Evan Gatti
Professor of Art History
Department: History and Geography
Email: egatti@elon.edu
Professional Expertise
Brief Biography
Evan A. Gatti, professor, specializes in medieval art with a focus on 11th-century art in northern Italy and Germany. Gatti served as co-editor (with Sigrid Danielson) and author for Envisioning the Bishop: Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages (Brepols 2014) and Art in Italy (Oxford Bibliographies Online - Medieval Studies, 2012). Gatti collaborated with Eliza Garrison on the chapter dedicated to the Quedlinburg Casket for A Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages (Brill Publishers, 2022) and is co-edtor (with Angelo Silvestri) and author for Episcopal Power and Patronage in the European Middle Ages (998-1503) (Brepols, forthcoming). Gatti has also published on the portraits of Sigebert, Bishop of Minden (1022–36) for Gesta (2022) and a 13th-century scroll that includes a copy of frescoes depicting scenes from Acts of the Apostles (Capitular Archives, Vercelli) for IKON (Brepols Publishers, 2021), and is one a co-author for essays on multispectral analysis as applied to this scroll and six others held by the Fondazione del Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vercelli for Arte Cristiana (in press, 2025) and Studi Francesi (forthcoming).
At Elon, Gatti is the associate chair for the Department of History and Geography and coordinator for Elon's Art History program. She helped develop a new departmental minor, Museum Studies and Public History. Gatti served as chair of the Committee on Elon History and Memory (2021-2024) and the associate director of the Elon Core Curriculum (2014-2019). Gatti has received the Elon College Excellence in Service/Leadership Award (2009), the Student Government Association's Gerald F. Francis Award for Outstanding Faculty Member (2012), and the Elon College Excellence in Mentoring Award (2019).
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Education
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2005 |
PhD in Art History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation: “Developing an Iconography of the Episcopacy: Liturgical Portraiture and Episcopal Politics in Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Manuscripts” |
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1998 |
MA in Art History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thesis: “Reading the Heavens: An Eschatological Interpretation of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Ascension of Christ on the Quedlinburg Portable Altar” |
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1994 |
BA with concentrations in Art History & Studio Art, Furman University |
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1993 |
Studies Abroad Program in Art & Art History |
Employment History
2022-present / Professor of Art History, Elon University
2012-2022 / Associate Professor of Art History, Elon University
2014-2017 / Associate Director of the Elon Core Curriculum, Elon University
2006-2012 / Assistant Professor of Art History, Elon University
2005-2006 / Assistant Adjunct Professor of Art History, Elon University
2003-2004 / Full-Time Instructor in Art, Furman University
2001-2003 / Part-Time Instructor in Art, Furman University
2000-2001 / Samuel H. Kress Curatorial Intern, North Carolina Museum of Art
1995-1996 / Gallery Director, Coleman Fine Art and Restoration, Charleston, SC
Courses Taught
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ARH 1700 |
Introduction to Museum Studies & Public Culture (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022) |
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ARH 210/0 |
Art History of the Ancient World (2007-2008, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, Spring 2025) |
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ARH 211/0 |
Art History of the Medieval & Premodern World (2007-2014, Fall 2017- Spring 2018, 2020-2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024) |
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ARH 301/0 |
Art History Methodologies (Fall 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, Spring 2021, 2024) |
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ARH 330 |
The Un/Ethical Museum (Spring 2018) |
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ARH 333 |
Jewish, Christian, & Islamic Cultures: Contact & Conflict (Fall 2006, Spring 2014) |
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ARH 341/0 |
Issues in African Art (Fall 2007, Spring 2022) |
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ARH 342 |
Issues in Islamic Art (Fall 2009) |
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ARH 3707 |
Illuminating the Past: Art + Science (Spring 2025) |
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ARH 375 |
Patronage & Plunder: The Politics of Collecting (Fall 2010, Fall 2014) |
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ARH 495/4970 |
Senior Seminar in Art History (Spring, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017, Fall 2022,2023, 2024) |
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ART 221 |
Art & History I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages (2005-2007) |
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ART 222 |
Art & History II: Renaissance to Contemporary (Fall 2005) |
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ART 230 |
Non-Western Art & History (2006-2007) |
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ARH 481 |
Internship in Art History (Nicole Tower, Danielle Brown, Rachel Feld, Crystal Sharp, Nic Zuhse) |
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ARH 489 |
Teaching & Learning Apprentice (Fall 2017: Claire Swanson, Fall 2018: Emily Clark, Spring 2021: Phoebe Mock) |
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ART 495 |
Senior Seminar in Studio Art (Spring 2007) |
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ARH 498/499/9 |
