Jerrilynn Dodds | |
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Born | February 11, 1951 |
Children | Sanford Robinson Gifford and Theodore Augustus Dodds Gifford |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) Cruz de la Orden de Mérito Civil (2018) |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | Medieval art and Islamic art |
Institutions |
Jerrilynn Denise Dodds is an American art historian whose work has focused on artistic identity in Medieval Spain. She is currently a professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College and formerly served as the dean of the college from 2009 to 2015. [1]
Dodds received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. [2]
She taught at Columbia University and City College of New York and was distinguished professor at CCNY before joining the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College as dean. [3] [4] She currently holds the Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair at Sarah Lawrence. [5] Her research,resulting in numerous publications and exhibition,has focused on the issues of artistic interchange between Christians,Muslims,and Jews in Medieval Spain,and how groups form identities through art and architecture. [2]
Dodds also curated a number of museum exhibitions,wrote and directed films on art and architecture,and won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in 1995 for the documentary An Imaginary East. [6]
She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. [6] [7] In 2017,she was awarded the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for the 2020–2021 academic year. [8] In 2018,she was knighted by the king of Spain,as the recipient of the Cruz de la Orden de Mérito Civil (Cross of the Order of Civil Merit).
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