Barbara Abou-El-Haj

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 1994
  Paper edition, Cambridge University Press, 1997
• Lordship and Commune: A Comparative Study of Building in Reims and Amiens. Book manuscript in preparation

Articles

• "Producing the Route of Saint James," Mediaevalia, forthcoming.
• “The Structure of Meaning. Architectural Representation in the Later Middle Ages,” Studies in Iconography 25 (2004), pp. 129-171.
• "Santiago de Compostela in the Time of Diego Gelmírez," Gesta, XXXVI 1/2 (1997), 165-79.
• "Program and Power in the Glass of Reims," Radical Art History. An International Anthology, ed. Wolfgang Kersten, Zurich, 1997, pp. 22-33, 226-233.
• "Saint Cuthbert.  The Post-Conquest Appropriation of an Anglo-Saxon Cult," Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, Albany, 1996, pp. 177-206.
• "Artistic Integration Inside the Cathedrals, Social Consensus Outside?," Artistic Integration in Early Gothic Churches. ed. K. Brush, P. Draper, V. Raguin, University of  Toronto Press, 1995, pp. 214-35.
• "Building and Decorating at Reims and Amiens,"  Europäische Skulptur im 12./13. Jahrhundert, ed. H. Beck and K. Hengevoss-Dürkop, 2 vols., Frankfurt am Main, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 763-76, and vol. 2, pp. 508-519.
• "The Audiences for the Medieval Cult of Saints," Gesta, XXX (1991), pp. 3-15.
• "Languages and Models for Cultural Exchange," Culture, Globalization, and the World-System (Current Debates in Art History 3), ed. Anthony King, Art and Art History, SUNY Binghamton and London, 1991, pp. 139-44.
• "Ritual, Image and Subordination in Thirteenth-century Reims," World Art: Themes of Unity in Diversity, ed., Irving Lavin (Acts of the XXVI International Congress of the History of Art), University Park, Penn, 1989, vol. III, pp. 653-64.
• "The Urban Setting for Late Medieval Church Building: Reims and its Cathedral between 1210 and 1240," Art History 11 (1988), pp. 17-41. (Review - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• "Feudal Conflicts and the Image of Power in the Life of Saint Amand," Kritische Berichte 13 (1985), pp. 5-30.
• "Bury St Edmunds Abbey between 1070 and 1124: a History of Property, Privilege and Monastic Art Production," Art History 6 (1983), pp. 1-29. (Review - C.M. Kauffmann, "English Romanesque Book Illumination: Changes in the Field 1974-1984)
• "Consecration and Investiture in the Life of Saint Amand," Art Bulletin 61 (1979), pp. 342-58.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

National

• 2003 Fall    Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
• 1999-2000    Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1995 Summer    National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend and Travel Grant
• 1994 Winter     UCLA Arts Council Chair (declined)
• 1991-1992     National Endowment for the Humanities
• 1987 Fall     Ailsa Mellon Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• 1970    Kress Foundation Summer Research Travel Grant
• 1967    Kress Foundation Summer Research Travel Grant

University

• 1988 Summer    Binghamton Fellowship and Summer Grant, $4,000.
• 1967-71     Chancellor's Teaching Fellow, UCLA
• 1966    UCLA Art Council Graduate Grant for Summer Research

TUTORIAL AND GRADUATE SUPERVISION

Senior Tutorials and Honors

• Amanda Grannis: “Convivencia: History, Myth, and Modern Memory,” 2012
• Maureen Larimore: “Saint Geneviève of Paris,” 2012
• Moira Kim Penza: Thomas Becket in Medieval and Modern Literature,” Honors Thesis, English, 2005
• Erin Martin: “From Villa to Fortress: The Getty Humanities Center” Honors Thesis, 2001-2002
• Stephanie Groothuis: “Franz Marc. Representations 1900-1920"
• Gail Hoenig: “Fragonard -- A Critical Historiography,” Tutorial, Spring 1994
• Laura Hansen: “The Production History of American Glass, Honors,” 1993-94
• Danielle Nyarady: “Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket,” Tutorial, Spring 1994
• J. Terry: “The Counter-Reformation Project for St. Peter's, Rome.”
• Jill Taylor: “Political Representation, Economic Crisis, and Artistic Transformations in the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius”
• Jenny Kalina:  ”The Nineteenth-Century Project to Restore Medieval Churches and the Catholic Hierarchy in Post-Revolutionary France.”
• Nadia Abdullah: “The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Medieval and Contemporary Ideology.”

Masters

• Heather Allen: “The Representation of Textiles on Medieval Tomb Effigies”
• Maggie Carlise:  “Battle Abbey Then and Now,” 2004
• Christine Dwyer: “The Cult of Saint Edward the Confessor: An Affirmation of the Norman Right to Rule England” 1999
• Tara Winner:  “Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y.: A Local Example of the Rural Cemetery Movement “ 1999
• Mae Benson: “The Illustrated Life of Ste Radegund: For Love of the World,” 1998
• Devon Murphy:  “Stourhead: Disparate Emblems in an Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden,” 1997
• Ilana Abend-David: “Politics and Archaeology in Israel: Yigael Yadin’s Excavations at Masada,” 1995
• Antoinette Aleccia: “The Shrine of Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral,” 1990
• Donna Dajnowski: “Holy Trinity Dormition Chapel, Jordanville, New York,” 1988

Doctoral Students

• Laurel Braun: “Women’s Patronage in Medieval Iberia”
• Aynur DeRouen, “Urban Spaces, 19th-century Istanbul”
• Melissa Fitzmaurice: “Late Antique and Early Christian Shrines”
• Kenneth Havenstein, "Choreographing the City. Politics, Pedagogy, and musicality in Medieval Siena." Ph.D. 2009
• Saygin Salgirli, “From Thirteenth-Century Toulouse to Fifteenth-Century Serres: A Comparative Study of Dissent, Authority, Architecture and Space” PhD 2009
• Sharon C. Smith: “Planned Grandeur:  A Commensurate Study of Urban Expansion in Early Modern Italy and Mamluk Egypt,” 2009 (co-supervisor)
• Rosemary Ludwick, “Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine: The Cloister’s Panel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art” PhD 2003
• Joseph Bertha: “The Illustration of the Akathist Hymn at the Ferapontov Monastery,” PhD 2002

Undergraduate Courses

• Global Visions
• Late Roman Art and Politics
• The Golden Arts of Kings/ Early Medieval Art
• The Carolingians. Fantasies of Rome
• Monastery and Cathedral Towns in the Later Middle Ages
• Medieval Cults of Saints
• Europe of the Capitals
• Opulence and Excess. Building in the Middle Ages
• Junior Seminar/ Historiography

Graduate Seminars

• Graduate Methods and Theory
• Medieval Pro Seminar
• Inventing the Middle Ages: nation-state, political ideology, cultural capital
• The Bayeux Tapestry/ Partisan Records of the Norman Conquest of England
• Medieval Historiographies
• Saints, Shrines and Spectacle. Aspects of Medieval Cults of Saints
• Vézelay and Santiago. Pilgrimage and Rebellion
• Abbey and Cathedral Towns in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Reims and Amiens. Lordship and Commune
• Reims, the Coronation Cathedral
• Frontier Cultures / Cultures of Exchange / Medieval Spain
• Medieval Shrines/ Modern Inventions