Independent Research in Art History |
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GBL 1940/2940 |
Bodies of Knowledge: Healthcare and the History of Art in Italy (Fall 2021/Winter 2022 Cancelled, Fall 2022/Winter2023; Fall 2023/Winter 2024) |
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GST 122/222 |
Italy’s Heritage: Past is Present (Winter Term 2007-2010, 2012, 2014) |
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COR 110 |
The Global Experience /Section Title: “Monuments & Memories: What We Choose to Remember & What We Choose to Forget” (Spring 2016) |
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COR 357 |
Rome. (Spring and Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) Counts towards Minor in Classical Studies and Italian Studies |
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COR 499/9 |
Independent Research in the Core Curriculum / Melissa Purgert (Fall 2016) |
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ECF 211A |
Elon College Fellows Seminar for the Arts and Humanities (Fall 2011, 2013, 2014) |
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Elon 101/0 |
First-Year Advising Seminar (Fall 2015-2017, 2021) |
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WGS 300 |
Current Controversies in Feminism/Women’s & Gender Studies capstone (Spring 2010, 2011) |
Leadership Positions
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2023 |
Invited to review an essay for Religion (an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal on religions and theology, published by MDPI). |
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2023 |
Invited by Church History to review Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy, Routledge Research in Art and Religion. New York: Routledge, 2022. (Declined and recommended a junior colleague) |
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2022 |
Invited to review a dossier for promotion to the rank of Professor for a Public Scholar of Curatorial Practices and Visual Art, jointly appointed in the of Museum Studies Program (School of Liberal Arts) and the Art History, Educations and Therapy (AHET) Department with Tenure in Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). |
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2022 |
Invited to review an article submitted to Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives in Medieval Art. |
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2018-2022 |
President, EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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2021-2022 |
Member, Scientific Committee for “Dantastic: Images and Imaginations of Dante in Popular Culture” to be held at the Accademia di Firenze, Italy December 2022. |
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April, 2021 |
Selected to be one of 40 participants (from over 175 submissions) for “Building an Engaged Art History, a Virtual Convening about Public Scholarship, Civic Engagement, and Community-based Practices in the Study and Teaching of Art History and Visual Culture” Co-sponsored by Erin Benay, Case Western Reserve University & Laura Holzman, Indiana University IUPUI, April 22-23, 2021. |
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2019-2021 |
Member, Scientific Committee for “Building Dioceses” to be held in Burgos, Spain, December 2020. |
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2018 |
Invited to review an article submitted to Medieval Perspectives |
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2018-2109 |
Member, Scientific Committee for “Medievalism and All That” Accademia di Firenze, Italy December 2019. |
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2016 |
Composed blog entry on Sigebert of Minden for the Bishop of the Month blog, sponsored by the Power of the Bishop Conference. http://powerofthebishop.blogspot.com/2016/06/june-2016-bishop-of-month-sigebert-of.html |
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Invited to review an article submitted to Art History Pedagogy & Practice |
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2015-2018 |
Elected Vice President, EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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2014 |
External reader for Krysta Black, “Sacred History and Christian Kingship in the León Bible of 960,” submitted to fulfill the requirements for the PhD in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Under the direction of Dr. Dorothy H. Verkerk. |
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2012-2015 |
Elected Secretary, EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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2011 |
Invited to review an article submitted to Gesta |
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Current Projects
In the summer of 2022, Gatti cofounded Videntes: A Multispectral Imaging Collective. In summer 2024, Videntes convened Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: A Summer Digital Humanities Institute in collaboration with the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli, Italy. In fall 2024, Videntes won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities/Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities to support a second weeklong digital humanities institute at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation.
As part of her work with Videntes, Gatti is exploring a facsimile edition and commentary volume of the Rotolus with Scenes from the Acts of the Apostles held in the Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli. Gatti was also a founding member and former president of EPISCOPUS: The Society for the Study of Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and works closely with the Power of the Bishop Conference for whom she is co-editing a volume of recent conference proceedings (The Bishop as Patron, Brepols, expected 2025).
