Sharon E.J. Gerstel
Education
Ph.D., Institute of fine Arts, New York University
Areas of Interest
Art history; religious studies; intersection of ritual and art; monumental painting
Publications
Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Archaeological, Liturgical and Theological Views on Religious Screens, East and West (Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA, 2007)
Medieval Messenia: in Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino, ed. J.Davis (Austin, TX, 1998), 210-42; Greek Translation: Pylos he Ammoudere (Athens, 2005)
The Byzantine Village Church: Observations on its Location and on Agricultural Aspects of its Program,” in Les villages dans l’Empire byzantin (IVe-XVe siècle), Réalités byzantines, XI, ed. C. Morrisson, J. Lefort, J.-P. Sodini (Paris, 2006)
The Chora Parekklesion, the Hope for a Peaceful Afterlife, and Monastic Devotional Practices” in The Kariye Camii Reconsidered, ed. H. A. Klein, R. G. Ousterhout, B. Pitarakis, Istanbul Research Institute Symposium Series 1 (Istanbul, 2011)
Awards
Arts Initiative Grant
J. Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Transdisciplinary Seed Grant, UCLA: “
Faculty Research Grant, UCLA
Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant
Foundation Fellowship
J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
General Research Board, University of Maryland
Foundation Fellowship
Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship
Kress Fellowship
Robert Lehman Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts
Kress Fellowship
Gennadius Fellowship American School of Classical Studies
Robert Lehman Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts