Robert Bork
is a professor of art history at the University of Iowa. His research emphasizes Gothic architectural design, particularly from a geometrical perspective. He has published the books Great Spires: Skyscrapers of the New Jerusalem (2003), Gotische Türme in Mitteleuropa (2008), The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (2011), and Late Gothic Architecture: Its Evolution, Extinction, and Reception (2018). A former president of AVISTA, he has edited four previous volumes in the AVISTA book series, including most recently The Analysis of Gothic Architecture: Studies in Memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon (2023).
Caroline Bruzelius
is Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at Duke University. Her research has explored Gothic architecture and urbanism on both sides of the Alps, from a variety of archaeological, social, and digital perspectives. Her many publications include The Thirteenth-Century Church at Saint-Denis (1985), The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266â1343 (2004), Preaching, Building, and Burying (2014), and Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City (2018). She was the founder and original director of Duke Universityâs Wired! Lab for Digital Visualization.
Meredith Cohen
is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research centers on French Gothic architecture, particularly in Paris. Her first monograph, The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris (2015) received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award. In 2003, she co-founded the International Medieval Society of Paris, for which she has edited a series of books. Her current research project, Paris Past and Present, undertaken with Kristine Tanton, aims to digitally reconstruct selected lost monuments of Gothic Paris, notably including the thirteenth-century Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain des Prés.
S. Diane Daussy
is a research associate at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Her research has explored medieval sculpture, architecture, workshop practice, and historiography. She is the author of Sculpter à Amiens en 1500 (2013) and the
Jennifer M. Feltman
is an associate professor of art history at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on Gothic sculptural programs. She is the editor of The North Transept of Reims Cathedral: Design, Construction, and Visual Programs (2016), and the co-editor, with Sarah Thompson, of The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture (2019). She has developed a 3D virtual reality experience of Reims Cathedral for classroom use, and she is using 3D modeling to document the sculptures of Notre-Dame in Paris as a member of the Chantier scientifique de Notre-Dame. Feltman is also the author of the forthcoming book Moral Theology and the Cathedral: Sculptural Programs of the Last Judgment in France, c.1200-1240.
Erin Hulburt
is an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland pursuing a dual degree in Architecture and Studio Art, while working closely with her mentor Joseph Williams on the study of French Gothic roof structures and the procedural logic of their design.
Maile Hutterer
is an associate professor in the College of Design at the University of Oregon, and the vice-president of AVISTA. Her research focuses on the architecture and embellishment of ecclesiastical buildings in high and late medieval France. She is the author of Framing the Church: the social and artistic power of buttresses in French Gothic Architecture (2019), and she co-edited with George Brooks The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic Monuments, for the AVISTA book series.
Matthew Reeve
is a professor of art history and Queenâs National Scholar at Queenâs University. He has published widely on medieval art and its afterlife in modernity, writing Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy and Reform (2008) and Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole (2020), which won the Historians of British Art Book Prize in 2021. In addition, he has edited books on related subjects, including Reading Gothic
Lisa Reilly
is Commonwealth Professor in Architectural History at the University of Virginiaâs School of Architecture. Her many publications on medieval art include The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition (2020), and An Architectural History of Peterborough Cathedral (1997). In exploring the modern legacy of medieval architecture, she co-authored Vassar College: The Campus Guide (2004) and co-edited Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings (2017). Her current research project involves the stained glass of the late medieval parish church of St. Michael le Belfrey, in York, England.
Rebecca Smith
is an assistant professor of art history and director of the Associate in Fine Arts program at Wake Technical Community College. Her research considers Gothic architecture and design, with a particular emphasis on Reims Cathedral, the subject of her dissertation at the University of Iowa and several subsequent articles including âRevisiting the Reims High Vaults,â in Robert Bork (ed) The Analysis of Gothic Architecture: Studies in Memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon (2023). An AVISTA board member, Smith is dedicated to exploring the uses of digital technology in research and in the classroom.
Zachary Stewart
is an associate professor in the School of Architecture at Texas A&M. His research focuses on the buildings, cities, and landscapes of medieval Britain. Stewartâs current book project, Collaborative Gothic: Building the Parish Church in Late Medieval England, investigates the parish church as a vehicle for innovative material production during the two centuries between the Black Death and the Reformation. Stewart is co-editor, with Amy E. Gillette, of The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries (2023).
Kyle Sweeney
is an associate professor of art history at Winthrop University. His research focuses on the relationships between Late Gothic architecture, urban space and ceremonial, and shifting social constructs in northern Europe around 1500. His recent publications have focused on issues related to periodization,
Kristine Tanton
is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Montreal. Her research focuses on two principal areas: the dynamic relationship among sculpture, epigraphy, architecture, and ritual activity in the Middle Ages; and the material processes in medieval art and architecture, specifically seen through 3D reconstructions of medieval monuments. With Meredith Cohen, she has developed the Paris Past and Present project, notably developing and interpreting the lost thirteenth-century Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain des Prés. In addition, she is preparing a book, Marking Space with Text and Image: The Inscribed Capital in Romanesque France, 1080â1160.
Sarah Thompson
is an associate professor in the School of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and treasurer of AVISTA. Her research addresses concepts of Gothic, the medieval architectural design process, the role of Saint-Denis as a French national monument, and the functions of Gothic ruins. With Jennifer Feltman, she co-edited The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture (2019). Her current book project analyzes the postmedieval visual representation of Gothic architecture.
Arnaud Timbert
is a professor of art history at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. His research explores French Gothic architecture and its modern reception, particularly from archaeological, technical, and historiographical perspectives. His publications include the books Le chevet de La Madeleine de Vézelay et le premier gothique bourguignon (2009), Restaurer et bâtir: Viollet-le-Duc en Bourgogne (2013), and Viollet-le-Duc et Pierrefonds: Histoire dâun chantier (2017), which won the Prix du jury de la Fondation Napoléon. He has also published on the cathedrals of Chartres, Noyon, and Paris, and his many edited volumes include Louis Grodecki, correspondance choisie (1933â1982), published in 2020.
Joseph Williams
is an assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Maryland. His research concerns the architecture of the medieval Mediterranean, with