Grants Awarded
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2024 |
Instructor and collaborator for “Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation (University of Colorado Colorado Springs)” awarded a $246,320 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities/Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities |
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2024 |
CATL mini grant to support Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: A Summer Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli, Italy |
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2023 |
FR&D Summer Fellowship & Grant for travel, Elon University |
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2023 |
Elon Innovates Grant (unsuccessful) |
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2023 |
Endangered Archives Grant from the British Library (unsuccessful) |
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2022 |
FR&D, Grant for travel, Elon University |
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2021 |
FR&D, Grant for travel, Elon University |
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CATL Grant for “An Expanded & Collaborative Approach to Teaching with Elon’s African Art Collection,” Elon University |
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Un-grading & Contract Grading in ARH/HST Courses as Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Center for Writing Excellence Grant, Elon University |
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2020 |
FR&D, Grant for publication costs/travel, Elon University |
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2019 |
Elon College of Art & Sciences Excellence in Mentoring Award |
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2019-2020 |
Sabbatical with travel grant, Elon University |
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2018 |
Subvention for publications, travel to Library of Congress, Elon University |
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2016 |
Travel Award (Berlin and Quedlinburg, Germany), Elon University |
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2015 |
Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University |
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2013 |
Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome |
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2012-2013 |
Sabbatical with travel grant, Elon University |
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2012 |
Student Government Association’s Gerald F. Francis Award for Outstanding Faculty Member |
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2011 |
Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University |
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2010 |
FR&D Travel Grant, Elon University |
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (with Elizabeth Dobbins, Religious Studies & International Studies Major, Honors Fellow), Elon University |
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2009 |
Summer Research Fellowship, Elon University |
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Elon College Excellence in Service/Leadership award. |
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2007 |
Academic Technology and Computing Committee Grant, Elon University |
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Hultquist Award for New Faculty Research, Elon University |
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Faculty Research and Development Travel Reimbursement, Elon University |
Publications
Books |
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In progress |
Academic commentary volume and teaching guide for a facsimile (a machine-made reproduction) of the Vercelli Rotulus (Roll) with Scenes of the Apostles (Archivio di Capitolare di Vercelli, Rotolo Figurati, 5) to be produced and published in collaboration with Giovanni Scorcioni (Facsimile Finder) and the Videntes Collective. |
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Books - Edited Volumes |
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In Press |
Co-edited Angelo Silvestri, The Bishop as Patron the Middle Ages. (Book proposal accepted by Brepols in Sept. 2020, manuscript accepted after blind peer review with minor revisions suggested; due to publisher in Summer 2025). |
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2014 |
Co-edited with Sigrid Danielson, Envisioning the Bishop: Image and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Church Studies, 29, ed. by Sigrid Danielson and Evan A. Gatti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014). |
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Reviews and |
Jean A. Truax, sehepunkte 14 (2014) [15.09.2014] |
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Dominik Waßenhoven. H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews (2015) |
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Sabina Flanagan, Parergon 32 (2015) 230 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/591827/pdf |
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J Christine Kleinjung, The Catholic Historical Review, 102 (2016): 377-378 |
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Tanja Skambraks, Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte , 35, 2016, p. 314 |
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Sara E. Ellis Nilsson, in Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2016, p. 155 |
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Véronique Julerot, in Revue Mabillon, 27, 2016, pp 359-360 |
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Journal – Edited Issue |
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2010 |
Guest editor, Peregrinations: A Journal for the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, 3, http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol3_1/index.html. |
Books Chapters |
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In Press |
Co-authored with Angelo Silvestri, “Introduction,” The Bishop as Patron the Middle Ages (accepted after blind peer review with minor revisions suggested; due to publisher in Spring 2024). |
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In Press |
“Diplomatic Gestures: Art and Ambivalence among the Italian Episcopacy,” accepted after blind peer review with no revisions; due to publisher in Spring 2024). |
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2022 |
Co-authored with Eliza Garrison, “A Reliquary Revisited: The St. Servatius Casket and its Contexts,” “A Reliquary Revisited: The St. Servatius Casket and its Contexts,” in A Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages, Companions to European History, 29 (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022), 308–363. |
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2020 |
Co-authored by Scott Windham, Andrea A. Sinn, Kristin Lange, Derek Lackaff, Anthony Hatcher, Evan A. Gatti, and Janelle Papay Decato, “Educating for Global Civic Participation and a Career: German Studies in the Twenty-First Century at Elon University,” in Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), pp. 177-189. |
