, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago.
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.
Robert S. Nelson, Professor Emeritus (as of June 2005). Ph.D., New York University.
olin@uchicago.edu
Research Interests: Art of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, especially that of Byzantine Empire; history and theory of art history. Current research focuses on the relation of Byzantine art to culture and society, the reception of Byzantine illuminated manuscripts in the Italian Renaissance, and the constitution of Byzantine art and history from 1750 to the present. Other topics of interest: vision and visuality and the functioning of holy objects in society.
Rebecca Zorach, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago.
Research interests: Late medieval and Renaissance art, primarily French and Italian; gender studies and critical theory; print culture and technology; new media and tactical media; contemporary Thai art. Current interests include mathematics, imagination and neoplatonism; art, religion and the body; print collecting and antiquarianism in the early modern period; and collaborative process in contemporary art/activism.
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
M.A. in Art History and Art Education
http://www.daap.uc.edu/art/marthistory/
http://daap.uc.edu/art/marthistory
Dr. Teresa Pac; Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton
pacta@ucmail.uc.edu
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
M.A. in Art History
http://www.colorado.edu/arts/arthistory
Kirk Ambrose, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan.
kirk.ambrose@colorado.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Art and Architecture, Art-Historical Methodology.
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/grad.html
Lawrence Nees, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
nees@udel.edu
Research Interests: Early Medieval Art.
Dale Kinney, Adjunct Professor (Professor at Bryn Mawr College), Joint and Visiting Faculty.
Research Interests: Medieval Art and Architecture.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/content/graduate/programs
Note: There is also a distinct Ph.D. in Architectural History or Landscape Architectural History, in the School of Architecture's and Department of Landscape Architecture's History and Theory Program; see http://www.landarch.uiuc.edu/
Anne D. Hedeman, Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
ahedeman@uiuc.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, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture. Ph.D., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts.
amarina@uiuc.edu
Research Interests: Italian art, architecture, and urbanism from 1000–1500; historiography of medieval architecture.
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
dfr1@uiuc.edu
Research Interests: the visual culture and built environment of the Islamic world, especially Spain.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
M.A., PhD. in Art History
http://www.art.uiowa.edu/
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.
Wallace J. Tomasini, Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
wallace-tomasini@uiowa.edu
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance art in Italy. He specializes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance.
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
M.A. in History of Art
http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/ahgrad.php
Alice Christ, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Art, icons, toga statues and Roman ideals of manhood; medieval and modern Russian icon-painting.
Benjamin C. Withers, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research Interests: Early Medieval Art, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts; problems in book design and construction, and gender/ masculine identity in the early middle ages.
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/arthistory.html
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
M.A. in Art History
http://www.umass.edu/arthist
Kristine Haney, Professor. Ph.D., New York University.
khaney@arthist.umass.edu
Research Interests: Her courses at UMass, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977, include surveys of early medieval and Byzantine art (AH 506), Romanesque and Gothic art (AH 507), the history of the decorative arts (AH 527) and seminars on various medieval topics, including the cult of the saints, Romanesque sculpture and manuscript illumination. Her research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, ranging over the period from late antiquity through Romanesque and encompass, in addition to art history, the disciplines of history, theology, education, the liturgy, medicine and law.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/haprograms/index.html
Contact: histartadmiss@umich.edu
Sussan Babaie, Assistant Professor, History of Art. Ph.D. New York University/Institute of Fine Arts.
Research Interests: Late medieval and early modern Islam; research interests include built environment and visual culture of the Persianate world and visual encounters across Eurasia.
Elizabeth Sears, Professor, History of Art. Ph.D., Yale University.
Research Interests: European representational arts of the high and later Middle Ages with a special focus on manuscript illumination, religious, secular and didactic imagery, attitudes toward antiquity, and historiography.
Achim Timmermann, Assistant Professor, History of Art. Ph.D., University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art).
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.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology
http://aha.missouri.edu/programs/gGeneral.html
Marcus Rautman, Associate Professor, Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Ph.D., Indiana University.
