Sheila Bonde
is Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of History of Art and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University. Together with Clark Maines, she has published extensively on the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, and on monastic architecture more generally. She collaborated with Robert Mark in the Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution project.
Robert Bork
is Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa and former president of AVISTA. His research principally concerns the history of Gothic architectural design, especially from a geometrical perspective. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton under the supervision of Robert Mark, and his current work depends heavily on laser scan data collected by Andrew Tallon.
Lindsay S. Cook
is Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at Penn State University. Her current research focuses on Notre-Dame of Paris, medievalism in African American architecture, and the digital humanities. She studied with Andrew Tallon as an undergraduate at Vassar College and subsequently contributed to the Mapping Gothic France project.
Michael Davis
is Professor of Art History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. He has published widely on the history of French Gothic architecture, with a particular emphasis on the cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand and related churches in southern France. He collaborated with Robert Mark in the Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution project.
James Hillson
is currently a Teaching Associate in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge and an Honorary Research Associate in the Liverpool School of Architecture. From 2019–2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher on the Tracing the Past: English Medieval Vaults project developed by Alexandrina Buchanan and Nicholas Webb, which applies geometrical analysis techniques to laser-scans of Gothic vaults. He has also published on monuments such as Reims Cathedral and Saint Stephen’s Chapel at Westminster.
is Assistant Professor and Director of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies at Florida State University. His scholarship considers Gothic France, Byzantine Cyprus, and Native North America. He is currently developing a monograph on the monastery of Orbais and its relationship to religious, political, ecological, and economic landscapes.
Peter Kurmann
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research considers Gothic architecture and sculpture from France and Switzerland to Germany and Central Europe. He has written and edited many books, including a monograph on the façade of Reims Cathedral.
Clark Maines
is Professor of Art History Emeritus at Wesleyan University. Together with Sheila Bonde, he has published extensively on the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, and on monastic architecture more generally. He collaborated with Robert Mark in the Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution project.
Ethan Mark
son of Robert Mark, is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese and Asian History in the Japanese and Asian Studies programs at Leiden University.
Stephen Murray
is Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History Emeritus in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His many publications on French Gothic architecture include monographs on the cathedrals of Amiens, Beauvais, and Troyes. He served as graduate mentor to Andrew Tallon, with whom he led the Mapping Gothic France project.
Sergio Sanabria
is Associate Professor of Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University. His publications emphasize the technical and geometrical aspects of Gothic construction, both in 13th-century France and in 16th-century Spain. Robert Mark was one of his principal graduate mentors at Princeton University.
Dany Sandron
is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Paris. He has edited and published many books on French Gothic art and architecture, including
Ellen Shortell
is Professor Emerita of the History of Art at the Massachusetts College of Art.
She has held officer positions in both AVISTA and the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, while publishing on the history of French Gothic architecture and stained glass, especially at the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin.
Elizabeth B. Smith
is Associate Professor of Art History Emerita at Penn State University. Her recent research explores Italian Gothic architecture, with a particular emphasis on the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella; she is the author of Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence. She previously collaborated with Robert Mark in the Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution project.
Rebecca Smith
is Assistant Professor of Art History at Wake Technical Community College. She completed her dissertation on Reims Cathedral at the University of Iowa under Robert Bork’s supervision, after studying with Elizabeth B. Smith and Stefaan Van Liefferinge.
Arnaud Timbert
is Professor to Medieval Art History at the University of Picardy Jules Verne. He has written and edited many books on French Gothic architecture, including its post-medieval reception, often emphasizing technical and archaeological approaches. Several of these studies were undertaken in collaboration with Andrew Tallon.
Stefaan Van Liefferinge
is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Media Center in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His research emphasizes the application of high-technology approaches to the study of Gothic architecture, while his work at the Media Center builds on the contributions of Stephen Murray and Andrew Tallon.
Nancy Wu
is Senior Managing Educator Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She launched the AVISTA book series by editing an anthology of essays on Gothic architectural geometry. Her own publications include a catalog of the medieval collections at the Cloisters, and many essays related to Reims Cathedral.