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2014 |
Co-authored with Sigrid Danielson, “Introduction,” in Envisioning the Bishop: Image and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Church Studies, 29, ed. by Sigrid Danielson and Evan A. Gatti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 1-12. |
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2014 |
“The Ordo Missae of Warmund of Ivrea: A Bishop’s ‘Two Bodies’ and the Image In Between,” in Envisioning the Bishop: Image and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Church Studies, 29, ed. by Sigrid Danielson and Evan A. Gatti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 181-214. |
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2012 |
“In the Apse or In Between: The Benedictional of Engilmar and Traditions of Episcopal Patronage in the Apse at Porec,” Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints (Bibliotheca Hagiotheca II), ed. John Ott and Trpimir Vedriš, Zagreb: Hagiotheca-Humaniora, 2012, pp. 137-168. |
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2007 |
“Building the Body of the Church: A Bishop's Blessing in the Benedictional of Engilmar of Parenzo,” The Bishop Re-formed: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, (Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West), ed. by John S. Ott and Anna E. Trumbore, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, pp. 92-121. |
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Journal Articles |
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2025 |
“Il Rotolo degli Apostoli e le pergamene didattiche dell’Archivio Capitolare / The Apostles' Roll and the didactic parchments of the Capitular Archive between history and liturgies,” Arte Cristiana, 944 (2025): 350-355. |
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Forthcoming |
“Seeing Together: An Innovative and Collaborative Multispectral Imaging Initiative,” with Helen Davies, Heather Wacha, Catherine Albers-Morris, in Studi Francesi. Forthcoming 2025. |
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2022 |
"Seeing through Sigebert: A Re-Examination of the Liturgical Portraits of Sigebert of Minden (1022–36)," Gesta, 61.2 (2022): 109-151. |
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2021 |
“The Vercelli Rotolus: Images of Acts of the Apostles and Acts of Imitation.” IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies, 14 (2021): 67-76. |
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2017 |
Jeffrey Scott Coker and Evan A. Gatti, “Interdisciplinary Capstones for All Students.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education 5, no. 2 (05, 2017): 1-10. |
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2010 |
"In a Space Between: Warmund of Ivrea and the Problem of (Italian) Ottonian Art” Peregrinations: A Journal for the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, 3, http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/vol3_1/index.html. |
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2000 |
“Reviving the Relic: An Investigation of the Form and Function of the Reliquary of St. Servatius, Quedlinburg,” The Athanor, XVIII, 7-15. |
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Bibliographies |
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2013 |
Sigrid Danielson and Evan A. Gatti, “Art in Italy”. Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, ed. by Paul E. Szarmach, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. |
Reviews |
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2022 |
“Hamburger, Jeffrey and Joshua O'Driscoll, eds. Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 (New York, NY: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2021) for The Medieval Review (TMR) 28 November 2022. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/35695/38721 |
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2021 |
“Kitzinger, Beatrice (Ed.) and Joshua O’Driscoll (Ed.). 2019. After the Carolingians. Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019) Early Medieval Europe, vol. 29, 19.2 (2021) 1-3. |
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2019 |
“Lappin, Anthony John and Elena Balzamo, eds. Dominus Episcopus: Medieval Bishops between Diocese and Court. Series: Konferenser 95. (Stockholm, Sweden: Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien, 2018).Contributors: Elena Balzamo, Anthony John Lappin, Emil Lauge Christensen, Inka Moilanen, Martin J. Ryan, Kirsi Salonen, Martin Neuding Skoog, Reima Välimäki, Rosa Vidal Doval, Kurt Villads Jensen. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/27005 |
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2014 |
“Hourihane, Colum, ed. Patronage: Power & Agency in Medieval Art. The Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers XV. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013 for The Medieval Review (TMR) 7 October 2014. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/18690/24803 |
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2003 |
“In Transition, Sabbatical Work: New Ceramic Vessels and Monotypes” Carolina Arts Online, November 2003. |
Presentations
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Papers in Medieval Studies & Art History |
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2024 |
“The Rotolo con Atti degli Apostoli (ACVc #5) and Practice of Looking,” in Seeing Together: Multispectral Imaging & Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Vercelli Rotoli Figurati at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 2024. |
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2024 |
Presenter, Learning Technologies and the Case Study of the Capitular Archive in Vercelli, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2024. |
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2024 |
Presenter, Episcopus Twenty Years On (A Roundtable), International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2024. |
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2023 |
Presenter, Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022 (virtual session). |
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2023 |
“Imag(e)ining the Medieval Bishop: Teaching with Facsimiles,” in Teaching the Medieval Bishop (A Roundtable), Co-Sponsored by Episcopus and TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies), International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 (hybrid). |
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2022 |
Presider, “Decoration and Devotion,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 (virtual session). |
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2022 |
“Acting their Parts: The Iconographies of Episcopal Authority modeled through the Vercelli Rotulus”, “Becoming the Bishop: Examinations of Episcopal Self-Fashioning" |
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2022 |
Presenter, “Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy”, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022 (virtual session). |
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2022 |
With Buffie Longmire-Avital and Charles Irons, “Discovering and Centering Black Institution,” Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Symposium at Guilford College, March 31, 2022. |