RautmanM@missouri.edu
Research Interests: The interplay of society and visual culture underlies my study of the early Middle Ages, especially during periods of political transition. The dynamics of cultural adaptation are of particular interest in understanding the east Mediterranean region on both urban and rural scales. Later Byzantine Macedonia presents one such artistic environment that survives in churches, monumental decoration, and manuscripts. Contemporary documents allow us to explore the role played by individual patrons and social groups in sponsoring an architectural revival in Thessaloniki in the early 14th century. Located in western Asia Minor, Lydian Sardis offers a contrasting view of urban life in late antiquity. In all these research settings I have tried to combine disciplinary methods-history, archaeology, and art history-to provide a fuller background for understanding the monuments and people of the past.
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 illumination and function in devotional manuscripts from 14th-century England, with a particular focus on a group of prayerbooks decorated with narrative sequences in their initials and margins. Some of these manuscripts have been connected with the patronage or use of Isabella of France, the queen of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III. Another current study looks broadly at architectural projects, manuscripts, and other objects that have been connected to her.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.unc.edu/depts/art/histgrad.html
Glaire Anderson, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., MIT glaire@email.unc.edu
Research interests: Early and medieval Islamic architecture and urbanism; Al-Andalus; medieval Islamic villas, gardens, and court cultures; cross-cultural encounters in medieval art and architecture; Orientalism and visual culture; historiography of Islamic art.
Carolyn L. Connor, Professor of Classics. Ph.D., IFA, NYU.
clconnor@email.unc.edu
Research interests: Byzantine art with a specialization in middle-Byzantine church decoration, monasticism, and architecture. Dr. Connor offers courses and seminars on Byzantine Art for graduate and undergraduate students which are available to our art history students in the Art Department as well.
Jaroslav Folda, N. Ferebee Taylor Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
jfolda@email.unc.edu
Research Interests: Meaning and content in Medieval art from c. 300 to the end of the 15th century with emphasis on works of art in their historical context. Medieval figural art with special emphasis on manuscript illumination, icons, panel painting, metalwork and sculpture.
Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University.
dverkerk@email.unc.edu
Research Interests: The interplay between images and texts in early medieval manuscripts, particularly the ways in which images interpret the meanings of texts through visual references to extra-textual elements such as popular sermons, liturgical rites, political necessities, and catechisms.The fluid and diverse iconography found in early christian catacombs and sarcophagi, with rich references to death rituals. Irish high crosses as potential sculptural responses to pilgrimage to Rome.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
M.A. in Art History
https://www.art.unt.edu
Mickey Abel, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.art.unt.edu/divisions/arthistory.cfm
Research Interests: Medieval Architecture and Sculpture with an emphasis on Romanesque France and Spain. Research focus is on thecommunity reading/intrepretation of spatial configurations; political identities created through spatial pilgrimages; psychological/metaphysical transitions initiated by the movement through physical environments.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
M.A. in Art History
http://www.nd.edu/~art/
Charles Barber, Associate Professor, Byzantine and Western Medieval Art History. Ph.D., Courtauld Institute, University of London.
Charles.E.Barber.11@nd.edu
Research Interests: Works primarily on Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Has written extensively on theories of the image in Byzantium. This will continue to be a dominant aspect of his work. Immediate projects include the influence of Aristotelian thinking on eleventh-century habits of viewing; publishing (with students) the Snite Museum's collection of Greek and Russian icons; examining the poetics of post-Byzantine painting; the Apocalypse in the Greek tradition. Recent topics include: iconoclasm; the icon; art and worship; the book.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/
Renata Holod, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
rholod@sas.upenn.edu
Research Interests: She has done archaeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Central Asia and Turkey, and is currently directing an archaeological survey and settlement study project in Tunisia. As Convenor, Steering Committee, and Master Jury Member of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, she has interacted with architects and clients throughout the world.
Robert A. Maxwell, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Yale University.
maxwellr@sas.upenn.edu
Research Interests: sculpture, architecture, urbanism, and manuscripts of the Romanesque and Early Gothic periods, with an interest in medieval art's historiography.
Robert G. Ousterhout
Research Interests: architecture of Constantinople, Cappadocia, and Jerusalem, understood within broad cultural and artistic contexts.
