Professor Genevra Kornbluth
Art of the Medieval West

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211-D Art-Sociology Building
Office: Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
(301) 405-1482
Email: gkornblu@deans.umd.edu

Genevra Kornbluth (A.B. Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) devotes her scholarship to the art of medieval western Europe. Her publications examine a range of issues, from women's patronage to technical processes. She is the author of Engraved Gems of the Carolingian Empire, a book on previously little-known sculpture from the ninth and tenth centuries, and of numerous articles (see publications). She is currently writing a book entitled "Protecting the body, building the mind: gemstone amulets, divination, and the construction of identity in Early Medieval Europe".

Professor Kornbluth's academic awards include a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; a visitorship at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; support from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Association; a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities; and a Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship. Kornbluth serves as editor for the newsletter of the International Center of Medieval Art.