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2022 |
“Narrative Creativity and Acts of Imitation on the Vercelli Rotulus” in Beyond Transfer and Revival: Narrative Creativity in Medieval Italian Mural Decoration (11th–13th c.), College Art Association, Thursday March 3, 2022 (virtual session) |
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2021 |
“Legacies of Privilege: Making Meaning for Medieval Manuscripts,” in Manuscript Privileges II, The Forty-Sixth Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 9-10, 2021, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (Originally scheduled for April 2020, canceled, reapplied, and held as a virtual conference.) |
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2020 |
“The Vercelli Rotulus: Images of the Acts of the Apostles and an Examination of the Arts of Imitation.” Fourteenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies, Rijeka, Croatia, 28-29 May 2020 (canceled and rescheduled as a virtual conference held on Oct. 15-16, 2020) |
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2020 |
“What Matters about Episcopal Things.” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2020. (Cancelled due to Covid-19; did not resubmit for 2021) |
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2019 |
“The Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,” in The Things They Carried: Bishops and Their Objects, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England July 2019. |
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2019 |
“’Drawn in ink, with love.’ Desire in Looking at and Looking Back,” in Mit manigir slachti wunnin: The Politics of Pleasure in the Holy Roman Empire, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2019. |
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2019 |
“Re-Presentation and a Theology of Images,” in Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2019. |
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2017 |
“Diplomatic Gestures: Art and Ambivalence among the Italian Episcopacy,” The Power of the Bishop III: The Bishop as Diplomat 1000-1400, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, June 8-9, 2017. |
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2016 |
“Frescoes in Fragments: What Material Loss Allows Us to See,” The Material World of the Early Middle Age, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 2016. |
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2014 |
“At the Millennium: Henry II and his Bishops from 1014 to 2014,” in Henry II and his Bishops sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and Conventus: Problems of Religious Communal Life in the High Middle Ages, Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2014. |
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2014 |
“The Vercelli Roll: The No-Thing That It Is and the Thing It Might Be,” in No/Thing: Medieval Art and Apophasis, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2014. |
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2013 |
“Episcopus ‘al Fresco’: Episcopal Iconography in the Painted Programs of Northern Italy at the turn the Millennium,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2013. |
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2012 |
“From Aquileia to Aosta: An Art of Northern Italy or Bishops at the Borders,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 2012. |
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2011 |
“The Bishop’s Two Bodies,” The Midwest Art History Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 15, 2011. |
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2010 |
“Magnani, Morandi & Medieval ‘Modernism, ’” Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 20, 2010. |
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“A Bishop’s Blessing on the Border or In-between: The Frontispiece in the Benedictional of Engilmar,” Hagiotheca: Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints, Porec, Croatia, May 27-30, 2010. |
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“Images on the Edge and About the Center: ‘Ottonian’ Art in Northern Italy” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13, 2010. |
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2008 |
"In a Space Between: Fragmentary Frescoes at Aosta and the Problem of the Middle Ages" 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2008. |
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2007 |
“A Romanesque Church with a Roman Floor, Ottonian Murals and a Baroque Ceiling? Mixed Messages and Modern Meanings at Aosta,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 2007. |
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2005 |
"Space and Spirituality: Public and Private Aspects of Liturgical Celebration," Southeastern College Art Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 28, 2005. |
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2003 |
“Episcopal Sanctity and Earthly Authority: A Study in Liturgical Portraiture from Saints' Lives to Sacramentaries,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 16, 2003. |
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“Act and Ideology: Liturgical Performance and Episcopal Politics in Medieval Dedication Miniatures,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2003. |
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2002 |
“Episcopal Authorities in Liturgical Portraiture from Ottonian Manuscript Illumination,” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (sponsored jointly by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 23, 2002. |
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2001 |
“Portraiture as Politics in the Sacramentary of Warmundus d'Ivrea," Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbia, South Carolina, October 26, 2001. |
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1998 |
"Reading the Heavens: An Eschatological Interpretation of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Ascension of Christ on the Quedlinburg Portable Altar," The Graduate Student Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 27, 1998. (Received Gunther P. Stamm Award for outstanding paper.)
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Session Organizer / Moderator / Respondent |
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2024 |
Co-organizer with Heather Wacha, Seeing Together: Multispectral Imaging & Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Vercelli Rotoli Figurati at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 2024. |
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2024 |
Organizer with Heather Wacha, Learning Technologies, and the Case Study of the Capitular Archive in Vercelli, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2024. |
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Organizer, Episcopus Twenty Years On (A Roundtable), International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2024. |
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2023 |
