Meg Bernstein

Education

• PhD, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
• MAR, Religion & Visual Culture, Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, 2013
• MA, Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011
• AB, Art History & English, Smith College, 2008

Specialties / Areas of Interest

• Medieval Art & Architecture
• Transhistorical art histories
• Sculpture

Biography

Meg Bernstein's research focuses on architecture, sculpture, and spaces in medieval Europe and its echoes. She is especially interested in materiality, haptic perceptions, transhistorical approaches, and the digital humanities. Her current book project considers the development of the parish church as a community space and building type. She is also engaged in research on sculpture in the long twelfth century across the North Sea, contemporary artists responding to medieval sculpture, replication in medieval sculptural works, and apotropaic imagery.

Meg's research has been supported by the US/UK Fulbright Commission, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Kress Foundation.

Courses Taught

• Medieval Visual Culture
• Building the Middle Ages
• Medieval Materiality
• Bones & Stones: The Art of Death in the Middle Ages

Research, Publications, & Presentations

Research & Publications

• "Like a Virgin? Breaking, (un)making, and replicating the Madonna across time, space, and toy stores" Meg Boulton MAVCOR Journal 2024
• "A Knight’s Social Network: Sculpting Alliances at the Church of St. Peter, Cogenhoe," Studies in Iconography 2023
• "Visiting Religious Spaces in the Digital Realm: The MAVCOR Digital Spaces Project in Historical Context," Emily Floyd, De Gruyter, Material Religion and Digital Humanities, 2022
• "The Parochial Nave in Twelfth– and Thirteenth–Century Cambridgeshire," British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions: Cambridge, 2022
• "Show Some Decorum: Against an Imitative Model in the English Parish Church," Courtauld Books Online, Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399, 2021
• Commentary on “Plates 2.39 and 2.40: Winchester Font,” Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, A Digital Edition, 2021
• Commentary on “Plate 2.7: The Church of St. Andrew, Greensted, the Shrine of St. Edmund, and the Abbey Seal of Bury St. Edmund’s,” Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, A Digital Edition, 2019
• “A Bishop of Two Peoples: William of St. Calais and the Hybridization of Architecture in Eleventh–Century Durham,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2018