Gothic Cathedrals
This course introduces students to the history and design of cathedrals and monasteries in medieval Europe. Themes include the development of Gothic architecture from Romanesque… Read More »Gothic Cathedrals
This course introduces students to the history and design of cathedrals and monasteries in medieval Europe. Themes include the development of Gothic architecture from Romanesque… Read More »Gothic Cathedrals
This seminar inaugurated the Wired Project. In the course, we explored how the results of research in the humanities can be expressed using new visual… Read More »Wired!
This course examines the impact of two new religious orders, the Franciscans and Dominicans (mendicant friars), on cities, architecture, literature, painting and sculpture. In the… Read More »The Mendicant Revolution
Medieval sculpture often “floats” on white walls of museums with no suggestion of the richness of its historical context. The goal of this course was… Read More »The Museum Inside Out
Beginning with Napoleon’s forced entry into the city in 1797 and the fall of a more than 1000 year old Republic, the urban landscape of… Read More »Mapping and Modeling Early Modern Venice
This course will take you on a journey through the development of human society and culture in the British Isles before written records began. From… Read More »The Archaeology of Ancient Britain
A renewed interest in materiality and “things” in contemporary humanistic discourse coincides with the growth of computer-based scholarly practices organized under the “big tent” of… Read More »Critical Making/Digital Humanities
This class looks at Paris as an urban space and as an artistic center. It explores the city as a physical environment that has to… Read More »Paris: A City and Its Culture 1850-1930
What did the Parthenon look like in the 5th century BCE? How spectacular was the view of the Giza Pyramids in third millennium BCE Egypt?… Read More »Reconstructing Ancient Worlds
This advanced graduate seminar explores life along the geographical peripheries of the Roman Empire, as well as the very concepts of Roman frontiers. We turn… Read More »Roman Frontiers