Co-organizer with Kalani Craig and Sigrid Danielson, Teaching the Medieval Bishop (A Roundtable), Co-Sponsored by Episcopus and TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies), International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 (hybrid). |
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2022 |
Chair and co-organizer with Pawel Figurski, Becoming the Bishop: Examinations of Episcopal Self-Fashioning, Co-Sponsored by Episcopus and the PSALM Network, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2022. |
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Presenter and co-organizer, “Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022 (virtual session). |
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Chair and co-organizer, “Cusanus and Ecclesiology” [Co-sponsored with American Cusanus Society], International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022 (virtual session). |
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Co-organizer, Mendicant Friars and the Secular Church: Controversy, Coexistence, Collaboration [Co-sponsored with Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.], International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022 (virtual session). |
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2021 |
Chair and organizer, “Bishops Pushing the Borders” and “Crossing Borders in Episcopal Hagiography” sponsored by Episcopus to be held at the International Medieval Congress Leeds, England, July 2021 (Originally scheduled for 2020, canceled, reproposed session for 2021 virtual conference). |
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Respondent, “Reproductive Cultures: New Approaches to the Facsimile.” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2021. (Originally scheduled for 2020, canceled, reproposed session for 2021 virtual conference). |
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Chair, “Preaching by Bishops and Secular Clergy," International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2021 (Originally scheduled for 2020, canceled, and reproposed session for 2021 virtual conference). |
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Organizer, “Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2021 (Originally scheduled for 2020, canceled, reproposed session for 2021 virtual conference). |
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“Manuscript Privileges I,” The Forty-Sixth Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 9-10, 2021, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (Originally scheduled for April 2020, canceled, reapplied, and held as a virtual conference.) |
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2019 |
Co-organizer for 2 sessions with Aneilya Barnes: “Gender, Identity & the Medieval Bishop/Secular Clergy”; Organizer: “Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Leeds 2020. |
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Co-Organizer for 3 sessions: Session I: Clerics and Codices: Bishops, Secular Clergy and Their Books, Session II: Old Clerics, New Tricks: Bishops, Secular Clergy, and New Methodology, Session III: Brevia on Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 2019. |
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Co-convener, Power of the Bishop IV: The Bishop as Patron, Sarum College, Salisbury, England, May 2019. |
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2018 |
Co-organizer for 3 sessions with John Ott and Michael Burger. “Start Ups and Flops I: Episcopal Start Ups”, “Start Ups and Flops II: Pastors and Disasters”, “Start Ups and (we hope not) Flops III: Brevia--Scholars’ Start Ups on Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages,” sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2018. |
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Co-Organizer of 3 sessions with John Ott and Michael Burger. 1) “Registering the Past: Sources and Methods for the Study of Episcopal Memory and Memorialization” 2) “Monuments and Mitres” 3) “Total Recall: Bishops Remembered in Medieval Practice and Modern Historiography,” sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2018. |
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2017 |
Co-Organizer with Sigrid Danielson. “Bishops, Secular Clergy, and Otherness: Sessions I-III” sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2017. |
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Moderator. “Secular Clergy and Laity III: Becoming a Bishop”, sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13, 2017. |
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2016 |
Chair. “Bishops on the Move and at Home, I-III,” sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, 2016. Organizer, Michael Burger, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University-Montgomery. |
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2014 |
Chair/Moderator. “Setting Up an Emperor's Church: Henry II and his Bishops,” sponsored by Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages and Conventus: Problems of Religious Communal Life in the High Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, 2014. Organizer, Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent. |
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2011 |
Organizer. “Image and Episcopacy: The Art of the Bishop" International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13, 2011. |
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2009 |
Respondent. “Iconography of the Episcopacy: Bishops and/in the Image,” with Diane J. Reilly, Indiana University, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 13, 2009. |
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Moderator. “Codex, Church, and Charter: Bishops as Patrons in the Middle Ages,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2009. |
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2006 |
Co-Chair. “Architecture’s Narrative: Spaces and the Stories they Tell,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, October 25-28, 2006. |
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2005 |
Chair & Moderator. “A Roundtable Discussion on Gender in the Visual Arts,” ACS Women's/Gender Studies Conference, March 26-27th, Furman University, 2004. |
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Invited Lectures & Workshops |
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2025 |
Organizer and Instructor for an NEH-funded workshop, “Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation”, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, June 2025. |
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2024 |
Organizer and Instructor for Summer Digital Humanities Institute: Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World, 16 June-22 June, Vercelli, Italy in collaboration with Videntes and the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare of Vercelli. |
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2023/ 2024 |
“Seeing What We Can See. MSI Imaging in the Vercelli Archives using the MISHA system” with Videntes (Helen Davies, Catherine Albers-Morris, and Heather Wacha) at the INTRADAMS (Integrating Traditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies) Summer School, taught in Vercelli, Italy. INTRADAMS is a collaboration between the University of Rochester, the Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana of Milan, the Ambrosian Library of Milan, Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare of Vercelli. June 2023, invited again for June 2024. |
