Three generations of medievalists: with my (unofficial) Doktormutter Caroline Bynum and my Doktorsohn Gregory Bryda, celebrating the publication of Bryda’s book The Trees of the Cross in Nov. 2023.
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COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS
Stephanie Wisowaty, Yale, Painted Processional Crosses in Late Medieval Italy (1250-1500): Production, Movement, and Mediation (2025, co-advised with Lawrence Kanter)
Katherine Werwie, Yale. Visions Across the Gates: Materiality, Symbolism, and Communication in the Historiated Wooden Doors of Medieval European Churches (2024) ~~ Associate Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art (2023-),
Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Yale. The Deposition from the Cross: Place, Polychromy, and Experience in Medieval Wood Sculpture (2023) ~~ Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art (2023-)
Michelle Oing, Yale. Puppet Potential: Moveable Sculpture and Religious Performance in Late. Medieval Northern Europe (2021) ~~ Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2021-23); Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Institute for Sacred Music (2023-24); Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College (2025-)
Gregory Bryda, Yale. Tree, Vine, and Herb: Vegetal Themes and Media in Late Gothic Germany (2016, co-advised with Christopher Wood). ~~ Assistant Professor, Barnard College (2018-)
Stephanie Luther, Yale. Gifts and Giving in Architectural Sculpture of the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1150-1235 (Yale University, 2015) ~~ Winner of the 2016 International Research Prize from the European Romanesque Center in Merseburg
Margaret Hadley, Yale (written under Prof. Walter Cahn): The Yale Missal (Beinecke MS 425): Mendicant Spirituality and a Vernacular Mass Book from the Fouquet Circle (2007)
Christopher Lakey, University of California-Berkeley: Relief in Perspective: Italian Medieval Sculpture and the Rise of Optical Aesthetics (2009; co-advised with Whitney Davis)
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
Kristen Herdman, Yale Medieval Studies, on verbal communication in visual arts of medieval German convents
David Cambronero-Sanchez, Yale, on Enrique de Arfe and late Gothic metalwork in Iberian lands (in progress as of spring 2025)