Katherine Werwie, M.A.
Stipendiatin des DAAD am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Oktober 2020 bis April 2021
Vita
- 2016- | Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Yale University, supervised by Prof. Jacqueline Jung. Dissertation: “Visions Across the Gates: Materiality, Symbolism and Communication in the Historiated Wooden Doors of Medieval European Churches”
- 2015 | M.Phil, History of Art and Architecture, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
- 2014 | B.A., Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University
Publications and Presentations
- 2021 | “Out of the Woods: Ecologies and Natural Materials of the Historiated Doors of Auvergne,” International Center of Medieval Art, Student Committee Session, International Congress of Medieval Studies
- 2019 | Exhibition essay on Kerri Conlon, “Cover,” Ripe at Dawn: Yale MFA Sculpture Theses, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019
- 2019 | Catalog entries, Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019
- 2018 | “Pious Predecessors: Fitra and the Reclamation of Pre-Islamic Art as Emirati Heritage in the Louvre Abu Dhabi,” Yale Council of Middle Eastern Studies Symposium, (De)constructing the Spectacle: Cultural Memory, Heritage Practice and Urbanism in the UAE
- 2015 | “Metamorphosis in the Personification of Death in Pastoral Texts from 1250-1350,” Ohio State University Medieval and Renaissance Conference
Honors and Awards
- 2020-2021 | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidate
- 2020–2021 | Fulbright Research Award (declined)
- 2020 | American-Scandinavian Foundation Research Grant
- 2019–2020 | Macmillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University
- 2016–2020 | Sumner McKnight Crosby Fellowship, Yale University
- 2017, 2018 | H. Allen Brooks Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians
- 2017 | Max Kade Foundation Grant, for language study at University of Heidelberg
- 2014 | Departmental honors for senior thesis, Barnard College
- 2014 | LeFrak Scholarship for Excellence in Arts, Barnard College