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2023 |
Faculty Scholarship Lunch & Learn with Belk Library & the Provost’s Office, September 2023. |
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2017 |
“Interdisciplinary Course Development in a Core Curriculum,” Xavier University of Louisiana, May 22-23, 2017. |
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2012 |
“From Aquileia to Aosta: A North Italian Painting at the turn of the Millennium”, Visiting Artist Series, SUNY Plattsburgh, October 4, 2012. |
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2008 |
“Medieval Secrets in Modern Italy,” guest lecture, Greenville, South Carolina for Elon University’s Board of Visitors, November 1, 2008. |
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2008 |
"Lost in the Attic: Medieval Frescoes from Northern Italy,” Family Weekend at Elon University, September 27, 2008. |
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2005 |
Invited lecture at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, April 20, 2005. |
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2004 |
“Ecclesia and the Episcopacy: Liturgical Politics and the Portraiture of Sigebert of Minden,” Middle Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004. |
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1995 |
“A Journey into Xibalba: The Meso-American Ballgame,” Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. |
Presentations on Teaching & Learning |
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2022 |
Co-presenter with Kirstin Ringelberg and Yidi Wiu, “Un-grading & Contract Grading in ARH/HST Courses as Anti-Racist Pedagogy.” Center for Writing Excellence, Elon University, September 10, 2022. |
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2018 |
Co-presenter with Amy Johnson and Matt Buckmaster, “Intentionally Global: An avenue to critique Global citizenship through intentional connections between the Core Curriculum and Study Abroad,” CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) Conference, Barcelona, Spain, November 2018. |
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2017 |
Workshop with Jeffrey Carpenter, Scott Morrison, and Amy Allocco, “Why Choose Twitter for Teaching and Learning?”, Teaching Choices, Learning Consequences: 14th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference on August 17, 2017. |
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2017 |
With Alexa Sand (Utah State University) and Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College), “What Can I Do with a Degree in Art History?: Crowdsourcing a Shared Space of our Own,” in What have you done for Art History Lately? 2017 Edition at the College Art Association, New York, New York, February 2017. |
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2017 |
One-hour panel presentation moderated by Jeffrey Coker (Elon) with Elizabeth Beaulieu (Champlain College), Natalie McKnight (Boston University), Seanna M. Kerrigan (Portland State University), “Interdisciplinary Capstones for All Students” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), San Francisco, California, January 2017. |
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2016 |
“Interdisciplinary Capstones for All Students: The Elon model” at the Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS), Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2016. |
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2011 |
“More Than a Medievalist: Teaching the General while Writing the Specific”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 14, 2011. |
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2007 |
“Slide Projector, Data Projector, ARTstor, and More?: Rethinking Pedagogical Practice and Technology Talk” (co-Presenter with Todd A. Nicolet), Teaching and Transformation: Transforming students, transforming campuses, transforming ourselves (Innovation in Instruction Conference), Elon University, North Carolina, August 16, 2007. |
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2001 |
"Seeing and Believing: Looking at Religious Art from the Medieval to the Early Modern Era," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 22, 2001 (presentation to museum docents) |
Professional Activities
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS |
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In Progress |
Co-convener, “Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: Summer Digital Huminites Institute in Vercelli”, 16 June – 22 June, a collaboration between Videntes: A Multispectral Imaging Collective and the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Sant’Eusebio. |
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In Progress |
“Creative Approaches to Complex Pasts: A dance film inspired by racism and black resistance from the report on Elon History & Memory” in collaboration with Keshia Wall, Assistant Professor of Dance and Coordinator of Elon's African and African American Studies Program; Buffie Longmire-Avital, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Black Lumen Project; Amanda Laury Kleintop, Assistant Professor of History, (Incoming) Coordinator of Museum Studies & Public History, and (2024-2026) Scholar for the Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society. |
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In Progress |
Re-installation of the Portrait of Andrew Morgan, 2nd Floor, Belk Library. In collaboration with Jacob Van Buren, 23. Funded by a Student Engagement Grant |
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2024 |
(as mentor/co-curator) “Ritual Art Recontextualized”, exhibition designed and coordinated by Elon College Fellow Madeleine Hollenbeck, Numen Lumen Pavilion, Elon University. |
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2024 |
(as mentor/co-curator) “Untangling Early Medieval Scotland”, exhibition designed and coordinated as the capstone project for the Museum Studies and Public History Minor by Megan Spina. |
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2023 |
(as mentor/co-curator) An Exhibition of African Art in collaboration with the Black History Month Dance Concert, Feb-December 2023, Global Commons, in conversation with Simone Royal (CREDE) and Keshia Wall (Performing Arts). |
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2023 |
“African Art & Community: Building a Relationship Between the CREDE and the Elon Art Collections”, exhibition designed as part of ARH 3410 (McLean Bell, Ava Crawford, Ciara Mulhivill, Megan Hutchinson) in conversation with Simone Royal (CREDE), with support from RJ Maupin; waiting for installation by Ethan Moore. Funded by a CATL grant. |
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2022 |
“Medieval Manuscripts & Modern Facsimiles: From Dante to the Divine Liturgy”, Linder Hall Exhibition Cases, October 2022-May 2023. In collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Teviotdale, Madeleine Hollenbeck, Chrystal Carpenter, Dr. Miranda Elston, Dr. Brandon Essary, and Dr. Lynn Huber. |