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
lasilver@sas.upenn.edu
Professor Silver is a specialist of northern art 1400-1700, with primary research interests in Dutch, Flemish and German painting and print-making of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture
http://www.haa.pitt.edu/graduate/index.html
Fil Hearn, Professor emeritus, Medieval and Modern Architecture. Ph.D., Indiana University.
fil@pitt.edu
Research Interests: teaches Medieval and modern architecture, with principal publications in 12th-century England and architectural theory.
Alison Stones, Professor. Ph.D., University of London.
mastones@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Medieval manuscript illumination, with a particular interest in the illustration of vernacular texts in French. She teaches medieval art and architecture, iconography and palaeography. She is a corresponding fellow of the Société nationale des antiquaires de France and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Frank Toker, Ph.D. Harvard University.
ftoker@pitt.edu
Research Interests: History of art and architecture, medieval through modern
John Williams, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Mellon Professor.
jww23+@pitt.edu
Research Interests: specializes in the history of Spanish art, 700-1150, especially Romanesque art, architecture, and manuscript illumination.
Bruce Venarde, Adjunct Professor, History Department. Ph.D. Harvard.
Research interests: medieval European history, with special interest in France, ecclesiastical history, gender and sexuality, and literary and artistic cultures in the central Middle Ages.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
M.A., Ph.D. in History of Art
http://arthistory.uoregon.edu/
Mary-Lyon Dolezal, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago.
mdolezal@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Byzantine manuscripts of the ninth through fourteenth centuries; text and image relationships as well as the function of books in society.
Richard Sundt, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
rsundt@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic architecture; problems of space and gender in Gothic architecture, particularly relating to the churches of both the male and female branches of the mendicant orders.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/ahis/programs/
Carolyn Malone, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
cmalone@usc.edu
Dr. Carolyn Malone teaches Medieval art from 300 to 1300, but specializes in French Romanesque and English Gothic architecture and sculpture. She received Ph. D. degrees in Medieval Studies and the History of Art (1973) and stresses an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/art_history/graduate_program.cfm
Joan A. Holladay, Professor. Ph.D., Brown University.
holladay@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Gothic Art in Germany and France, and her particular interest is in sculpture and manuscript illumination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. She is co-director of Gothic Sculpture in America, a project of ICMA.
Glenn Peers, Associate Professor, Early Medieval and Byzantine Art. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
gpeers@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: theoretical aspects of Byzantine art; theological and hagiographical problems; Christian-Muslim interaction, erotics and animism in Byzantine and East Christian art.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/graduates/art-history/index.html
Jill Caskey, Assistant Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., Yale University.
jill.caskey@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Patronage and eclecticism in 12th and 13th c. southern Italy.
Adam S. Cohen, Assistant Professor, Medieval Art. 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.
Linda Safran, Associate Professor, Byzantine Art. Ph.D., Yale University.
linda.safran@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Byzantine art; Southern Italy (Salento); Reception of public artwork; Art and identity.
Jens Wollesen, Associate Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D.,University of Heidelberg.
wollesen@chass.utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Medieval art, Art of the later Middle Ages in Italy. Painting and Sculpture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Social and historical environment of privately owned panel paintings around 1300. Artistic interrelations between Italy and France around 1300.
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
http://finearts.uvic.ca/historyinart/masters/
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
Ariane Isler-de Jongh, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University de Montreal.
Research Interests: History of photography and photomechanical processes (19th c.); Colour theory; Medieval and Renaissance stained glass.
Gillian Mackie, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., University of Victoria.
gmackie@finearts.uvic.ca
Catherine Harding, Director of Medieval Studies, Ph.D., London.
charding@finearts.uvic.ca
Research Interests: Late medieval and early Renaissance Italian art to roughly 1500, especially the relationship between text and image.
Marcus Milwright
mmilwrig@finearts.uvic.ca
Research interests: art and archaeology of the Early and Middle Islamic period; craft practices and Early Christian and Byzantine Art.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
http://www.virginia.edu/art/artarch/
M.A., Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History
Lisa Reilly, Associate Professor. Ph.D., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts.
lar2f@virginia.edu
Research Interests: history of Norman architecture in England, France and Italy
Marion Roberts, Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research Interests: Gothic art and architecture, especially England. English antiquarian studies and publications.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.washington.edu/div_arthistory/index.html
Anna Kartsonis, Professor. Ph.D., New York University.
kartsoni@u.washington.edu
Research interests: Late Antique/Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval Art.
