BARBARA ABOU-EL-HAJ, CURRICULUM VITAE

1964 B.A. cum laude, Honors in English, St. Lawrence University

Positions

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

National

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

1994 Summer: Travel Grant for Research in Spain
1991-1992: Title F grant (matching NEH award)
1992 Spring: $1,000 mini-grant subvention to support plates in: The Medieval Cult of Saints. Formations and Transformations, awarded by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Stephen A. Gilje .
1989 Spring: SUNY Research Semester
1988 Summer: SUNY Fellowship and Summer Grant, $4,000.
1967-71: Chancellor's Teaching Fellow, UCLA
1966: UCLA Art Council Graduate Grant for Summer Research

Publications

The Medieval Cult of Saints. Formations and Transformations, Cambridge University Press, 1994

Review, Aviad M. Kleinberg, Prophets in their Own Country. Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, Chicago, 1992, in: Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 70 (1995), pp. 643-45.

Review, Marcia Kupfer, Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France. The Politics of Narrative, Yale University Press, 1993, in: Studies in Iconography (August 1995).

"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," Europ„ische Skulptur im 12./13. Jahrhundert, ed. H. Beck and K. Hengevoss-Drkop, 2 vols., Frankfurt am Main, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 763-76, and vol. 2, pp. 508-519.

"Program and Power in the Glass of Reims," Kunstgeschichte: Richtung radikale Historisit„t? Eine Zwischenbilanz (Festschrift Otto-Karl Werckmeister), ed. Joan Weinstein and Wolfgang Kersten, (collection in preparation, typescript available)

"The Audiences for the Medieval Cult of Saints," Gesta XXX (1991), 3-15.

"Saint Cuthbert. The Post-Conquest Appropriation of an Anglo-Saxon Cult," Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts, ed. Paul Szarmach (in preparation for SUNY Press, 1996, typescript available).

"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. (Reviewed - C.M. Kauffmann, "English Romanesque Book Illumination: Changes in the Field 1974-1984 - available)

"Consecration and Investiture in the Life of Saint Amand," Art Bulletin 61 (1979), pp. 342-58.

In Preparation

Late Medieval Church-Building and Decoration in its Urban Setting, book-length MS incorporating studies on Vezelay, Santiago, Reims and Amiens. (Abstract and chapters available in typescript)

An Introduction to Spatial and Visual Culture in a Global Context. Book length alternative to surveys of "Western" or "World" art. (Abstract and chapters available in typescript)

"Santiago de Compostela in the Time of Diego Gelmirez" for Gesta

Papers and Panels

1996 Spring: Patterns in the Production of Medieval Cults of Saints, Symposium, Metropolitan Museum, NY: Saints and Power: The Cult of Relics in Medieval Aquitaine

1996 Spring: "Santiago in the Time of Diego GelmĦrez" for The Art of Medieval Iberia. 31st International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1995 Spring: Invited Participant Graham Foundation Symposia on Architecture History and Pedagogy: "Medieval Architecture, Representation, and Social Space," Chicago

1995 Winter: Two Public Lectures, Invited. University of Tel Aviv, Israel: "Reims and Amiens", "Methodological Approaches to the Study of Ecclesiastical Towns"

1994 Spring: Symposium Discussant: Medieval Art History --Now, organized by Otto Karl Werckmeister and Sandra Hindman, Northwestern University, April 29-30.

1994 Spring: "Patterns of Urban Unrest in Monastery and Cathedral Towns," for session: Maps of Authority: Conflict in Pre-Modern Urban Landscapes, organized by Annabel Wharton, Society of Architectural Historians

1994 Winter: "Program and Power in the Glass of Reims Cathedral," session on Reims organized by Meredith Lillich, College Art Association of America

1994 Winter: Opening exhibit at Hamilton College in conjunction with Colgate University: The Abbey of St. Gall: A Cultural Center, "St. Gall: Luxury Building in the Context of Carolingian Political Economy and Monastic Reform"

1993 Spring: "Jane Welch Williams, Bread, Wine, and Money. The Windows of the Trades at Chartres," session on recent literature on Chartres Cathedral organized by William W. Clark, 28th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1993 Spring: Medieval Academy of America, session organized: "Cathedrals and Their Towns"

