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Photo of Associate Professor Elizabeth Braford Smith at Cistercian Monastery of Chorin in Germany.

Elizabeth Bradford Smith
Associate Professor of Art History

222 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-4880
exs11@psu.edu

Photo: Dr. Smith at Cistercian Monastery of Chorin in Germany.

Education
Ph.D. and M.A. in the history of medieval art and architecture (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Licence d'Histoire de l'Art et d'Archéologie (Université de Strasbourg, France)

Dr. Smith teaches courses in Western medieval art and architecture. Before coming to Penn State in 1982, she taught at Oberlin College. Her general area of focus is the architecture and sculpture of France and Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries. She has published on Romanesque sculpture in England and the Low Countries, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in the Abruzzi region of Italy, and structure in French Romanesque and Italian Gothic architecture. In collaboration with graduate students in the Department of Art History and the Palmer Museum of Art, she curated an exhibition and published a catalogue on Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940 (supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts). Her current research project is a study of the design and construction of the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, for which she has received fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Graham Foundation. She is a recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching.

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