College of Arts and Sciences

Prof. Gertsman has been awarded the Medieval Academy’s inaugural Karen Gould Prize in Art History for Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (University Park: Penn State Press, 2015). The Karen Gould Prize, established by an endowed gift from Lewis Gould in 2016, is awarded annually for a book or monograph in...

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Now in production and due out this May, Professor Gertsman's new book, co-authored with one of the field's foremost historians, Barbara H. Rosenwein, weaves its narrative through the extraordinary array of medieval objects in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This gorgeous book  encompasses the European, Byzantine, and...

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"The Digital Red Monastery Church: Open Access for Scholars and the Public, for Research and Teaching" receives the 2018 Medieval Academy Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize (Principal Investigator, Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University). This project used laser technology not only to create an interactive 360-degree panorama of the triconch...

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This 2018 Baker-Nord Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “Thomas Benton, Jackson Pollock and the Secrets of El Greco” is led by Henry Adams. Come join us on Wednesday February 7, 2018 in the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom A. Free and open to the public.

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On November 14, Prof. Steven Fine discussed the way Arch of Titus was seen and interpreted throughout history, from the Roman period to the present day. Dr. Fine’s ongoing exhibition at Yeshiva University features a true-to-life replica of the Spoils of Jerusalem relief from the Arch, made thanks to the three-dimensional and polychrome scanning done as part of the YU’s Arch of Titus Project in 2012.

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