Biography
Dodds received her B.A. in Art History from Barnard College,Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. [5]
From 1980 - 1989 she was as an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. From 1989 - 2009 she was a Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Theory at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture,where she also served as Senior Faculty Advisor to the Provost for Undergraduate Education. [6] [7] From 2009 - 2015 she served as the Dean of Sarah Lawrence College,where he currently holds the Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in Islamic Studies. [8] Throughout much of her career,Dodds research has focused on transculturation and artistic interchange between Christians,Muslims,and Jews in Medieval Spain. [5]
Her publications include Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain (1990);NY Masjid:The Mosques of New York (2002);and,as co-author,The Arts of Intimacy:Christians,Jews,and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture (2008),which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, [3] and Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia. Arts and Ambivalence (2024).
In addition to her academic work,Dodds served as a consultant,curator,and lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Select exhibitions include Al Andalus:The Arts of Islamic Spain,The Arts of Medieval Spain, and Convivencia:The Arts of Jews,Christians and Muslims in Medieval Iberia. Also a prolific filmmaker,Dodds directed four documentaries for the Met,including Journey to St. James:A Pilgrim's Guide (1993), An Imaginary East (1995), NY Masjid (1996), and Hearts and Stones:The Bridge at Mostar (2004). Her films have been awarded two MUSE Awards from New York Women in Film &Television,as well as the 1995 Cine Golden Eagle Award for Best Documentary Film. [9]
In 2016 Dodds was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts Research. [10] [11] In 2017,she was awarded the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for the 2020–2021 academic year. [12] In 2018,she was knighted by the Felipe VI of Spain,and inducted into the Orden del Mérito Civil. Jerrilynn Dodds (Art History) | Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College Jerrilynn Dodds | Ediciones Complutense
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