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Shirin Fozi (Jones)

Shirin Fozi and Beatrice Kitzinger examine the Small Bernward Gospels (Dom-Museum, Hildesheim) during installation of the "Cross References" exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks, March 2011. (Photograph by Gerhard Lutz)

Office: Kresge 3-400
s-fozi@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Shirin Fozi (Ph.D Harvard University, 2010) spends as much time as possible examining medieval European art, and her research is focused on sculpture from the ninth through twelfth centuries across the high medieval span of the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland). Her dissertation, which was recently awarded the annual prize of the Europaeisches Romanik Zentrum (Merseburg, Germany), addressed the rise of figural tomb effigies in the twelfth century.

Together with the publication of her dissertation work, current projects include "Striking Images: Christ on the Cross and the Emergence of Monumental Sculpture," a volume of essays co-edited with Gerhard Lutz and Marietta Cambareri (Brepols/ Harvey Miller), and a new study on the reception of Mediterranean luxury art in Romanesque Germany. Two essays on collecting medieval art in America are also scheduled to appear in edited volumes sponsored by the International Medieval Society, Paris and the Ringling Museum of Art.

Prior to joining Northwestern as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Art (2010-2012), Fozi also co-organized an exhibition of Byzantine Art at Dumbarton Oaks, and lectured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.