I am an Art Historian specialising in Jewish visual and material culture, with particular expertise in the medieval and early modern periods. My broader research interests include the histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century collecting and the lives of art objects as they extend from the Middle Ages to now. These themes underpinnedmy PhD thesis, , as well as the international conference I co-organised Tracing Jewish Histories: the Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture.
Fundamentally, my research asks what is at stake for art history when we move beyond conventional, short-term chronologies. Combining methods of material analysis, mobility studies, and historiographical revision, I explore how unexpected moments in an object’s life—particularly its collecting history—can challenge established narratives and reshape our understanding of late medieval and early modern art. This approach informs my current research projects, including forthcoming publications in Ars Judaica (2026) anda chapter on provenance for a Getty Museum facsimile of the Rothschild Pentateuch (2027).
Education
PhD, 51ݶ
MA History of Art, 51ݶ
BA History of Art, Stanford University
BA Italian Language and Literature, Stanford University
Fellowships
2021-2025:
2023:
2018:
Teaching
Autumn and Spring terms 2026-27: Teaching Fellow, “Medieval Art in London Collections”
Autumn term 2026: Teaching Fellow, “Approaches: Art and Magic in the Premodern World”
Spring term 2026: Associate Lecturer, “Art, Travel, and Imagination in the Middle Ages”
Spring term 2024: Teaching Assistant, “Exhibiting Art”
Autumn term 2022: Teaching Assistant, “Foundations in Art History”
Research and Travel Grants
2025:Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Committee Grant for Innovation in Community Building and Professionalisation (in support of Tracing Jewish Histories)
2024:British Archaeological Association Travel Grant
2024:
2023: , International Center of Medieval Art
2022:
Publications
V&A Jewish Culture Month, May 2026.
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering A Missing Chapter in the Life of the Rothschild Pentateuch 1852-1905,” Ars Judaica 22 (forthcoming 2026)
“A Journey Across Time and Place: The Provenance of the Rothschild-Wittenberg Bible,” in Elizabeth Morrison, Sharon Liberman Mintz, Reed O’Mara eds.,Rothschild-Wittenberg Bible Facsimile(forthcoming Getty Publications, 2027)
Conferences and Workshops
Arbeiten am Objekt. Wieder- und Weiterverwendung als kunsthistorischer Ansatz, Teil 1 (Working with the Object: Reuse and Continued Use as an Art Historical Approach, Part 1), Convened by Carolin Gluchowski, Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Bochum/Dortmund, 25 September 2026.
Lecture, Bar-Ilan University, March 18, 2026.
Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture, 51ݶ and Case Western Reserve University, Co-organiser, 19-20 May 2025.
, International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Session Co-organiser and Chair, 8 May 2025.
, The Lives of Jewish Books II, Organisers: Diane Wolfthal and Adam Shear, Renaissance Society of America, Boston, 20 March 2025.
, International Medieval Congress at Leeds, Session Co-organiser and Moderator, 1 July, 2024.
Books Across Borders, University of Kent, 14 September 2024.
Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages, The Courtauld Medieval Colloquium, Co-organiser, 15 March 2024.
, Emerging Researchers Symposium 2023: Movement and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual Cultures, Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, Durham University, 22-23 June 2023.
“Material Witnesses: Examining the Migration of Hebrew Manuscripts in Relation to Jewish Displacement 1290-1550”, Lecture, Department of Medieval Art & The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 May 2023.
, Mediterranean Seminar: Diasporic Legacies of ٳ Mediterranean, University of Minnesota, 27-28 April 2023.
Honours and Awards
2022:
2019:
2018: Albert Elsen Award in Art History, Stanford University
Research Interests
- Collecting practices, particularly related to Jewish art objects
- Long lives (afterlives) of Hebrew manuscripts and Judaica
- Jewish-Christian relationships and Jewish experience in the Middle Ages
- Jewish displacement and expulsion in western Europe 1290-1492
- Processes of Hebrew manuscript production in Europe (13th – 15th centuries)
- Jewish persecution and anti-Jewish sentiment across historical periods
- Movement of people and books across time periods and geographies