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2022 |
Developed and co-led campus tours with Chrystal Carpenter and Charles Irons for “Reconciling with our Present by Exploring our Past” part of the Summer Race Series developed by Carla Fullwood (OIE), Sylvia Munõs (CREDE), and Damion Blake (CREDE Faculty Fellow). |
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2022 |
Co-authored with Buffie Longmire-Avital, Charles Irons, “Black Lumen Project, Committee on Elon History and Memory offer ‘celebration and sober reflection’ on Juneteenth,” Today at Elon, June 17th, 2022. https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2022/06/17/black-lumen-project-committee-on-elon-history-and-memory-offer-celebration-and-sober-reflection-on-juneteenth/ |
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2022 |
“How a Medieval Facsimile of a Roman Map Offered Direction in a Hybrid Classroom,” Facsimile Finder’s Bookplate Blog, June 1, 2022, https://www.facsimilefinder.com/articles/. |
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2022 |
“Religion in Africa Art”, Linder Hall Exhibition Cases, May 2022-Jan 2023. Exhibition designed as part of ARH 3410 (Jason Adama-Tetty, Asumi Endo, Lauren Whyte) in conversation with Dr. Waseem Bin-Kasim (HST/GEO and Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society), with support from RJ Maupin. Funded by a CATL grant. |
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2022 |
“Kingdoms of Africa: Ritual and Performance Masks”, African American Cultural Arts and History Center, Burlington, NC, May 2022-May 2023. Exhibition designed as part of ARH 3410 (Madeleine Hollenbeck, Krissy Bell, Zach Smith) in conversation with Ms. Shineece Sellers, with support from RJ Maupin and Ethan Moore, and the Power + Place Collaborative. Funded by a CATL grant. |
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2022 |
“Elephants, Rhinos, and Antelopes–Oh My!: Animal Imagery and the Elon Art Collections,” May 2022-May 2023. Mayco Bigelow Center, North Park, Burlington, NC, May 2022-May 2023. Exhibition designed as part of ARH 3410 (Virginia Morrison and Kate Leary) in conversation with Ms. Bobby Ruffin and the K.I.N.G. Academy, with support from RJ Maupin and the Power + Place Collaborative. Funded by a CATL grant. |
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2019 |
“More than Reading. Encountering Early Modern Manuscripts”, May 2019-present. Exhibition of works of art from the Cowen Collection on loan to the Elon Art Collection. Co-curated with Emily Clark, 19. |
Service Activities
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITYElon University |
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2024 |
Chair, Selection Committee for the Assistant Director of Integrative Core Capstones and Coordinator of the Independent Major |
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2023 |
Fulbright Campus Committee |
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2023 |
Review Committee, T&L Grants, Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning |
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2021-2024 |
Chair, Committee on Elon History & Memory |
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2021 |
Member, Committee on Elon History & Memory |
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2022-2024 |
Coordinator for Museum Studies & Public History Minor |
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2020-present |
Coordinator for Art History |
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2014-2019 |
Associate Director for the Elon Core Curriculum |
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2019 |
New Student and Transition Program, Internal Review |
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2019 |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Community Working Group (part of the strategic planning process) |
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2019 |
Elon 101 Learning Outcomes Working Group |
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2014-2019 |
Elon Core Curriculum Council (ex-officio from 2015-2019) |
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2014-2019 |
Member, Presidential Task Force on Second-Language Learning at Elon |
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2015-present |
Jewish Studies Advisory Board |
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2013-present |
Italian Studies Advisory Board |
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2012-present |
Member, Advisory Board for the Center for the Study of Religion, Society and Culture |
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2011-present |
German Studies Advisory Board |
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2006-present |
Classical Studies Committee/Advisory Board, Elon University |
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2016-2018 |
Member, Intellectual Climate Working Group |
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2016 |
Member, Search committee for the Assistant Dean for the Global Education Center |
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2015 |
Member, Search committee for Elon 101 Director and New Student & Transition Programs Director |
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2014-2016 |
Member, Elon Experiences Advisory Council |
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2013-2016 |
Advisory Board for the Global Education Center |
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2011-2014 |
Branch Director for the Arts & Humanities, Elon College Fellows |
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2010-2011 |
Arts & Humanities Divisional Curriculum Committee |
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2009-2012 |
General Studies Review Committee |
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2008-2009 |
Chair, subcommittee for amendments to the teacher-scholar statement, appointed by Academic Council |
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2008 |
Search Committee, Executive Director of Cultural Programs and Academic Events |
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2008-2012 |
Co-Chair, Chair, Visual Culture Group (sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Elon) |
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2007-2010 |
General Studies Council |
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2007-2009 |
Presidential Task Force for Scholarship, Elon University |
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Middle Eastern Studies Advisory Board, Elon University |
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2007-2011 |
Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Board, Elon University |
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2006-2011 |
Co-coordinator, Art History |
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2006-2007 |
Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Photography |
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2006-2010 |
Coordinator, Elon Art Collections |
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