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Past Member

Alicia Walker

Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Medieval Art and Architectural History
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Alicia Walker studies medieval material and visual culture with a focus on Byzantium and the medieval Islamic world. Her primary fields of research include intercultural artistic connections across Afro-Eurasia from the ninth to thirteenth centuries, and gender issues in the art and material culture of late antique and medieval Byzantium.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
2004
Harvard University
M.A.
1998
Bryn Mawr College
B.A.
1994

Honors

2008-2009
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow
2015
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
2008
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Scholar, Program of Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

Appointments

Bryn Mawr College
2021
Professor
Bryn Mawr College
2016–2021
Associate Professor
Bryn Mawr College
2011–2016
Assistant Professor
Washington University in St Louis
2006–2011
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
2004–2006
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow