Katherine Morris Boivin

Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture; Director, Art History and Visual Culture; Coordinator, Medieval Studies

Primary Academic Program: Art History

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Environmental Studies, Experimental Humanities, French Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Theology

Biography: BA, Tufts University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal.



Professor Boivin’s research focuses on the dynamic interactions between figural art, architecture, and human activity. She is interested in the spatiality of Late Medieval churches, in the diverse functions of architectural space, and in the ability of artistic ensembles to shape human experience. Her current book project investigates architectural sites of passage and projection. Primary field: Western Medieval Art, in particular Gothic Art and Architecture in Germany; Secondary field: Islamic Art.



Grants and awards include the ISTAS Digital Project Grant (2020); NEH Summer Stipend (2017); Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art History Grant (2017); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant (2017); ICMA-Kress Research Grant (2017); Post Doctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal (2012-13); SAH Rosann S. Berry Conference Fellowship (2013); Fulbright Research Grant, Germany (2011-2012); British Archaeological Association Conference Travel Grant (2012); and the DAAD Research Grant, Germany (2011).



Publications include Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City (Penn State, 2021); Boivin and Bryda (eds.), Riemenschneider in Situ (Harvey Miller, 2022); Boivin, Cook, and Stewart (eds.), Gothic Space: Studies in Honor of Stephen Murray (Brill, Forthcoming); “Two-Story Charnel House Chapels and the Centrality of Death in the Medieval City,” in Picturing Death 1200–1600 (Brill, 2020); “Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Dynamic Interactions in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg,” The Art Bulletin 99, no. 2 (2017); “The Chancel Passageways of Norwich,” Norwich: Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (BAA, 2015). Grants and Awards include: VISTAS Digital Project Grant; Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art History Grant (co-PI); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant (co-PI); NEH Summer Stipend; and the Fulbright Research Fellowship to Germany. At Bard since 2013.

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