Please join us on Friday, November 13 at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the 2026 Cleveland Symposium! This year’s topic is “Wear: Indexing the Human Body.” Stay tuned for the full schedule.
Graduate Students
Congratulations to PhD candidates in medieval art Claudia Haines and Reed O’Mara on a splendid showing at this year’s Forum Kunst des Mittelalters in Bochum and Dortmund, Germany. Claudia presented work related to her dissertation on medieval medical manuscripts in a session organized by Reed, now on a Kress...
Please join us on Friday, November 13 at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the 2026 Cleveland Symposium! This year’s topic is “Wear: Indexing the Human Body.” Stay tuned for the full schedule.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new program in Global Medieval Studies! Administered through the Department of Art History and Art in collaboration with Classics, English, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Music departments, the Graduate Certificate in Global Medieval Studies will offer students the opportunity to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary study of the medieval world. For questions, please contact Prof. Elina Gertsman, the program’s director, or visit our page. Click below for a peek at this semester’s events!
We are delighted to share that doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse has accepted a position as Catalogue Raisonné Researcher at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute! Based in New York City, the WPI is a non-profit foundation working in collaboration with the Fonds WPI in Paris and dedicated to publishing digital catalogues...
Rachel Sweeney, third-year PhD student in medieval art, was this year's recipient of the Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies from the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Her paper, "The Faddan More Psalter: Tangible Connections Between the Insular World and Byzantium," was originally written...
The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to announce the publication of Animalities and Humanities in Medieval Jewish Art, a special issue of Ars Judaica co-edited by Prof. Elina Gertsman. In addition to a broad range of articles, the volume features a roundtable discussion that explores historical and ecological spectra of...
Join us on May 27 for Reed O'Mara's lecture on the use of pseudo-Hebrew in late medieval prints! The talk is part of the lecture series organized by the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Reed, a doctoral candidate in medieval art and a Mellon Fellow, is...
Congratulations to all the speakers, chairs, and organizers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies! Case Western Reserve--its faculty, its affiliates, its students, and its alumni--were amply represented this year. Thank you, as always, for making us proud, and for paving the way for the annual meeting of the...
PhD candidate Clara Pinchbeck has accepted a two-year Research Assistant position at the Getty Research Institute. Working under Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Clara will focus on long-term digital projects within a division that encompasses the Getty Provenance Index, the Getty Vocabulary Program, and...
Coin exhibition CWRU news article
Reed O'Mara, a doctoral candidate in medieval art, is the featured researcher of the week on the Medieval Jewish Studies Now! --- a news blog dedicated to providing current information on the developing state of medieval Jewish studies research. We seek to update our readers on Jewish studies research spanning the...