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University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Rudolph, Conrad

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History of Art


Biography

Professor Conrad Rudolph has been a member of the board of editors of Speculum (Speculum is the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, and the leading journal of medieval studies in the United States) and Comitatus. He has acted as an invited nominator for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program, and as a reviewer for the John Simon Guggenheim and Getty Grant Foundations. He has served as a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Art History, of the Advisory Board of the series Companions to Art History (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford), and of the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). He is an elected Fellow of the Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education, of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; the University Honors Faculty Mentor of the Year at UCR (an award which recognizes exceptional teaching and guidance at the level of the individual student); and he has served as department chair twice.

Former Institution

University of Notre Dame

Degrees

Ph.D. Art History 1985

University of California, Los Angeles

M.A. Art History 1981

University of California, Los Angeles

B.A. Art History 1977

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant, 2002.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1994-1995.
Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant of the College Art Association, 1989.
Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Residence, 1987-1988.
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1986-1987.


Research Area

Medieval Art History with special interests in such topics as the social theory of medieval art, the ideological use of art, monasticism and art, the origin of Gothis art, and the art and social change.

Publications

"First, I Find the Center Point": Reading the Text of Hugh of Saint Victor's The Mystic Ark (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, publication date 2004; copyright and release 2006).

Pilgrimage to The End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004).

Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cīteaux Moralia in Job (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1997) (press nomination for the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America).

Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990) (press bestseller).

The "Things of Greater Importance": Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the Medieval Attitude Toward Art (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1990) (Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant of the College Art Association).

A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque & Gothic in Northern Europe, editor (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2006).