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Madeline H. Caviness |
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Mary Richardson Professor
Professor of Art History
Professeur Associé, Faculté des Lettres, Université Laval, Québec (honorary)
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Art & Art History Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D. Harvard University |
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Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2007), American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, 2005,
Tufts University Award for Distinguished Research, and Seymour Simches Award for Teaching and Advising, 2005,
Named among 100 international scholars honored by the Group for Study and Research on
Globalisations (GERM) for achievements in 2004,
Bristol (England) honorary Doctor of Letters, 2000,
The Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy, 1993,
Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (elected 1992),
John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy, 1981,
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 1980),
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa of Radcliffe College, 1977 |
| E-mail: |
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madeline.caviness@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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With Charles G. Nelson, Exhibition “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Property: Limited Ownership under the Law,” in the Slater Concourse of the Aidekman Arts Center, November 12 - December 15, 1998:
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/law/index.html
“Tucks and Darts: Adjusting patterns to fit figures in stained glass windows around 1200,” web supplement to 2004 publication:
http://www.tufts.edu/~mcavines/glassdesign.html
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Offices in Scholarly Organizations:
International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines or CIPSH), an affiliate of UNESCO, President 2001-2004; scientific committee for its journal Diogène 2005-
Union Académique Internationale in Brussels: Delegate from the American Council of Learned Societies, 1984-present; President 1998-2001
International Center for Medieval Art, President 1984-87
Medieval Academy of America: President 1993-94
Selected Books:
Paintings on Glass: Studies in Romanesque and Gothic Monumental Art, Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1997.
Medieval Art in the West and its Audience, Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 2001.
Reframing Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries, Tufts University electronic book, 2001: http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/Caviness.
Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle and Scopic Economy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001; Japanese translation by Kumiko Tanaka, Tokyo: Arina Shobo, for 2005.
The Windows of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevii, Great Britain II) London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1981
Sumptuous Arts at the Royal Abbeys in Reims and Braine, Ornatus elegantiae, varietate stupendes, Princeton University Press, 1990
“Putting the Judge in his P(a)lace: Pictorial Authority in the Sachsenspiegel,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege [Festschrift für Ernst Bacher], 54 (2000): 308-20.
Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle and Scopic Economy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
Medieval Art in the West and its Audience: Viewers, Patrons, Interpreters, Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum reprints, 2001
"Iconoclasm and Iconophobia: Four Historical Case Studies." Diogenes 50 (2003): 99-114 (and "Iconclasme et iconophobie: quatre études de cas historiques," Diogène, 50 (2002): 119-34
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