Jerrilynn Dodds
Jerrilynn Dodds | |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | Islamic art |
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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]
Biography[edit]
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 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 wrote and directed a number of 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 government of Spain as the recipient of the Cruz de la Orden de Mérito Civil (Cross of the Order of Civil Merit). [1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Dean Jerrilynn Dodds reflects on career thus far at SLC". The Emanon. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ a b "Jerrilynn Dodds". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ Kugel, Seth (2002-04-07). "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: NEW YORK THROUGH THE LENS; The Faces of the Faithful". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "Jerrilynn Dodds | Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas | Music, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Film, Souk". muslimvoicesfestival.org. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "Teaching Chairs". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ a b Marx, Alex. "Jerrilynn D. Dodds". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "MyHometownBronxville.com – Former Sarah Lawrence Dean Jerrilynn Dodds Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". myhometownbronxville.com. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ^ "Art History Faculty Member Jerrilynn Dodds Awarded Slade Professorship at Oxford". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