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/html/prog_masters_base.html
Kathryn Brush, Professor of Art History, Ph.D., Brown University.
kbrush@uwo.ca
Research Interests: medieval art and architecture, especially Romanesque and Gothic art in northern Europe; liturgical furnishings; sculpture; historiography; the collecting of medieval art and museum culture.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://art.wisc.edu/?folder=content&pageid=12&parentid=3
Thomas E.A. Dale, Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
tedale@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Romanesque art, medieval Italian and Byzantine art, medieval Venice (with special interests in corporeality, ritual, vision and cultural appropriation from Byzantium and Islam)
Gail L. Geiger, Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University.
Research Interests: Italian Medieval (Trecento), Renaissance and Baroque art (with special interests in race and gender, and Dominican spirituality)
Jane C. Hutchison, Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research Interests: Dutch, Flemish, and German Painting and Graphic Art from 1350-1700; History of Museums and Collecting
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/historyart/acad_grad.html
Ljubica D. Popovich, Professor. Ph. D., Bryn Mawr College.
Research Interests: Specialist in Byzantine, Slavic, Early Christian, and Western Mediaeval art, and director of graduate studies. Her research focuses on the images of the Prophets and their textual messages represented in the drums of Byzantine churches. Her current interest is directed toward American political cartoons dealing with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and especially the Bosnian War.
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.art.wayne.edu/graduate.php
Contact: John Richardson, Graduate Officer for the Department of Art and Art History, john.richardson@wayne.edu, or Dr. Sarah Bassett, Graduate Advisor for Art History, aa2582@wayne.edu
Sarah Bassett, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College.
aa2582@wayne.edu
Research Interests: Reuse of ancient sculpture and monuments in Late Antique Constantinople and the role of sculpture in the formation of a discrete urban identity; images of the early church and the uses of style for the formation of sacred identity.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
M.A. in Art History
http://www.williams.edu/gradart/
Peter D. Low, Associate Professor of Art. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
peter.D.Low@williams.edu
Research Interests: Early Medieval Book Illumination; Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture and Architecture.
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YALE UNIVERSITY
M.A., Ph.D. in Art History
http://www.yale.edu/arthistory/graduate/graduate_homepage.html
Jacqueline E. Jung, Assistant Professor, Western Medieval Art; Ph.D., Columbia University
jacqueline.jung@yale.edu
Research interests: Monumental sculpture of the 12th through 14th centuries in northern Europe, especially Germany; liturgical furnishings; devotional images and practices; relations between art and ritual; the communicative role of the body; the interplay of visionary and tactile experience in medieval art.
Robert S. Nelson, Professor, Byzantine and Mediterranean Art, Ph.D. New York University
robert.nelson@yale.edu
Research interests: Byzantine art in general--painting, word and image, patronage, church programs, devotional images, relations with Islamic and Italian art, the reception of Byzantine art in Renaissance and the Modern periods; the history of art history.
Kishwar Rizvi, Assistant Professor, Islamic Art and Architecture, Ph.D. MIT
kishwar.rizvi@yale.edu
Research interests: Religious art and architecture, with a focus on Safavid Iran; Sufism and shrine formation; interactions between Middle East, South Asia and Europe in the medieval and early modern periods; pilgrimage in Islam; historiography of Islamic art.
YORK UNIVERISITY
M.A. in Art History
http://www.yorku.ca/ahistory/
Shirley Ann Brown, Associate Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D., Cornell University.
sabrown@yorku.ca
Research Interests: Professor Brown is a medievalist whose research areas are the art of early medieval Ireland and Britain, and the art and architecture of the Norman World, with special emphasis on the results of the meeting of different artistic heritages. As originator and organizer of the Registry of Stained Glass Windows in Canada, Professor Brown also teaches the history of stained glass and investigates nineteenth and twentieth century architectural glass produced in Canada or imported to Canada from abroad.
Malcolm Thurlby, Professor, Medieval Art. Ph.D. University of East Anglia.
thurlby@sympatico.ca
Research Interests: Medieval art and architecture and Canadian architecture. Current research focuses on Romanesque and early Gothic architecture and sculpture in Britain and nineteenth-century churches in Canada.
