Meredith Cohen is Professor of Art History. She teaches the art and architecture of Western Europe with an emphasis on England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain from ~350 to ~1450.

Professor Cohen’s research focuses on the production, use, and reception of architecture and urban spaces, as well as cultural heritage and historiography related to medieval architecture, particularly the Gothic in France. 

She is author, co-author, or co-editor of Imagining the Lady Chapel: Digital Reconstruction and the Art of Gothic Design (forthcoming), The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris (2015, Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, 2017), Space in the Medieval West (2014), Memory and Commemoration in Medieval France (2013), Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France (2010), and Paris, ville rayonnante (2010). She has received fellowships and support from external institutions including the Getty Research Institute, Keck Foundation, Kress Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her essays and articles appear in The Art Bulletin, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Speculum, and Res, as well as in edited anthologies. Her methods range from documentary analysis and building archaeology to digital reconstruction and analysis. In 2003, Meredith Cohen founded the International Medieval Society of Paris, a non-profit association that brings international and French scholars of the Middle Ages together in Paris for apéritifs, study days, and symposia.

Currently, she is PI for two ongoing collaborative digital projects, Paris Past and Present, which aims to digitally reconstruct selected lost monuments of Paris, and Enriched Timelines, which visualizes source material and historiographies for Romanesque and Gothic architecture. 

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004

Books

Courses

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT, UNDERGRADUATE

  • AH 21 Medieval Art: Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Carolingian, Ottoman, Romanesque, and Gothic art and architecture.
  • AH 115C Romanesque Art and Architecture
  • AH 115D Gothic Art and Architecture
  • AH 115E Late Gothic Art and Architecture: Art and architecture of Europe in 14th and early 15th centuries.
  • AH C115F Medieval Paris: Material culture, art, architecture, and history of city of Paris to circa 1500.
  • AH C117B Digital Gothic
  • AH 117C Selected Topics: The Medieval Bestiary, Digital Gothic, the Sainte-Chapelle
  • Paris Past and Present – Medieval Art History in the Contemporary City: Summer travel study course investigating the medieval art, architecture, and urban-national history of Paris including study of and visits to national monuments and treasures of Gothic architecture.

 

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT, GRADUATE

  • AH C215D Gothic Art and Architecture: Art and architecture of Europe in 13th century. Concurrently scheduled with course C115D. S/U or letter grading.
  • AH C215F Medieval Paris: Material culture, art, architecture, and history of city of Paris to circa 1500
  • AH C217A Medieval Archaeology: Archaeology of medieval world.
  • AH 217C Medieval Art: Graduate seminar studying selected topics in Byzantine and European medieval art.
  • AH 217C Selected Topics: Materiality, Chartres Cathedral, Saint-Denis

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