1993 Spring: "Building and Decorating at Reims and Amiens," University of Arizona, Tucson

1993 Spring: Opening exhibit at SUNY Binghamton: The Abbey of St. Gall: A Cultural Center, "St. Gall: Luxury Building in the Context of Carolingian Political Economy and Monastic Reform"

1992 Fall: Invited participant in a roundtable discussion conducted by Jerrilynn Dodds and Daniel Walker on the Metropolitan Museum exhibit Al Andalus. The Art of Islamic Spain, in New York and Granada, Spain, and the Jewish Museum exhibit, Convivencia, New York City

1992 Spring: Invited paper "Social Formations, Building, and Decoration at Reims and Amiens," 4th Colloquium: Diskurse zur Geschichte der Eurpaischen Bildhauerkunst, sponsored by the Stadtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1992 Winter: College Art Association, Introduction to panel organized with Irene Bierman: Encounters among Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages

1991 Spring: Invited to be principal participant at the Claremont Humanities Colloquium (declined due to cancer treatment)

1991 Spring: Invited to comment on a panel on saints' lives in literature and art at the 27th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (declined due to cancer treatment)

1990 Fall: SUNY, Cortland, "Contested Spaces: The Medieval Veneration of Saints"

1990 Spring: Colgate University, "Social Settings for the Medieval Cult of Saints"

1990 Spring: College Art Association of America, "The Audiences for the Cult of Saints," Session: The Margins of Medieval Art.

1989 Spring: Commentary for Third Current Debates conference Globalization, Culture and the World System, organized by Anthony King, SUNY, Binghamton

1989 Spring: 24th International Medieval Congress Western Michigan University, "Saint Cuthbert: the post-Conquest Appropriation of an Anglo-Saxon Cult"

1989 Spring: Conference: Artistic Integration in Early Gothic Building, York University, Toronto and for a session of the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University: The Church and the People - Social Conflict and Cultural Response, "Artistic Integration Inside Cathedral Precincts, Social Consensus Outside?: the political structure and distribution of resources for late medieval building and decoration"

1989 Spring: New York University Institute of Fine Arts, invited "Amiens, a Model for Communal-Episcopal Cooperation?"

1988 Fall: Branner Forum, Columbia University and CEMERS, SUNY, "Formations and Transformations in the Cult of Saints: economic, social, and artistic organization"

1988 Spring: "Towards an Integrated Social and Economic history of the Cult of Saints and its Artistic Elaboration in the Middle Ages, The Total History of Medieval Art, Symposium, Northwestern University.

1988 Spring: "Deaths, Burials and Shrine Miracles: Instrumentality in Pictorial Hagiographies," session: The Cult of Saints: Image, Text, and content, 23rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1988 Spring: College Art Association of America. "Building at Reims and Amiens: Feudal Monopolies and Communal Constraints" for session: Large-Scale Building in the Middle Ages: Its Impact and Legacy

1988 Winter: "Amiens Cathedral. Building in a Communal Town," Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1987 Spring: "Building and Decorative Programs in Feudal Towns: Reims Cathedral," Canadian Medieval Association, York University, Toronto.

1987 Fall: "The Distribution and Character of Illustrated Saints' Lives in the Age of Pilgrimage," session: Saints in Text and Image, Annual Barnard Conference on the Middle Ages

1986 Summer: "Ritual, Image and Subordination in Thirteenth-Century Reims," World Art: Themes of Unity in Diversity, XXVI International Congress of the History of Art, Washington, D.C.

Professional Activities

Co-Organizer, College Art Association session Feb. 1992: Encounters among Muslim, Christian and Jewish Communities in the Middle Ages.

Board of Directors, International Center for Medieval Studies, 1990/92.

Nominating Committee, International Center for Medieval Studies, 1988/90.

Editorial Board, Review. A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations.

Organizing Committee, Conference: "Formation and Transformations: The Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," Center of Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghamton, Fall 1989.

Organizer, College Art Association, annual meeting, Spring 1988: Large-Scale Building in the Middle Ages: Its Impact and Legacy.

Organizer, Two sessions on the cult of saints, Kalamazoo, 1987

Co-Organizer, Getty Humanitites Center Archive on Pictorial Hagiographies

Reviewer, Abrams, Textbook Division

Reviewer, Art Bulletin, Speculum, University of Minnesota Press, Speculum, Studies in Iconography

Referee, Getty Humanities Center, Santa Monica: Subvention Grants, Postdoctoral Fellowships